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“alina clej”

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  • Subjects and Simulations

    Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe

    by Gary E. Aylesworth, Thomas P. Brockelman, Alina Clej, Damian Ward Hey, Drew A. Hyland, Basil O'Neill, Henk Oosterling, Stephen David Ross, Katherine Rudolph, Massimo Verdicchio, Martin G. Weiss, Robin May Schott, James R. Watson, Bettina Bergo ...
    Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real reasserts itself in an age of every more fragmented media, and how art and literature give us ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • A Genealogy of the Modern Self

    Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing

    by Alina Clej ...
    As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Madness and Civilization

    A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Michel Foucault's most admired book is an incisive history of changing attitudes toward mental illness of Western Europe between 1500 and 1800.Madness and Civilization investigates the archeology of madness, tracing shifting perceptions through changes in the culture, laws, politics, philosophy, and medical practices of the West. In the late Middle Ages, insanity was still considered part of ... Read more

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  • Frankenstein (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Series series Norton Critical Editions
    The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work.This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that ... Read more

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  • The Conquest of Happiness

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of ‘The Happy Man’, this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as ... Read more

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  • Basic Writings of Existentialism

    Edited by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon MarinoBasic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly ... Read more

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  • Beyond Good And Evil, Prelude To A Philosophy Of The Future (Mobi Classics)

    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Helen Zimmern (Translator) ...
    Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886.It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, ... Read more

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  • The Temptation to Exist

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. ... Read more

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  • Works Of William James: The Varieties Of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, A Pluralistic Universe, Meaning Of Truth And More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by William James ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes ... Read more

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  • Literature and Evil

    by Georges Bataille ...
    Translated by Alastair Hamilton ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and ... Read more

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  • The Liberal Imagination

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal ... Read more

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  • Anathemas and Admirations

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations—which he calls "admirations"—of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorisms—his "anathemas"—he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD