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Eros The Bittersweet - An Essay

by Anne Carson

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 The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently discussed effect of literacy on Greek civilization,
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The King'S Two Bodies - A Study In Medieval Political Theology

by Ernst Kantorowicz

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 Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, "The king is dead. Long live the king." In The King's Two Bodie
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How Propaganda Works

by Jason Stanley

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 How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention.
The Global City - New York, London, Tokyo

by Saskia Sassen

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 In her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centres of the global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel changes.
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Walden - 150th Anniversary Edition

by Henry David Thoreau

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 One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's mat
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Men, Women, And Chain Saws - Gender In The Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition

by Carol J. Clover

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 From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditiona
The Muqaddimah - An Introduction To History - Abridged Edition

by Ibn Khaldun

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 The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography,
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After The End Of Art - Contemporary Art And The Pale Of History - Updated Edition

by Arthur C. Danto

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 Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, one of the best-known art critics of his time, presents radical insights into art's irrevocable de
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States Of Injury - Power And Freedom In Late Modernity

by Wendy Brown

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 A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists
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The Great Escape - Health, Wealth, And The Origins Of Inequality

by Angus Deaton

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 The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. This book tells the story of how, some parts of the world began to experience sustained progress, and set the stage for unequal world.
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Long Live Queer Nightlife - How The Closing Of Gay Bars Sparked A Revolution

by Amin Ghaziani

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 It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe - but it's definitely not the last dance.
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Eros The Bittersweet - An Essay

by Anne Carson

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 The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently discussed effect of literacy on Greek civilization,
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Passionate Enlightenment - Women In Tantric Buddhism

by Miranda Shaw

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 This treatise challenges Western assumptions concerning medieval Tantric Buddhism. The author draws on interviews and archival research to demonstrate that Tantric beliefs promoted co-operative relationships between men and women and relied upon women as a source of spiritual insight.
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The Dehumanization Of Art And Other Essays On Art, Culture, And Literature

by José Ortega y Gasset

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 A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." The essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, grappled with the ne
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Zen And Japanese Culture

by D. T. Suzuki

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 Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relations
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The Therapy Of Desire - Theory And Practice In Hellenistic Ethics

by Martha C. Nussbaum

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 The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tr
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The Rhetorical Presidency - New Edition

by Jeffrey K. Tulis

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 Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presidency makes the case that this development, born at the outset of the twentieth century, is the product of conscious political choices that fundamentally transformed the presidency and the meaning of Amer
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Leviathan And The Air-Pump - Hobbes, Boyle, And The Experimental Life

by Simon Schaffer e Steven Shapin

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 Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly inve
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Philosophy And The Mirror Of Nature - Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rorty

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 Includes the previously unpublished essay "The philosopher as expert."
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The Tao Of Architecture

by Amos Ih Tiao Chang

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 Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea, developing the parallel with the aid of architectural drawings and Chinese paintings. Now with a new foreword by David Wang, this book reveals the vit
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The Lives Of Animals

by J.M. Coetzee

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 The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.
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The Machiavellian Moment - Florentine Political Thought And The Atlantic Republican Tradition

by John Greville Agard Pocock

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 Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that
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Racism - A Short History

by George M. Fredrickson

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 Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particu
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Evil In Modern Thought - An Alternative History Of Philosophy

by Susan Neiman

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 Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman exp
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