The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre ...Show more
Gaia and Philosophy by Lynn Margulis; Anicka Yi (Illustrator); Dorion Sagan (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own en ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared ...Show more
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out by Slavoj Žižek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chapli ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work- a political, philosophical, and spiritual treatiseOne of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time ...Show more
Fragments Of An Anarchist Anthropology by GRAEBER DAVID
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy--everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanti ...Show more
Existentialism is a Humanism by SARTRE JEAN PAUL
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ("Existentialism Is a Humanism") was to expound his philosophy as a form of "existentialism," a term much band ...Show more
The Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Granta Editions
Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
The Expulsion of the Other - Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. ...Show more
What Is Power? by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life.Power is co ...Show more
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: General Adult
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have ofte ...Show more