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Jean Baudrillard
Av Emmanuelle Fantin, Bran Nicol
Häftad, 2025
166 kr
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Jean Baudrillard, once hailed as a ‘historian of the future’, remains a vital figure for understanding modern life. Famous for ideas like ‘simulation’ and the ‘hyperreal’, linked to postmodernism and The Matrix, Baudrillard was both celebrated and controversial, known for bold pronouncements about …
Johannes Brahms
Av John Worthen
Häftad, 2026
153 kr
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Johannes Brahms is often cast as repressed or emotionally distant. This nuanced biography by acclaimed biographer John Worthen reveals a more complex and human figure – brilliant, passionate and deeply committed both to his art and to those he loved. Brahms’s lifelong devotion to Clara Schumann …
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Av Lara Vetter
Häftad, 2023
172 kr
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961) was one of the first writers of free verse in English, best known for her sparse Imagist poems. For over forty years she wrote poetry that resurrected forgotten ancient goddesses, and autobiographical prose that explored her trauma, her desires and the unique …
Gustav Mahler
Häftad, 2025
153 kr
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Gustav Mahler’s status as an icon of fin-de-siècle Viennese music is assured, with his works now staples of the concert repertoire. His life story has been told in numerous biographies, films and novels, yet he remains an ambiguous, provocative figure. Mahler was a composer who challenged musical …
John Clare
Häftad, 2026
150 kr
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John Clare’s life has often been told by casting him in various parts – rural genius, thwarted lover, environmentalist, lunatic poet. This biography revisits those familiar stories with a fresh perspective, setting Clare’s own words alongside a sharp reappraisal of his times. Drawing from his …
Lenin
Av Lars T. Lih
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
176 kr
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Lenin (1870-1924) was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party and founder of the Soviet Union. A key revolutionary thinker who spent much of his 30-year political career in exile, he went from relative obscurity to world fame in 1917 when the October Revolution made his party responsible for …
Antoni Gaudí
Häftad, 2024
166 kr
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The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí was a contradictory figure: deeply religious and politically right-wing, he nevertheless created revolutionary, lyrical buildings. This book explores Gaudí’s life, work and influences, from Catalan nationalism to the Industrial Revolution. Michael …
Hannah Arendt
Häftad, 2021
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
185 kr
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Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the …
Friedrich Nietzsche
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of his life. The book traces Nietzsche’s development from outstanding classical scholar to cultural critic, who measured Imperial Germany by the standards of ancient …
Albert Camus
Häftad, 2015
176 kr
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One of France’s most high-profile writers, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during a career cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. From humble origins in a European family living in colonial Algeria, Camus established himself as a successful novelist, …
Fernando Pessoa
Häftad, 2024
162 kr
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As a young man, Fernando Pessoa wrote ‘be plural like the universe.’ Staying true to this, he went on to invent more than one hundred fictional alter-egos, which he called heteronyms. This biography, probing Pessoa’s experience and imagination of reality, navigates the poet’s early days in Lisbon …
D. H. Lawrence
Av David Ellis
Häftad, 2025
153 kr
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This book offers a concise yet comprehensive look at D. H. Lawrence’s turbulent life and writing career. Tracing his journey from a mining village outside Nottingham to his death at 44 years old in the South of France, it provides fresh perspectives on his major works. David Ellis covers all …
Charles Bukowski
Häftad, 2012
187 kr
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Born in Germany in 1920 and raised in the United States, the poet, short-story writer and novelist Charles Bukowski occupies a unique place in world literature. Bukowski’s prolific output sits at the confluence of a number of major literary, creative and intellectual traditions; this new …
Fidel Castro
Av Nick Caistor
Häftad, 2013
162 kr
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The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is one of the most written-about men in the world today. Most approaches to his life are either glowing hagiographies, or critical rants in which he is portrayed as a dictator who has kept the island of Cuba under his heel. By contrast, Nick Caistor brings …
Marcel Proust
Av Adam Watt
Häftad, 2013
333 kr
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Marcel Proust (1871–1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), his magnum opus. Only four of its seven volumes had been published by the time Proust died; he did not live to see it become one of the most important literary works of the twentieth …
Richard Wagner
Av Ray Furness
Häftad, 2013
186 kr
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With their complex textures, rich harmonies and elaborate use of leitmotifs, the operas of Richard Wagner remain some of the most influential – and contentious – in the history of the genre. But while Wagner won enormous renown for what he achieved on the stage, his life was marked by political …
Frida Kahlo
Critical Lives
Häftad, 2013
231 kr
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Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was 22; he was 43. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who ‘dabbles in art’, she went on to produce brilliant paintings, but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost …
Carl Jung
Av Paul Bishop
Häftad, 2014
333 kr
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), as well as being one of the pioneers of psychology, is one of the most controversial of thinkers: in spite of being largely responsible for the introduction of now-familiar psychological terms such as ‘extrovert’ and ‘introvert’, Jung has often been sidelined, …
Yves Klein
Av Nuit Banai
Häftad, 2014
176 kr
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Among his many captivating exploits, the French artist Yves Klein (1928–1962) invented his own brand of colour: the inimitable International Klein Blue. Denounced as a charlatan and feted as a mystic, Klein scandalized the art world with his enthusiastic embrace of the highs and lows of post-war …
Leon Trotsky
Häftad, 2015
333 kr
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There are few more divisive names in modern history than that of the diehard revolutionary Leon Trotsky. To some he was a hypocritical totalitarian, while to many others he was a revolutionary liberator, an idealist determined to crush an outdated, oppressive dynasty in order to replace it with a …
Antonin Artaud
Häftad, 2016
176 kr
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Poet. Actor. Matinee idol. Playwright. Theatre theoretician. Artist. Orientalist. Surrealist. Asylum inmate. Drug addict. Electroshock patient. Antonin Artaud. This biography, exploring the life of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers, reveals the …
Paul Cézanne
Av Jon Kear
Häftad, 2016
220 kr
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Few artists have exerted such an influence on modern art as Paul Cézanne. Picasso, Braque and Matisse all acknowledged a profound debt to his painting, and many historians regard him as the father of modernism. This new biography reexamines Cézanne’s life and art, discussing the central events and …
Ernest Hemingway
Av Verna Kale
Häftad, 2016
176 kr
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Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, an oversized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of the twentieth century, set against such grand backdrops as the bullrings of Spain, the savannahs of Africa and the rivers …
Arthur Koestler
Häftad, 2017
162 kr
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Born in Budapest in 1905, Arthur Koestler was a pivotal European writer and intellectual who inspired, provoked and intrigued in equal measure. Koestler wrote enduring works of reportage and memoir but he is most famous for his political novel Darkness at Noon, which received widespread …
Gilles Deleuze
Häftad, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
176 kr
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Gilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze’s remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work emerged. She considers how his life and philosophical developments resonate with historical, political …
Joseph Beuys
Häftad, 2017
220 kr
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Joseph Beuys is arguably the most important and most controversial German artist of the late twentieth century, not least because his persona is interwoven with Germany’s fascist past. This book illuminates two defining threads in Beuys’s life and art: the centrality of trauma, and his sustained …
Jean-François Lyotard
Av Kiff Bamford
Häftad, 2017
176 kr
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Jean-François Lyotard is one of the most important, and complex, French thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, the multi-faceted nature of Lyotard’s work has often been obscured by its sometimes problematic association with …
Leonard Bernstein
Häftad, 2018
162 kr
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Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music’s most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades, he conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras and composed scores for landmark musicals such as West Side Story. With an iron self-belief, he negotiated risky …
Mark Twain
Häftad, 2018
162 kr
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born on 30 November 1835 in Monroe County, Missouri, was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Twain freely adapted the incidents of his life and the stories he heard as a youth to embellish his fiction, as well as his …
Arthur Rimbaud
Av Seth Whidden
Häftad, 2018
186 kr
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Before he had turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud’s poetry important, argues Seth Whidden, is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity and exploration.Almost all of Rimbaud’s poems …
