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Eros the Bittersweet
An Essay (Nobel Prize Winner)
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2027
189 kr
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZENamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek …
Muqaddimah
An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition
Häftad, 2015
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
275 kr
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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 …
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
The Last Soviet Generation
Häftad, 2026
250 kr
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“[An] extraordinary book.”—Brian Eno • “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”—Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir • “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art.”—Slavoj Žižek • “Extraordinary and brilliant.”—Adam Curtis, director of HyperNormalisationA …
Anatomy of Criticism
Four Essays
Av Northrop Frye, David Damrosch
Häftad, 2020
263 kr
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A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for …
Open Society and Its Enemies
Häftad, 2020
281 kr
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A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual …
Twelve Who Ruled
The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
Av R. R. Palmer
Häftad, 2017
271 kr
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The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating …
Shamanism
Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Häftad, 2020
319 kr
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The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half …
From Caligari to Hitler
A Psychological History of the German Film
Av Siegfried Kracauer, Leonardo Quaresima
Häftad, 2019
271 kr
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An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German …
Evil in Modern Thought
An Alternative History of Philosophy
Av Susan Neiman
Häftad, 2015
246 kr
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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 …
Faust I & II
Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition
Av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stuart Atkins
Häftad, 2014
232 kr
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One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of …
Origins of the Kabbalah
Av Gershom Scholem, R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
Häftad, 2019
264 kr
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With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in …
Great Divergence
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Häftad, 2021
183 kr
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A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the WestThe Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as …
Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Häftad, 2026
272 kr
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"A fascinating look into the origins of modern man."—Publishers Weekly"Authoritative."—New York Times • "A masterpiece."—Wilson QuarterlyUnraveling the mystery surrounding the ancient mother tongue that gave us English and other languages spoken by half the worldRoughly half the world's population …
Two Cheers for Anarchism
Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
Häftad, 2025
161 kr
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“One of the world’s most widely read social scientists” (New York Times) offers his most personal and accessible book—a celebration of how ordinary people can resist oppression and injusticeJames Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to …
Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
Häftad, 2018
264 kr
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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 …
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2017
221 kr
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When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror …
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eric A Blackall m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
244 kr
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An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novelWilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795–1796), Goethe’s second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre—perhaps the first Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth …
Fearful Symmetry
A Study of William Blake
Häftad, 2025
254 kr
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The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readersSince it was first published, Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry has established itself as the defining commentary on the poetic vision of William Blake. Frye gives …
Truth and Truthfulness
An Essay in Genealogy
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value …
Mimesis
The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition
Av Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said
Häftad, 2013
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303 kr
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More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations …
King's Two Bodies
A Study in Medieval Political Theology
Häftad, 2016
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311 kr
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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 …
Men, Women, and Chain Saws
Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
Häftad, 2015
178 kr
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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 …
Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Av Angus Deaton
Häftad, 2024
192 kr
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A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by …
Difference
How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
Av Scott Page
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups—and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? …
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Häftad, 2022
259 kr
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A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political lifeJustice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice, critically analyzing basic concepts underlying most theories …
States of Injury
Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
Av Wendy Brown
Häftad, 2025
215 kr
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A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity. Without condemning identity politics, Wendy Brown carefully probes …
Addiction by Design
Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Häftad, 2025
278 kr
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An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tacticsRecent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, …
Global City
New York, London, Tokyo
Häftad, 2025
177 kr
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In her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the emerging global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel changes. The book reorients the way we think about how cities shape and are shaped by globalization and …
Eros the Bittersweet
An Essay (Nobel Prize Winner)
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2023
213 kr
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZENamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek …
Nietzsche
Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Häftad, 2013
262 kr
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This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann …