Humphrey's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:52:18 -0800 60 Humphrey's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Faust 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Humphrey 5 3.90 1808 Faust
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]]> <![CDATA[Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1]]> 325785 Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital.]]> 1152 Karl Marx 0140445684 Humphrey 5 4.28 1867 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Oeuvres Complètes de Charles Baudelaire (Éd.1868-1870) (Litterature) (French Edition)]]> 22683927
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]]> <![CDATA[Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur (Kritische Ausgabe Bd. 6)]]> 21471928 Friedrich Schlegel Humphrey 4 3.67 1815 Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur (Kritische Ausgabe Bd. 6)
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]]> La pensée et le mouvant 3299881 La pensée et le mouvant (translated here as The Creative Mind), is a masterly autobiography of his philosophical method. Through essays and lectures written between 1903 and 1923, Bergson retraces how and why he became a philosopher, and crafts a fascinating critique of philosophy itself. Until it leaves its false paths, he demonstrates, philosophy will remain only a wordy dialectic that surmounts false problems.
With masterful skill and intensity, Bergson shows that metaphysics and science mustĚýbe rooted in experience for philosophy to become a genuine search for truth. And in the quest for unanswered questions, the spiritual dimension of human life and the importance of intuitionĚýmust be emphasized. A source of inspiration for physicists as well as philosophers, Bergson's introduction to metaphysics reveals a philosophy that is always on the move, blending man's spiritual drive with his mastery of the material world.]]> 64 Henri Bergson 272984855X Humphrey 3 4.00 1934 La pensĂ©e et le mouvant
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]]> <![CDATA[Les Chants de Maldoror et autres textes]]> 262308 Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9782253160731.

Lorsqu’en 1869, sous le pseudonyme de Lautréamont, Isidore Ducasse fait imprimer Les Chants de Maldoror, c’est un texte inclassable que le jeune poète de vingt-trois ans offre aux lecteurs. Cette épopée de la peur, des ténèbres et du mal, qui brandit son attirail de cruautés et fait sourdre un fond de terreur infantile dans les amples strophes de ses six chants, demeura à peu près sans écho à sa parution : il fallut donc attendre sa redécouverte par les surréalistes pour que ce livre où s’inaugure la transgression moderne prît sa vraie place. L� année suivante, les Poésies, dont on ignore si l’édition fut diffusée, démentaient leur titre en proposant, écrites en prose, un ensemble de maximes et de réflexions, acerbes parfois mais aiguës, sur la littérature et la morale. Le livre fut-il alors lu ? Quelques mois plus tard, Ducasse mourait mystérieusement.]]> 415 Comte de Lautréamont Humphrey 5 4.22 1869 Les Chants de Maldoror et autres textes
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]]> <![CDATA[Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America]]> 850104 Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of "scenes" ranging from the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom.

While attentive to the performance of power--the terrible spectacles of slaveholders' dominion and the innocent amusements designed to abase and pacify the enslaved--and the entanglements of pleasure and terror in these displays of mastery, Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance, redress and transformation embodied in black performance and everyday practice.

This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery, emergent notions of individual will and responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery and freedom. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.]]> 296 Saidiya Hartman 0195089847 Humphrey 5 4.63 1997 Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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]]> <![CDATA[Les États et empires de la lune � Les États et empires du soleil]]> 1424742 432 Cyrano de Bergerac 2070425010 Humphrey 4 3.28 1657 Les États et empires de la lune — Les États et empires du soleil
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]]> <![CDATA[Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke. Interpretationen.]]> 501534 248 Rainer Maria Rilke 3150175100 Humphrey 3 3.00 1978 Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke. Interpretationen.
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]]> <![CDATA[Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden]]> 3917283 522 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3458322752 Humphrey 5 3.53 1821 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden
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]]> Vor dem Fest 21417348
Niemand will den Einbruch ins Haus der Heimat beobachtet haben. Das Dorfarchiv steht aber offen. Doch nicht das, was gestohlen wurde, sondern das, was entkommen ist, treibt die Schlaflosen um. Alte Geschichten, Sagen und Märchen ziehen mit den Menschen um die Häuser. Sie fügen sich zum Roman einer langen Nacht, zu einem Mosaik des Dorflebens, in dem Alteingesessene und Zugezogene, Verstorbene und Lebende, Handwerker, Rentner und edle Räuber in Fußballtrikots aufeinandertreffen. Sie alle möchten etwas zu Ende bringen, in der Nacht vor dem Fest.]]> 316 Saša Stanišić 3630872433 Humphrey 4 3.73 2014 Vor dem Fest
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]]> <![CDATA[L'esclave vieil homme et le molosse]]> 443595 Ainsi m'est parvenue l'histoire de cet esclave vieil homme, de son Maître-béké et du molosse qu'on lança à ses trousses. Une histoire à grands sillons d'histoires variantes, en chants de langue créole, en jeux de langue française et de parlures rêvées. Seules de proliférantes mémoires pourraient en suivre les emmêlements. Ici, soucieux de ma parole, je ne saurais aller qu'en un rythme léger flottant sur leurs musiques...»]]> 160 Patrick Chamoiseau 2070408736 Humphrey 5 3.84 1997 L'esclave vieil homme et le molosse
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]]> High Art Lite 2589812
But has it done so at the price of dumbing art down, reducing it to the level of any other consumer enterprise, and losing what is distinctive about art? Other than as publicity-fodder how seriously does it take the new audience that is so effectively courted? In this accessible book, Julian Stallabrass has written a sustained analysis of the British art scene, exploring the reasons for its popularity, the altered structure of the art world, and examining in detail the work of the leading figures. He also explores the reasons for art criticism’s so far limited purchase on this art.

Previous books about this subject have been either collections of essays or fan books, which try to aid acolytes hoping to navigate the art world. High Art Lite is the first sustained analysis of British art in the 1990s, and Stallabrass shows that, whatever we might think of the art itself, it raises fascinating questions about the relation of art to mass culture, the role of art in consumer society, the character of a national art, and the end of postmodernism.]]> 352 Julian Stallabrass 1859847218 Humphrey 4 3.88 2000 High Art Lite
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]]> Spuren. ( Werkausgabe, 1). 2318498 287 Ernst Bloch 351828150X Humphrey 4 3.40 1930 Spuren. ( Werkausgabe, 1).
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]]> <![CDATA[Das Elend der Philosophie: Antwort auf Proudhons »Philosophie des Elends« (German Edition)]]> 20905998 118 Karl Marx 1495996506 Humphrey 5 3.80 Das Elend der Philosophie: Antwort auf Proudhons »Philosophie des Elends« (German Edition)
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]]> Maximes 15580641 424 François de La Rochefoucauld 2743303026 Humphrey 5 3.75 1665 Maximes
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]]> Mesure de nos jours 651215 Auschwitz et après. Comment as-tu fait en revenant ? Comment ont-ils fait, les rescapés des camps, pour se remettre à vivre, pour reprendre la vie dans ses plis ? C'est la question qu'on se pose, qu'on n'ose pas leur poser. Avec beaucoup d'autres questions. Car si l'on peut comprendre comment tant de déportés sont morts là-bas, on ne comprend pas, ni comment quelques-uns ont survécu, ni surtout comment ces survivants ont pu redevenir des vivants. Dans Mesure de nos jours, Charlotte Delbo essaie de répondre, pour elle-même et pour d'autres, hommes et femmes, à qui elle prête sa voix.]]> 214 Charlotte Delbo 2707304034 Humphrey 5 4.51 1970 Mesure de nos jours
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]]> <![CDATA[The Works of George Berkeley Volume 1]]> 20269456 150 George Berkeley 1230298347 Humphrey 3 3.00 The Works of George Berkeley Volume 1
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]]> Sämtliche Erzählungen 1944696 487 Ingeborg Bachmann 3492239862 Humphrey 5 4.22 1992 Sämtliche Erzählungen
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I have to admit, this collection began a bit slow for my tastes. The stories in the first section of the four (that is, the first 84 pages) did not cohere and move in a way I found formally satisfying. I put down the book for a month to read other things. When I returned, I read the next five hundred pages in two days. These stories are truly great.
]]> <![CDATA[Die Leiden des jungen Werthers]]> 24052113
Sorgfältig nach der Original-Ausgabe von 1774 herausgegeben!

Mit aktivem Inhaltsverzeichnis! (alle Briefe sind direkt aufrufbar!)

Ideal auch fĂĽr Schule und Studium!
]]> 118 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Humphrey 5 4.60 1774 Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
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]]> Black Orpheus 326680 65 Jean-Paul Sartre 2708701339 Humphrey 4 3.54 1956 Black Orpheus
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]]> What is Literature? 162174 280 Jean-Paul Sartre 0415254043 Humphrey 4 3.70 1948 What is Literature?
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]]> Elective Affinities 128837 Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it appears to them as something terrible and destructive.]]> 272 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0192837761 Humphrey 5 3.81 1809 Elective Affinities
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]]> East-West Divan 2969585 "Bräuten in der Locken Ranken,/ denen Schleier, leicht und licht, / Halb nur hüllen den Gedanken, / gleicht, o Hafis, dein Gedicht".

Berauscht von der Lektüre des Diwans im Juni 1814 übernahm Johann Wolfgang von Goethe das Bild von der "Wortbraut" und stellte es als gleichnishaftes Motto dem Buch Hafis seines West-Östlichen Divans (1819/1827) "Sei das Wort die Braut genannt" -- eine Hommage an den persischen "Zwilling", die der Weimarer Geheime Rat auch als Verpflichtung für das eigene Schreiben verstand. Tatsächlich ist Goethe in seiner Auseinandersetzung mit Hafis ein überaus sinnliches Stück Weltliteratur gelungen, dessen Verfasser das gesamte Spektrum literarischer Möglichkeiten wie ein Bräutigam umgreifen will und in souveräner Beherrschung von alltäglicher und gehobener, euphorischer und ironischer Rede die "Lieb-, Lied- und Weinestrunkenheit" im Harem der Worte zu vermählen sucht.

Am deutlichsten wird diese quasi erotische Verbindung von Werk und Schöpfer im Buch Suleika , jenem autobiographisch an die 30jährige Marianne von Willemer gerichteten Meisterstück, das den Austausch mit der Geliebten zum leidenschaftlichen Dialog des 66jährigen Dichters auch mit der Sprache werden läß "Sich liebend aneinander zu laben / Wird Paradieses Wonne sein". Daß Marianne, wie man inzwischen weiß, einige der schönsten Gedichte zum Buch Suleika beisteuerte, hebt das Zwiegespräch zwischen der jungen Suleika und dem greisen Hatem innerhalb der Sammlung auf ein neues, pikant-intimes Niveau.

"Den berauschendsten Lebensgenuß hat Goethe hier in Verse gebracht", schrieb Heinrich Heine 1836 in der Romantischen Schule , "und diese sind so leicht, so glücklich, so hingehaucht, so ätherisch, daß man sich wundert, wie dergleichen in der deutschen Sprache möglich war". Möglich war dieser unbeschreibliche Zauber des Divans nur als trunkene, raumzeitlich losgelöste Liebeserklärung des Dichters an die unendliche, Orient und Okzident, Geist und Humor, Jugend und Alter, Liebhaber und Geliebte in jeder Strophe neu vereinende Poesie.

Der Schwiegertochter Ottilie erläuterte Goethe am 21. Juni 1818 die Absicht seiner "Ihre Bestimmung ist es, uns von der Gegenwart abzulösen und uns für den Augenblick dem Gefühl nach in die grenzenlose Freiheit zu versetzen. Dies ist zu einer jeden Zeit wohltätig, besonders zu der unseren". Wenn dies mit einer derart lyrischen Virtuosität wie im West-Östlichen Divan gelingt, gilt dieser Auspruch bis heute. -- Thomas Köster]]> 370 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 096319027X Humphrey 4 4.03 1819 East-West Divan
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]]> <![CDATA[The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern]]> 6279899 226 Shierry Weber Nicholsen 0262140764 Humphrey 3 3.60 2001 The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern
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]]> <![CDATA[La contre-révolution coloniale en France. De de Gaulle à Sarkozy]]> 6145467 «La preuve des races sociales, c’est qu’elles luttent!»
Face à cette offensive massive contre tous ceux qui sont définitivement de l’autre côté de la barrière raciale et que la France s’acharne à combattre en particulier pour ce qu’ils sont censés avoir de particulier, Sadri Khiari nous donne à voir les luttes de résistance de ceux dont on tolère à peine l’existence quand on ne la nie pas complètement: des luttes des OS immigrés
aux grèves des loyers dans les foyers Sonacotra, des luttes des sans-papiers à la solidarité avec la Palestine, des mobilisations contre les crimes racistes et les violences policières jusqu’aux révoltes des quartiers populaires, ils sont nombreux à défier les promesses non tenues de liberté, d’égalité et de fraternité.
Pouvoir blanc vs Puissance indigène
Derrière les défaites, les «récupérations», les protestations sans lendemain, les émeutes vite réprimées ou les divisions, Sadri Khiari nous révèle l’existence d’une véritable puissance politique, longtemps restée inidentifiable, parfois inconsciente d’elle-même mais bien réelle � tant, dans une logique d’opposition à la domination blanche, elle pèse dans les rapports de forces.]]> 250 Sadri Khiari Humphrey 3 3.83 La contre-révolution coloniale en France. De de Gaulle à Sarkozy
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Interesting, more provocative that anything else. Many chapters - for instance De Marronage Ă  Jihad - do not demonstrate the argument persuasively. Still, a provocative book.
]]> Une connaissance inutile 651216 Alors vous saurez
qu’il ne faut pas parler avec la mort
c’est une connaissance inutile
Une connaissance inutile est le troisième ouvrage de Charlotte Delbo sur les camps de concentration. Après deux livres aussi diffĂ©rents par leur forme et leur Ă©criture que Aucun de nous ne reviendra et Le Convoi du 24 janvier, c’est dans un autre ton qu’on lira ici Auschwitz et RavensbrĂĽck. On y lira plus encore une sensibilitĂ© qui se dĂ©voile Ă  travers les dĂ©chirements. Si les deux prĂ©cĂ©dents pouvaient apparaĂ®tre presque impersonnels par leur dĂ©pouillement, dans celui-ci elle parle d’elle. L’amour et le dĂ©sespoir de l’amour â€� l’amour et la mortĚý; l’amitiĂ© et le dĂ©sespoir de l’amitiĂ© â€� l’amitiĂ© et la mortĚý; les souffrances, la chaleur de la fraternitĂ© dans le froid mortel d’un univers qui se dĂ©peuple jour Ă  jour, les mouvements de l’espoir qui s’éteint et renaĂ®t, s’éteint encore et s’acharne...

MESURE DE NOS JOURS
Et toi, comment as-tu faitĚý? pourrait ĂŞtre le titre de ce troisième volume de Auschwitz et après. Comment as-tu fait en revenantĚý? Comment ont-ils fait, les rescapĂ©s des camps, pour se remettre Ă  vivre, pour reprendre la vie dans ses plisĚý? C’est la question qu’on se pose, qu’on n’ose pas leur poser. Avec beaucoup d’autres questions. Car si l’on peut comprendre comment tant de dĂ©portĂ©s sont morts lĂ -bas, on ne comprend pas, ni comment quelques-uns ont survĂ©cu, ni surtout comment ces survivants ont pu redevenir des vivants. Dans Mesure de nos jours, Charlotte Delbo essaie de rĂ©pondre, pour elle-mĂŞme et pour d’autres, hommes et femmes, Ă  qui elle prĂŞte sa voix.

Les deuxième et troisième volumes de la trilogie Auschwitz et après sont respectivement parus en 1970 et 1971 aux Éditions de Minuit.]]> 190 Charlotte Delbo 2707304026 Humphrey 4 4.55 1970 Une connaissance inutile
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]]> The Pedestrians 18406279 I too will be unbodied—what? you
imagine I might transmogrify? I'm from
nowhere which means here & so wade out
into the briny dream of elsewheres like
a released dybbyk but can't stand
the soulessness now everyone who ever
made sense to me has died & everyone I love
grows from my body like limbs on a rootless tree Rachel Zucker is the author of Museum of Accidents , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of The Bad Wife , The Last Clear Narrative , Eating in the Underworld , and Annunciation .]]> 160 Rachel Zucker 1933517891 Humphrey 0 to-read 4.16 2014 The Pedestrians
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]]> Un dimanche au cachot 10147399 368 Patrick Chamoiseau 2070379965 Humphrey 5 3.05 2007 Un dimanche au cachot
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]]> Aucun de nous ne reviendra 687985 184 Charlotte Delbo 2707302902 Humphrey 5 4.34 1965 Aucun de nous ne reviendra
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]]> Speculum. De l'autre femme 440476
Un spéculum a été introduit dans le volume pour en altérer l’économie. Ce praticable déjouant le montage de la représentation selon des paramètres masculins. Non pour quelque nouveau spectacle. Rien, alors, à voir en plus ? Mais que, d’un tact difficilement identifiable dans son fluide et inappropriable dans sa touche, � Dieu � rouvre des chemins dans un langage qui la connote comme châtrée, interdite de parole, et un certain sens � aussi de l’histoire � s’en trouvera soumis à une distorsion inouïe.
La/une femme jamais ne se re(n)ferme en un volume.
Luce Irigaray]]> 468 Luce Irigaray 2707300241 Humphrey 5 4.25 1974 Speculum. De l'autre femme
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]]> <![CDATA[Profil - Montesquieu : Lettres persanes: Analyse littéraire de l'oeuvre]]> 1989978 � Le résumé de chaque lettre (1 à 160) et les repères pour la lecture sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :
� La structure des Lettres persanes
� Un roman épistolaire
� Le drame du sérail
� De la satire à la philosophie.
� Ce Profil d’une œuvre comprend également quatre lectures analytiques :
� un extrait de la lettre XXIV ;
� un extrait de la lettre LVIII ;
� un extrait de la lettre XCIX ;
� un extrait de la lettre CLXI]]> 159 Claude Puzin 2218739461 Humphrey 3 3.58 2004 Profil - Montesquieu : Lettres persanes: Analyse littéraire de l'oeuvre
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]]> The Space of Literature 184882 279 Maurice Blanchot 080326092X Humphrey 4 4.33 1955 The Space of Literature
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> Figures I 1452561 288 GĂ©rard Genette 202004417X Humphrey 4 4.04 1966 Figures I
author: GĂ©rard Genette
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Gedichte in zwei Bänden. Zweiter Band]]> 2063235 Fadensonnen
Lichtzwang
Schneepart]]> 445 paul-celan 3518014137 Humphrey 5 4.47 1975 Gedichte in zwei Bänden. Zweiter Band
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]]> <![CDATA[Der Sand Aus Den Urnen; Mohn Und GedcĚhtnis: Historisch Kritische Ausgabe]]> 2286906 0 Paul Celan 3518414410 Humphrey 5 4.14 1994 Der Sand Aus Den Urnen; Mohn Und GedcĚhtnis: Historisch Kritische Ausgabe
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name: Humphrey
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 5
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]]> The Escape 1655348 Jo-Ann Wasserman 0971680027 Humphrey 4 4.33 2003 The Escape
author: Jo-Ann Wasserman
name: Humphrey
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> Chicago Review (50:2/3/4) 1550570 Ed. Eirik Steinhoff Humphrey 3 3.00 2007 Chicago Review (50:2/3/4)
author: Ed. Eirik Steinhoff
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average rating: 3.00
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 8X8X7 3568046 96 Colin Smith 1928650287 Humphrey 5 4.50 2008 8X8X7
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]]> The Holy Family 511326 300 Karl Marx 0898759730 Humphrey 4 3.99 1844 The Holy Family
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]]> Critique de la raison nègre 18720205
Dans cet essai à la fois érudit et iconoclaste, Achille Mbembe engage une réflexion critique indispensable pour répondre à la principale question sur le monde de notre temps : comment penser la différence et la vie, le semblable et le dissemblable ?]]> 267 Achille Mbembe 2707177474 Humphrey 4 4.22 2013 Critique de la raison nègre
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]]> <![CDATA[Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights Spotlight, No. 10)]]> 17347722 "Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."�Booklist

Charged with swagger and sensuality, tenderness and cold fact, the 10th Spotlight series installment, Here Come the Warm Jets, is the brash debut volume by Bay Area poet Alli Warren. Taking its title from the Brian Eno classic, Jets jumbles gender, class, and space-time perspectives into a chorus of contemporary idioms and lyrical longings. Against the daunting backdrop of contemporary political-economy, Warren launches her missives of desire, in writing that is at once raw and sly. From the Bishop of Worms to Flipper to E-40, nobody's safe from the easy virtuosity with which she makes language sing.

The collection is a finalist for the 2014 California Book Award.

About the Spotlights Series:
City Lights Spotlight hopes to shine a light on the wealth of innovative American poetry being written today. We intend to publish accomplished figures known in the poetry community as well as young emerging poets, using the cultural visibility of City Lights to bring their work to a wider audience. In doing so, we also seek to draw attention to those small presses publishing such authors. As City Lights founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, wrote, "If you would be a poet, experiment with all manner of poetics . . . to create your own limbic, your own underlying voice, your ur voice."

Praise for Here Come the Warm Jets:
"The 10th in City Lights' 'Spotlight Series,' poet Alli Warren's first book is anthemic, both wry and full of wonder, colloquial and lyrical and glittering with revelations. [It] upends contemporary syntax for the sake of self-expansion, moving seamlessly between edification and amused, tongue-in-cheek condemnation."� San Francisco Weekly

"Here Come the Warm Jets starts by cycling through swaths of factless job-voice before pitching an unfolding exuberant doom-diction through the book’s positively evil prosodic middle. Relative time, absolute time, ornery time, palpation time, and a kind of time I can’t name are all in play along the way. I think Warren’s end of capitalism would come with the richest planes of full life, but only the poems and their upending of the never-ending blossom hull make me think so."�Anselm Berrigan

"When form and form’s fiancé come maundering Alli Warren will undo them both with tart prepositional gambits and the vagaries of fortune-telling and a fine poker-faced command of stagecraft itself. With nods to the congress of manners (and hat tips too to Brooks, Duncan, and others) Here Come the Warm Jets plays at neither checking nor abashing but chronicles what it just might be to be beyond the reach of any drama, any architecture. This is one heavenly book."�C. S. Giscombe

“Though she may be excoriating the system, Warren has fun doing it, however, with a willingness to always go for a dirty joke � This dead-pan tone belies the slyly crafted humor of her wordplay, which mashes up multiple registers for comic, sometimes cutting effect � Even as Warren’s poems dance away from any notion of a fixed self � a tender undercurrent runs throughout, and the closing 'Personal Poem'—comprising a series of second-person commands—offers a roundabout glimpse into the poet’s more quotidian inspirations, while offering some sage advice: 'Don’t talk too much about language in mixed company.’”� American Poets

Praise for Alli Warren:
“[She]’s one of those poets who, once you read her work, instantly becomes a necessity.”�Ron Silliman

“Warren displays a serious commitment to delineating the multifarious registers of communication that collide into what we think of as culture.”�Noah Eli Gordon
]]> 104 Alli Warren 0872866092 Humphrey 4 4.37 2013 Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights Spotlight, No. 10)
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]]> The Fire Next Time 464260 The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,� written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,� The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.]]> 106 James Baldwin 067974472X Humphrey 5 4.55 1963 The Fire Next Time
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]]> <![CDATA[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]> 61539 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach.

With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,� as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age.

This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work in the history of science includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context. ĚýNewly designed, with an expanded index, this edition will be eagerly welcomed by the next generation of readers seeking to understand the history of our perspectives on science.]]> 226 Thomas S. Kuhn 0226458083 Humphrey 4 4.03 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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]]> Notes of a Native Son 410810 --back cover]]> 192 James Baldwin 0807064319 Humphrey 4 4.38 1955 Notes of a Native Son
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name: Humphrey
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> Gravity’s Rainbow 415 776 Thomas Pynchon 0143039946 Humphrey 5 4.01 1973 Gravity’s Rainbow
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Humphrey
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]]> 80369 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by the most influential philosopher since Sartre compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as he examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, Michel Foucault suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner's body to the soul � and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity.

Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshaling a vast body of research, Discipline and Punish is a genuinely revolutionary book, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society.]]> 333 Michel Foucault 0679752552 Humphrey 4 4.23 1975 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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]]> Madonna Anno Domini: Poems 1415440 Book by Clover, Joshua Joshua Clover 0807121487 Humphrey 4 4.01 1997 Madonna Anno Domini: Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[This Connection of Everyone With Lungs]]> 368493 86 Juliana Spahr 0520242955 Humphrey 4 3.90 2005 This Connection of Everyone With Lungs
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]]> The Political Unconscious 226065 A landmark publication, The Political Unconscious takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.]]> 310 Fredric Jameson 0415287510 Humphrey 3 4.03 1981 The Political Unconscious
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]]> Super Sad True Love Story 7334201 The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.

In a very near future—oh, let’s say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century—he totally loves books (or “printed, bound media artifacts,� as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.

After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our “ancient dork� effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny’s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York’s Central Park, the city’s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He’s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect’s “hotness� and “sustainability� with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.

Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
Ěý±Ő±Ő> 331 Gary Shteyngart 1400066409 Humphrey 3 3.45 2010 Super Sad True Love Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the Twentieth Century]]> 6419839
Issue #1 entitled, "Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the Twentieth Century", begins where the engagement between Aufheben and the French group Thèorie Communiste left off. It consists mainly of a debate between Gilles Dauvé and Thèorie Communiste addressing why the traditional workers' movement failed to overcome capitalism, and what the restructuring of the 1970s means for class struggle and revolution today.]]> 261 Endnotes Collective Humphrey 4 3.84 2008 Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the Twentieth Century
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]]> Ulysses 338798
According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain.

The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. Since its publication, the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted textual "Joyce Wars." The novel's stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose—replete with puns, parodies, and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works in history; Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday.']]> 783 James Joyce Humphrey 5 3.72 1922 Ulysses
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]]> <![CDATA[Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry (Contemp North American Poetry)]]> 13220605
As DuPlessis writes, “There are no genderless subjects in any relationship structuring literary not in production, dissemination, or reception; not in objects, discourses, or practices; not in reading experiences or in interpretations.� And, as she reveals in careful and enthralling detail, for the poets at the center of this book, questions of masculinity loomed large and were continuously articulated in their self-creation as writers, in literary bonding, and in its deployment.

These gender-laden choices, debates, and contradictions all have a striking influence today. In this empathic yet critical historical polemic, DuPlessis reveals the outcomes of these many investments in the radical reconstruction of masculinity, in their strains, incompleteness, tensions—and failures. At the heart of modernist maleness and poetic practices are contradictions and urgencies, gender ideas both progressive and defensive.In a striking book on male behavior in poetic dyads, the third book in a feminist critical trilogy, DuPlessis tracks the poetic debates and arguments about gender that continuously affirm patriarchal poetry.]]> 256 Rachel Blau DuPlessis 1609380843 Humphrey 4 4.22 2012 Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry (Contemp North American Poetry)
author: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
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]]> Women, Race & Class 635635 From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.

"Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard." �The New York Times

Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women's rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger's racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.]]> 271 Angela Y. Davis 0394713516 Humphrey 4 4.58 1981 Women, Race & Class
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]]> Slouching Towards Bethlehem 424 The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.

It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.

It contains Didion's famous essay, "Goodbye to All That".]]> 238 Joan Didion Humphrey 4 4.20 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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]]> <![CDATA[Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity]]> 85767 Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.]]> 236 Judith Butler 0415389550 Humphrey 4 4.07 1989 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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]]> My Common Heart 12540589 36 Anne Boyer Humphrey 4 4.03 2011 My Common Heart
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]]> <![CDATA[Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan Poetry Series)]]> 368494
Juliana Spahr uses details to explore Hawai'i's politics of location and her own place in it as an a hard-core show where the singer shouts out "fuck you-aloha-I love you" over and over; the pidgin word 'da kine;' native Hawaiian rights to gathering; Palolo stream; the similarities and differences between hotel rooms and conference rooms; and acrobats at a Las Vegas-style floor show in Waikiki. Spahr is attentive to specifics and she draws from documentary poetics in these five interconnected poems that move between lyricism, rhythmic repetition, and explanatory prose. Conceptually provocative and yet moving at the same time, Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You demands reading and re-reading.]]> 96 Juliana Spahr 0819565253 Humphrey 4 4.07 2001 Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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]]> The Coming Insurrection 6447374 A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance.

Thirty years of “crisis,� mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy... We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it. The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.� The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine capable of “spreading anarchy and live communism.� Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the “war on terror.� Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized life forms. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those—in France, in the United States, and elsewhere—who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.]]> 136 The Invisible Committee 1584350806 Humphrey 4 3.81 2007 The Coming Insurrection
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]]> Introduction to Civil War 7218719 Activists explore the possibility that a new practice of communism may emerge from the end of society as we know it.

Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered tatters of the global biopolitical fabric, through which THEY prevent its violent disintegration. Empire is the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager of a process of listless implosion.—from Introduction to Civil War Society is not in crisis, society is at an end. The things we used to take for granted have all been vaporized. Politics was one of these things, a Greek invention that condenses around an equation: to hold a position means to take sides, and to take sides means to unleash civil war. Civil war, position, sides—these were all one word in the Greek: stasis. If the history of the modern state in all its forms—absolute, liberal, welfare—has been the continuous attempt to ward off this stasis, the great novelty of contemporary imperial power is its embrace of civil war as a technique of governance and disorder as a means of maintaining control. Where the modern state was founded on the institution of the law and its constellation of divisions, exclusions, and repressions, imperial power has replaced them with a network of norms and apparatuses that conspire in the production of the biopolitical citizens of Empire. In their first book available in English, Tiqqun explores the possibility of a new practice of communism, finding a foundation for an ontology of the common in the politics of friendship and the free play of forms-of-life. They see the ruins of society as the ideal setting for the construction of the community to come. In other words: the situation is excellent. Now is not the time to lose courage.]]> 232 Tiqqun 1584350865 Humphrey 3 3.91 2010 Introduction to Civil War
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]]> <![CDATA[Wallace Stevens Reads: The Idea of Order at Key West, Looking Across the Fields and Watching Birds Fly, and Other Poems]]> 669468 Wallace Stevens achieved international recognition as a master craftsman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards. Trained as a lawyer and employed as an insurance executive, Stevens' reputation has flourished since his death, and he is now considered one of America's most significant poets. His poems, marked by an unmistakable individuality, are exquisitely formed, full of lush figures and daring images. The listener will enjoy how Stevens wittily confuses all the arts in a luxuriance he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry.'

Poems Included:

Side 1:

The Theory of Poetry (A Prose Note); The Idea of Order at Key West; Credences of Summer; The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain; Vacancy in the Park

Side 2:

Large Red Man Reading; This Solitude of Cataracts; In the Element of Antagonisms; Peulla Parvula; To An Old Philosopher in Rome; Two Illustrations That the World is What You Make of It 1: The Constant Disquisition of the Wind, II: The World is Larger in Summer; Prologues to What is Possible, II; Looking across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly; Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour and The Life of a Poet (A Prose Note)

]]> 0 Wallace Stevens 1559948329 Humphrey 5 4.17 1993 Wallace Stevens Reads: The Idea of Order at Key West, Looking Across the Fields and Watching Birds Fly, and Other Poems
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]]> Discourse on Colonialism 86598 Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and antiwar movements.

Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress" and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage," "uncultured," or "primitive." He reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that "the relationship between consciousness and reality is extremely complex. . . . It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society."

An interview with Aimé Césaire by the poet René Depestre is also included.]]> 102 Aimé Césaire 1583670254 Humphrey 4 4.44 1950 Discourse on Colonialism
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]]> The People of Paper 43603 256 Salvador Plascencia 0156032112 Humphrey 4 4.07 2005 The People of Paper
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]]> <![CDATA[Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress]]> 4601831 155 Hans Magnus Enzensberger 0916354040 Humphrey 3 4.10 1975 Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress
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name: Humphrey
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rating: 3
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]]> Tweaky Village 20827392 116 Kevin Killian 0989598521 Humphrey 5 4.50 2014 Tweaky Village
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Later Poems and Plays]]> 17718826
This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books from this period: The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work.

The biographical and critical introduction discusses Duncan as a late Romantic and postmodern American writer; his formulation of a homosexual poetics; his development of the serial poem; the notation and centrality of sound as organizing principle; his relations with such fellow poets as Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, and Jack Spicer; his indebtedness to Alfred North Whitehead; and his collaborations with the painter Jess Collins, his lifelong partner. Texts include his anti-war poems of the 1960s and 70s, his homages to Dante and other canonical poets, and his translations from the French of GĂ©rard de Nerval, as well as the complete Structure of Rime and Passages series.
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]]> Four Fields 17612872 The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and their natural and human histories. Four real fields � walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable and knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested and changing. Four fields � the oldest and simplest and truest measure of what a man needs in life � looked at, thought about, worked in, lived with, written.

Dee’s four fields, which he has known for more than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom of his Cambridgeshire garden, a field in southern Zambia, a prairie field in Little Bighorn, Montana, USA, and a grass meadow in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live and how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made of the wild, to look at and think about the way we have messed things up but also to notice how we have kept going alongside nature, to listen to the conversation we have had with grass and fields.

Four Fields is a profound, lyrical book by one of Britain’s very best writers about nature.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize]]> 288 Tim Dee 0224090720 Humphrey 4 3.77 2013 Four Fields
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Best use of a Gramsci quote to talk about bird watching in Chernobyl!
]]> <![CDATA[The Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)]]> 20956085 363 W.E.B. Du Bois 1306458951 Humphrey 3 4.00 1899 The Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
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]]> Commons 564329
Kim's blank spaces are loaded openings through which readers enter the text and find their way. These silences reveal gaps in memory and articulate experiences that will not translate into language at all. Her words retrieve the past in much the same way the human mind an image sparks another image, a scent, the sound of bombs, or conversation. These silences and pauses give the poems their structure.

Commons' s fragmented lyric pushes the reader to question the construction of the poem. Identity surfaces, sinks back, then rises again. On this shifting ground, Kim creates meaning through juxtaposed fragments. Her verse, with its stops and starts, its austere yet rich images, offers splinters of testimony and objection. It negotiates a constantly changing world, scavenging through scraps of experience, spaces around words, and remnants of emotion for a language that enfolds the enormity of what we cannot express.]]> 122 Myung Mi Kim 0520231449 Humphrey 4 4.17 2002 Commons
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]]> <![CDATA[Africa, Its Geography, People and Products and Africa-Its Place in Modern History (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)]]> 3786764
Written in very accessible prose, these two booklets, originally published in 1930, allowed W. E. B. Du Bois to reach a wide audience with an interest in Africa. What is so incredible about the two Africa booklets is their lasting relevance and value to the study of Africa today. Coupling Du Bois's breadth of scholarship with his passion for the subjects, the analyses in these booklets are integral to the study of Africa. Many of his arguments foreshadowed the issues and debates regarding Africa in the twentieth century. Expertly synthesized in an introduction by Emmanuel Akyeampong, this edition of the two Africa booklets is essential for anyone interested in African history.]]> 110 W.E.B. Du Bois 019532580X Humphrey 3 2.50 1977 Africa, Its Geography, People and Products and Africa-Its Place in Modern History (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
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]]> Citizen Warhol 17674080 Ěý

Citizen Warhol leads us through the artist’s youth, from his religiously infused childhood and adolescence in Pittsburgh to his university training at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he was profoundly affected by Carnegie’s industrial-age theory of art. Stimson recounts Warhol’s brief but formative dalliance with the guilt-riddled sensibility and decadent lifestyle of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator whose drawings emphasize the grotesque and the erotic. In addition, Stimson describes how the Byzantine-influenced religious rituals of Warhol’s childhood affected his relationships with the figures who starred in his films and staffed the Factory, as well as relating the lessons he learned from his triumphs as a commercial artist working in a world still beholden to the Red Decade ideals of the 1930s. More than any other artist, Stimson shows, Warhol represents the unresolved contradiction between the ideal of the citizen and that of the consumer, an incongruity people continue to struggle with today.

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From Lonesome Cowboy to Campbell's Soup I , this book provides readers with deeper insight into the meaning and legacy of Warhol’s life and art.]]> 272 Blake Stimson 178023192X Humphrey 5 3.14 2013 Citizen Warhol
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I thought the book a very good monograph. It mixes biography with a lot of social history and a few close readings of particular works.
]]> Ark 1425894 283 Ronald Johnson 0945953070 Humphrey 4 4.58 1996 Ark
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]]> <![CDATA[Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)]]> 18730595
In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins--and what they still share--has never been more urgent.]]> 576 James Turner 0691145644 Humphrey 4
N.b. the footnotes are a bit confusing.]]> 3.99 2014 Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
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Very good book within its own terms. It is less a history of philology than a historical argument about the development of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences out of the history of philology and antiquarianism.

N.b. the footnotes are a bit confusing.
]]> The Feel Trio 20786834 93 Fred Moten 0988713713 Humphrey 3 4.41 2014 The Feel Trio
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]]> La literatura nazi en América 71543
Escrita a imitación de los diccionarios de literatura, esta divertidísima obra de ficción disfrazada de manual se compone de las más variadas reseñas dedicadas a la vida y la obra de autores inexistentes de una literatura inexistente, y constituye una excelente parodia de la historia real de la literatura iberoamericana.

Con la publicación en 1996 de este diccionario de autores infames Roberto Bolaño llamó por primera vez la atención de la crítica, que alabó su originalidad y brillante inventiva. Hoy en día está considerado uno de los autores más importantes, renovadores e influyentes, y su obra, uno de los grandes logros de la literatura en lengua española de los últimos tiempos.]]> 256 Roberto Bolaño 9507312374 Humphrey 4 3.87 1996 La literatura nazi en América
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]]> TwERK 17322077 98 LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs 098853990X Humphrey 4 4.22 2013 TwERK
author: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
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]]> Holocaust 1261425 112 Charles Reznikoff 1574232088 Humphrey 5 4.44 1975 Holocaust
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]]> <![CDATA[Transcript (German and Austrian Literature Series)]]> 6478161 153 Heimrad Bäcker 1564785653 Humphrey 4 4.27 1993 Transcript (German and Austrian Literature Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Art and Aesthetics after Adorno (Townsend Papers in the Humanities)]]> 7270696 Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has happened since then both in theory and in practice. Adorno's powerful vision of aesthetics calls for reconsideration in this light. Must his work be defended, updated, resisted, or simply left behind? This volume gathers new essays by leading philosophers, critics, and theorists writing in the wake of Adorno in order to address these questions. They hold in common a deep respect for the power of Adorno's aesthetic critique and a concern for the future of aesthetic theory in response to recent developments in aesthetics and its contexts.]]> 302 J.M. Bernstein 0982329423 Humphrey 4 3.73 2010 Art and Aesthetics after Adorno (Townsend Papers in the Humanities)
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]]> <![CDATA[Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme]]> 179793
As he explores the manifold contexts for understanding experience―epistemological, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical―Jay engages an exceptionally broad range of European and American traditions and thinkers from the American pragmatists and British Marxist humanists to the Frankfurt School and the French poststructuralists, and he delves into the thought of individual philosophers as well, including Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Hume and Kant, Oakeshott, Collingwood, and Ankersmit. Provocative, engaging, erudite, this key work will be an essential source for anyone who joins the ongoing debate about the material, linguistic, cultural, and theoretical meaning of "experience" in modern cultures.]]> 444 Martin Jay 0520248236 Humphrey 4 4.35 2004 Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme
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]]> <![CDATA[Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)]]> 162572 280 Shierry Weber Nicholsen 0262640406 Humphrey 4 4.20 1997 Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
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]]> <![CDATA[Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)]]> 322443
The opening essay, "Origin Is the Goal," pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and political situation of the United States. "Back to Adorno" examines Adorno's idea that sacrifice is the primordial form of human domination; "Second Salvage" reconstructs Adorno's unfinished study of the transformation of music in radio transmission; and "What Is Mechanical Reproduction" revisits Adorno's criticism of Walter Benjamin. Further essays cover a broad range of Adorno's affinities with Wallace Stevens and Nabokov, his complex relationship with Kierkegaard and psychoanalysis, and his critical study of popular music.

Many of these essays have been revised, with new material added that emphasizes the relevance of Adorno's thought to the United States today. Things Beyond Resemblance is a timely and richly analytical collection crucial to the study of critical theory, aesthetics, continental philosophy, and Adorno.]]> 344 Robert Hullot-Kentor 0231136587 Humphrey 5 4.14 2006 Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)
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]]> Celan Studies 214397 Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century.

The book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan poem. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. "Reading 'EngfĂĽhrung'" follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. "Eden" addresses "Du liegst," a poem on the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when the poem was written. It analyzes the relation between the historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition.

The book contains, as appendixes, Szondi's notes for three more projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his death in 1971.]]> 152 Peter Szondi 0804744025 Humphrey 4 3.94 2003 Celan Studies
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]]> <![CDATA[Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence]]> 171255 ]]> 168 Judith Butler 1844675440 Humphrey 3 4.21 2004 Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
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]]> <![CDATA[Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"]]> 181549 Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather.]]> 304 Judith Butler 0415903661 Humphrey 4 4.12 1993 Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
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]]> Odalisque 20813592
Excerpt:

"Forever is the saddest word
The poem’s not worth it
I’d like to read to you
What Andy Warhol said
About the traps of the rich
But my tastes are changing
This is a love note
To a Fire Island lifeguard
Tuscano shearling
And mauve champagne
I should never talk
Even after two sips
Though that’s when I can
I hate the George V hotel
But I would take you there
Then walk to the open market
Some thoughts are not that great
The Internet is my home
Where it’s easy to be beautiful
And seen and new
In the glow
In the spell"

—from "Fantasy"]]> 16 Ben Fama Humphrey 4 4.73 2014 Odalisque
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]]> The Formal Field of Kissing 1887992
only the manners of centuries ago can teach me
how to address you my lover as who you are
O Sestius, how could you put up with my children
thinking all the while you were bearing me as in your mirror
it doesn’t matter anymore if spring wreaks its fiery
or lamblike dawn on my new-found asceticism, some joke
I wouldn’t sleep with you or any man if you paid me
and most of you poets don’t have the cash anyway
so please rejoin your fraternal books forever
while you miss in your securest sleep Ms. Rosy-fingered dawn
who might’ve been induced to digitalize a part of you
were it not for your self-induced revenge of undoneness
it’s good to live without a refrigerator! why bother
to chill the handiwork of Ceres and of Demeter?
and of the lonesome Sappho. let’s have it warm for now.]]> 32 Bernadette Mayer Humphrey 4 4.44 1990 The Formal Field of Kissing
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]]> <![CDATA[Lyrik nach Auschwitz? Adorno und die Dichter]]> 1231375 German 167 Petra Kiedaisch 3150093635 Humphrey 4 4.14 1995 Lyrik nach Auschwitz? Adorno und die Dichter
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]]> <![CDATA[The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde]]> 14946364
Mixing textual analysis, archival research, and historiography, Ruth Jennison shows how Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker braided their experiences as working-class Jews, political activists, and feminists into radical, canon-challenging poetic forms. Using the tools of critical geography, Jennison offers an account of the relationship between the uneven spatial landscapes of capitalism in crisis and the Objectivists' paratactical textscapes. In a rethinking of the overall terms in which poetic modernism is described, she identifies and assesses the key characteristics of the Objectivist avant-garde, including its formal recognition of proliferating commodity cultures, its solidarity with global anticapitalist movements, and its imperative to develop poetics that nurtured revolutionary literacy. The resulting narrative is a historically sensitive, thorough, and innovative account of Objectivism's Depression-era modernism.

A rich analysis of American avant-garde poetic forms and politics, "The Zukofsky Era "convincingly situates Objectivist poetry as a politically radical movement comprising a crucial chapter in American literary history. Scholars and students of modernism especially will find much to discuss in Jennison's theoretical study.]]> 245 Ruth Jennison 142140611X Humphrey 4 4.67 2012 The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
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]]> <![CDATA[Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art]]> 15842592 232 Jennifer Doyle 082235313X Humphrey 3 4.31 2013 Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
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]]> <![CDATA[Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy]]> 16033283 Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice, the reviving voice, and the surviving voice. Through her deft readings of modern poetry, Fuss unveils the dramatic within the elegiac: the dying diva who relishes a great deathbed scene, the speaking corpse who fancies a good haunting, and the departing lover who delights in a dramatic exit.Focusing primarily on American and British poetry written during the past two centuries, Fuss maintains that poetry can still offer genuine ethical compensation, even for the deep wounds and shocking banalities of modern death. As dying, loss, and grief become ever more thoroughly obscured from public view, the dead start chattering away in verse. Through bold, original interpretations of little-known works, as well as canonical poems by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath, Fuss explores modern poetry's fascination with pre- and postmortem speech, pondering the literary desire to make death speak in the face of its cultural silencing.]]> 160 Diana Fuss 082235389X Humphrey 4 4.22 2013 Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy
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]]> Depression: A Public Feeling 13588711 Depression: A Public Feelings Project, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and writing her first book. Building on the insights of the memoir, in the critical essay she considers the idea that feeling bad constitutes the lived experience of neoliberal capitalism.

Cvetkovich draws on an unusual archive, including accounts of early Christian acedia and spiritual despair, texts connecting the histories of slavery and colonialism with their violent present-day legacies, and utopian spaces created from lesbian feminist practices of crafting. She herself seeks to craft a queer cultural analysis that accounts for depression as a historical category, a felt experience, and a point of entry into discussions about theory, contemporary culture, and everyday life. Depression: A Public Feeling suggests that utopian visions can reside in daily habits and practices, such as writing and yoga, and it highlights the centrality of somatic and felt experience to political activism and social transformation.]]> 296 Ann Cvetkovich 0822352389 Humphrey 3 3.92 2012 Depression: A Public Feeling
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]]> Reading Capital 85924 For Marx, Reading Capital represents one of the foundational texts of the school of “structuralist Marxism� which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory. Presided over by the magnetic and intellectually coruscating figure of Althusser, the structuralist Marxists attempted no less than an intellectual revolution against dominant interpretations of Marx. Seeking to cleanse Marx of all Hegelian impurities and recast his thought on a rigorously scientific basis, in this work Althusser and one of his most brilliant students and colleagues, Etienne Balibar, subjected Marx’s method in Capital, his critique of classical political economy, and the fundamental terms of historical materialism, to searching textual analysis and challenging conceptual reconstruction. Inaugurating a new way of reading Marx that was to prove both intensely stimulating and capable of generating fierce controversy, Reading Capital is a work that cannot be bypassed by anyone interested in Marxism, and in theory more generally, in this century.]]> 340 Louis Althusser 1859841643 Humphrey 3 3.93 1968 Reading Capital
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Obviously essential reading for marxists. That said, I have a lot of problems with the basic principles of Althusser's approach. Rather than attempting to approach marx as a philosopher - to find the implicit philosophy of marxism - I find it more compelling to approach philosophy as a marxist - to seek the historical and political economic determinations of both philosophy and science. Lots of keen ideas, however; and it is a marvelous example of constructing complex and persuasive arguments. I have not looked at the essays not included in the English edition, but I will say that Balibar is, at times, even more interesting than Althusser.
]]> Humanisme de l'Autre Homme 10352839 He expresses disappointment with the revolutions that became bureaucracies and totalitarian governments, and the national liberation movements that eventually led to oppression and international wars. Defining the human as subject, ego, synthesis, identification, cognition, and mood all too easily lead to subjugation, persecution, and murder.

Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization which reached its apotheosis in Hitler and Nazism, Levinas does not underestimate the difficulty of reconciling oneself with another. The humanity of the human, Levinas argues, is not discoverable through mathematics, rational metaphysics or introspection. Rather, it is found in the recognition that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self.

]]> Emmanuel Levinas Humphrey 3 3.29 1987 Humanisme de l'Autre Homme
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]]> Manifeste contre le travail 3246403 110 Gruppe Krisis 2264037253 Humphrey 4 3.89 1999 Manifeste contre le travail
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]]> <![CDATA[The Revolution Happened and You Didn't Call Me]]> 15940562 67 Maged Zaher 0982420366 Humphrey 4 3.88 2012 The Revolution Happened and You Didn't Call Me
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]]> René Leys 1131462 432 Victor Segalen 2070411826 Humphrey 4 3.55 1919 René Leys
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]]> <![CDATA[2500 Random Things About Me Too]]> 15821841
Viegener limited himself to a single day for each list, leaving his topics unlimited while aiming to avoid repititions. His reflections wander through past and present—the writing and art scenes of New York and Los Angeles in the 80s and 90s, his sexual adventures, his friendship with Kathy Acker, and his current art practice as a co-founder of the Fallen Fruit collaborative. Neither memoir nor diary but with aspects of each, 2500 Random Things About Me Too recalls the work of Joe Brainard and John Cage. It is an experiment in the construction of identity in a Facebook-drenched world of self-manufacturing and short attention spans. Possibly the first book to have been composed entirely on Facebook, 2500 Random Things About Me Too is a text-cloud raining art, dogs, sex, death and fruit.]]> 255 Matias Viegener 1934254355 Humphrey 5 4.22 2012 2500 Random Things About Me Too
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story]]> 47968
When the Berlin Wall was still the most tangible representation of the Cold War, Peter Schneider made this political and ideological symbol into something personal, that could be perceived on a human level, from more than one side. In Schneider's Berlin, real people cross the Wall not to defect but to quarrel with their lovers, see Hollywood movies, and sometimes just because they can't help themselves—the Wall has divided their emotions as much as it has their country.

"An honest, rich book. . . . It is one those rare books that come back at odd moments to intrude on your comfortable conclusions and easy images."—Robert Houston, Nation]]> 144 Peter Schneider 0226739414 Humphrey 5 3.65 1982 The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story
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name: Humphrey
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This is really a great book! And short. One of my favorite books about the wall.
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