Edwardo's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:45:53 -0800 60 Edwardo'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 Edwardo 0 to-read 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 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.28 1867 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Spades and Other Stories]]> 97381 The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.]]> 336 Alexander Pushkin 0192839543 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.16 1841 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?]]> 6452731
Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets―Sandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.

Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise―an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.]]> 308 Michael J. Sandel 0374180652 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.30 2007 Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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]]> Oblomov 254308 586 Ivan Goncharov 1933480092 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.09 1859 Oblomov
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]]> Self and Others 305380 184 R.D. Laing 0415198194 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.03 1959 Self and Others
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]]> The Outsider 15686 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me'

Meursault will not conform. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach, his lack of remorse only compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and law.

Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurdity of human life became an existentialist classic. Yet it is also a book filled with quiet joy in the "tender indifference" of the physical world, and Sandra Smith's new translation based on listening to a recording of Camus reading aloud, sensitively renders the subtleties and dreamlike atmosphere of The Outsider.]]> 119 Albert Camus 0141182504 Edwardo 0 4.02 1942 The Outsider
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]]> The Dark 430368 The Dark, widely acclaimed, yet infamously banned, is John McGahern’s sensitive, perceptive, and beautifully written portrayal of a young man’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland. Imaginative and introverted, the boy is successful in school, but bitterly confused by the guilt-inducing questions he endures from the priests who should be his venerated guides. His relationship with his bullying, bigoted, widowed father is similarly conflicted � touched with both deep love and carefully suppressed hatred. When he must leave home to further his education, their relationship is drawn to an emotional climax that teaches both father and son some of the most intricate truths about manhood.]]> 191 John McGahern 0140277951 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.96 1965 The Dark
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing]]> 6736285 326 Joost A.M. Meerloo 1615773762 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.24 1956 The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
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]]> Kolyma Tales 109812
This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.]]> 508 Varlam Shalamov 0140186956 Edwardo 5 4.30 1966 Kolyma Tales
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]]> Are Prisons Obsolete? 108428
In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.]]> 128 Angela Y. Davis 1583225811 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.53 2003 Are Prisons Obsolete?
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]]> Life and Fate 88432 Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war.

Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

Librarian's Note: This is an alternative cover edition of ISBN13: 9780099506164]]> 864 Vasily Grossman Edwardo 0 to-read 4.42 1960 Life and Fate
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook]]> 129909 The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, he tells their stories of trauma and transformation through the lens of science, revealing the brain's astonishing capacity for healing. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what exactly happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress-and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease a child's pain and help him grow into a healthy adult. Through the stories of children who recover-physically, mentally, and emotionally-from the most devastating circumstances, Perry shows how simple things like surroundings, affection, language, and touch can deeply impact the developing brain, for better or for worse. In this deeply informed and moving book, Bruce Perry dramatically demonstrates that only when we understand the science of the mind can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.]]> 288 Bruce D. Perry 0465056520 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.59 2007 The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> The Power of Myth 35519 293 Joseph Campbell 0385418868 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.26 1988 The Power of Myth
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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)]]> 146746 The Jewel in the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence.]]> 472 Paul Scott 0226743403 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.15 1966 The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories]]> 608178 148 Adam Phillips 0465056768 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.82 1999 Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions]]> 8423939
This book elaborates on the seven emotional systems that explain how we live and behave. These systems originate in deep areas of the brain that are remarkably similar across all mammalian species. When they are disrupted, we find the origins of emotional disorders:

- SEEKING: how the brain generates a euphoric and expectant response

- FEAR: how the brain responds to the threat of physical danger and death

- RAGE: sources of irritation and fury in the brain

- LUST: how sexual desire and attachments are elaborated in the brain

- CARE: sources of maternal nurturance

- GRIEF: sources of non-sexual attachments

- PLAY: how the brain generates joyous, rough-and-tumble interactions

- SELF: a hypothesis explaining how affects might be elaborated in the brain

The book offers an evidence-based evolutionary taxonomy of emotions and affects and, as such, a brand-new clinical paradigm for treating psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.]]> 592 Jaak Panksepp 0393705315 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.46 2010 The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
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]]> <![CDATA[Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions]]> 334755 480 Jaak Panksepp 019517805X Edwardo 0 to-read 4.40 1998 Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
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]]> <![CDATA[The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry]]> 565631 976 Henri F. Ellenberger 0465016731 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.47 1970 The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
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]]> <![CDATA[Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series)]]> 417612 288 Margot Waddell 1855759373 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.17 1998 Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought]]> 80452 320 Stephen A. Mitchell 0465014054 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.16 1995 Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
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]]> <![CDATA[The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays]]> 213144 220 Hans-Georg Gadamer 0521339537 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.30 1986 The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
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]]> Truth and Method 213142 Truth and Method is Gadamer's magnum opus. An astonishing synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, theology, the theory of law and classical scholarship, it is undoubtedly one of the most important texts in twentieth century philosophy. Looking behind the self-consciousness of science, he discusses the tense relationship between truth and methodology. In examining the different experiences of truth, he aims to "present the hermeneutic phenomenon in its fullest extent."]]> 640 Hans-Georg Gadamer 082647697X Edwardo 0 to-read 4.15 1960 Truth and Method
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]]> The Wings of the Dove 124272 The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, �The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”]]> 741 Henry James 0812967194 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.81 1902 The Wings of the Dove
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]]> On Wanting to Change 53442133
We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.

We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too.

We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.

So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don't always go, or come, together . . .

This sparkling book is about that fact.]]> 160 Adam Phillips 0241291771 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.63 2021 On Wanting to Change
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]]> Cancer Ward 254316 Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous� Soviet police state.]]> 576 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Edwardo 0 4.22 1967 Cancer Ward
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution]]> 9704856
Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Manand one of our mostimportant political thinkers,provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, The Originsof Political Orderbegins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning ofthe rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.

Drawing on a vast body of knowledge—history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics—Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents.]]> 585 Francis Fukuyama 0374227349 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.16 2011 The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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]]> <![CDATA[Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure]]> 337520 328 René Girard 0801818303 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.26 1961 Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
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]]> <![CDATA[Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World]]> 337517 Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the reader compelled to respond, one way or another.

This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort), Girard probes an encyclopedic array of topics, ranging across the entire spectrum of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and cultural production.

Girard's point o departure is what he calls 'mimesis,' the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in indiscriminate violence. In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the 'scapegoating mechanism,' in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order.

How does Christianity, at once the most 'sacrificial' of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud—if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not because God willed it, but because human beings wanted it.

The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history—the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.]]> 470 René Girard 0804722153 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.26 1978 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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]]> Fathers and Sons 19117
Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world.

Introduction by Jane Costlow]]> 244 Ivan Turgenev 0451529693 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.99 1862 Fathers and Sons
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]]> <![CDATA[Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?]]> 935894 282 Galen Strawson 1845400593 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.05 2006 Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?
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]]> Freedom and Belief 1095873 the main body of his book to an attempt to explain why we continue to believe as we do, Strawson examines various aspects of the "cognitive phenomenology" of freedom--the nature, causes, and consequences of our deep commitment to belief in freedom.]]> Galen Strawson 0198249381 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.15 1987 Freedom and Belief
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]]> <![CDATA[Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.]]> 36613059
Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly—in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, “A Fallacy of Our Age� (an inspiration for Vendela Vida’s novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name ) takes issue with the commencement-address cliché that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. “The Sense of the Self� offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. “Real Naturalism� argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as a whole (also known as panpsychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s.

Drawing on literature and life as much as on philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.]]> 240 Galen Strawson 1681372207 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.97 Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.
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]]> Divine Love and Wisdom 1157332 352 Emanuel Swedenborg 0877854815 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.35 1764 Divine Love and Wisdom
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]]> Is God Happy? Selected Essays 13645481 Independent

In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age.

Leszek Kolakowski has also written on religion, Spinoza, Bergson, Pascal and seventeenth-century thought. He left communist Poland after his expulsion from Warsaw University for anti-communist activities. From 1970 he was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

'His distinctive mix of irony and moral seriousness, religious sensibility and epistemological scepticism, social engagement and political doubt was truly rare ... a true Central European intellectual-perhaps the last' Tony Judt, The New York Times Review of Books]]> 327 Leszek Kołakowski 0141389559 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.08 2009 Is God Happy? Selected Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown]]> 143294 1284 Leszek Kołakowski 0393060543 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.27 1976 Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
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]]> <![CDATA[The Conspiracy Against the Human Race]]> 8524528
"There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world."**

His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work.]]> 240 Thomas Ligotti 098242969X Edwardo 0 to-read 4.04 2011 The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
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]]> <![CDATA[The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom]]> 22929481 Compared with that of humans, the life of the marionette looks more like an enviable state of freedom

In his brilliantly enjoyable and freewheeling new book, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic, and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces—logical, physical, metaphysical—constrain our every action. Many writers and intellectuals have always understood this, but instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a "human dominion" almost comically at odds with our true state.
Filled with wonderful examples and drawing on the widest possible reading (from the Gnostics to Philip K. Dick), The Soul of the Marionette is a stimulating and engaging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the title.]]> 192 John Gray 0374261180 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.82 2015 The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom
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]]> Seven Types of Atheism 36482672
The result is a book that sheds an extraordinary and varied light on what it is to be human and on the thinkers who have, at different times and places, battled to understand this issue.]]> 182 John Gray 0241199417 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.84 2018 Seven Types of Atheism
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths]]> 16059367
In a book by turns chilling and beautiful, John Gray continues the thinking that made his Straw Dogs such a cult classic. Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction, and philosophy to re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Conrad, and Freud have been mesmerized by forms of human extremity―experiences that are on the outer edge of the possible or that tip into fantasy and myth. What happens to us when we starve, when we fight, when we are imprisoned? And how do our imaginations leap into worlds way beyond our real experiences? The Silence of Animals is consistently fascinating, filled with unforgettable images and a delight in the conundrum of human existence―an existence that we decorate with countless myths and ideas, where we twist and turn to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals, separated from the others perhaps only by our self-conceit. In the Babel we have created for ourselves, it is the silence of animals that both reproaches and bewitches us.]]> 240 John Gray 0374229171 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.89 2013 The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
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]]> Psychology 51254524 750 Peter O. Gray 1319150519 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.18 1991 Psychology
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]]> <![CDATA[Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)]]> 123845 Essays, First Series (1841) and Essays, Second Series (1844), offer a representative sampling of his views outlining that moral idealism as well as a hint of the later skepticism that colored his thought. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet," and "Experience," plus the well-known and frequently read Harvard Divinity School Address.]]> 117 Ralph Waldo Emerson 0486277909 Edwardo 0 4.13 1844 Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
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]]> Waiting for Godot 17716 109 Samuel Beckett Edwardo 0 to-read 3.85 1952 Waiting for Godot
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]]> <![CDATA[Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity]]> 37858
The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor's goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.]]> 624 Charles Margrave Taylor Edwardo 0 to-read 4.25 1989 Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
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]]> <![CDATA[Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics]]> 43219
Updated with a new preface, this is a fundamental text for understanding the workings of hegemony and grasping the nature of contemporary social struggles and their significance for democratic theory.]]> 198 Ernesto Laclau 1859843301 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.88 1985 Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
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]]> On Populist Reason 43220 La razón populista, Ernesto Laclau vuelve a concentrarse en uno de los temas que lo han ocupado en su larga trayectoria intelectual, ya desde Política e ideología en la teoría marxista. El populismo, práctica política históricamente desdeñada, es aquí vuelto a pensar como lógica social y modo de construir lo político desde un enfoque que se aleja definitivamente del punto de vista sociológico. Sus hipótesis —basadas en el postestructuralismo y la teoría lacaniana� son puestas a prueba al analizar la conformación del populismo estadounidense, del kemalismo turco y del peronismo de la resistencia.
Su reformulación del concepto de “pueblo� lo lleva a retomar la discusión con Slavoj Zizek, que había quedado inconclusa en Contingencia, hegemonía, universalidad, en torno a la sobredeterminación de la identidad política. Cuestiona asimismo la caracterización de la multitud que plantearon Michael Hardt y Toni Negri en Imperio para poner el acento en el poder unificador de las demandas.
La razón populista aporta una nueva dimensión al análisis de la lucha hegemónica y de la formación de las identidades sociales, que es fundamental para comprender los triunfos y fracasos de los movimientos populares, y avanza un paso más en el proyecto político de una democracia radical en el actual escenario de un capitalismo globalizado.]]> 276 Ernesto Laclau 1859846513 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.03 2002 On Populist Reason
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]]> <![CDATA[Politics and ideology in Marxist theory: Capitalism, fascism, populism]]> 1639217 English, French (translation) Ernesto Laclau 0902308742 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.93 1979 Politics and ideology in Marxist theory: Capitalism, fascism, populism
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]]> Statism and Anarchy 436348 300 Mikhail Bakunin 0521369738 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.82 1873 Statism and Anarchy
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]]> On Anarchism 203890 453 Mikhail Bakunin 0919619061 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.12 1972 On Anarchism
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]]> God and the State 436351 God and the State, remained unfinished, although it is the torso of a giant.
God and the State has been a basic anarchist and radical document for generations. It is one of the clearest statements of the anarchist philosophy of history: religion by its nature is an impoverishment, enslavement, and annihilation of humanity. It is the weapon of the state. It must be smashed, according to Bakunin, before the right of self-determination can be possible. As an introduction to anarchist thought, a manifesto of atheism, or as a summing-up of the thoughts of Bakunin, God and the State remains a mind-opening experience, even for those basically unsympathetic to its premise.]]> 90 Mikhail Bakunin 048622483X Edwardo 0 to-read 3.80 1882 God and the State
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]]> <![CDATA[Security Analysis: The Classic 1951 Edition]]> 203409 784 Benjamin Graham 0071448209 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.27 1934 Security Analysis: The Classic 1951 Edition
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]]> The Ego and Its Own 416318 432 Max Stirner 0521450160 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.05 1844 The Ego and Its Own
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]]> Cruel Optimism 11347563
Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.]]> 342 Lauren Berlant 0822351110 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.15 2011 Cruel Optimism
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]]> Forever Flowing 88459 'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read'
Antony Beevor

Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan's fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps and Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's lover, who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3.

Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed Life and Fate.

'Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR' Martin Amis]]> 247 Vasily Grossman 0810115034 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.14 1972 Forever Flowing
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]]> The Complete Poems 138134
Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats," proclaimed The New Republic--"An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies."

Now this scholarship is at last available in a graceful, clear format designed to introduce students and general readers to the "real" Keats. In place of the textual apparatus that was essential to scholars, Stillinger here provides helpful explanatory notes. These notes give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.]]> 416 John Keats 0679601082 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.25 1820 The Complete Poems
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]]> Letters of John Keats 138139 448 John Keats 0192810812 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.37 1954 Letters of John Keats
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]]> <![CDATA[The Philosophy of Existentialism]]> 154113 128 Gabriel Marcel 0806509015 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.86 1956 The Philosophy of Existentialism
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]]> Being and Having 1242857 Gabriel Marcel 1406754366 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.03 1935 Being and Having
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]]> Man Against Mass Society 1242859 208 Gabriel Marcel 1587314908 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.03 1951 Man Against Mass Society
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]]> The Art of War 99324 The Art of War is far from an anachronism—its pages outline fundamental questions that theorists of war continue to examine today, making it essential reading for any student of military history, strategy, or theory. Machiavelli believed The Art of War to be his most important work.]]> 247 Niccolò Machiavelli 030681076X Edwardo 0 to-read 4.10 1521 The Art of War
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]]> The Discourses 99328 The Discourses (c. 1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics. In this carefully argued commentary on Livy's history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfish, personal interests. Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics.

Leslie J. Walker's translation, revised by Brian Richardson, is accompanied by an introduction by Bernard Crick, which illuminates Machiavelli's historical context and his new theories of politics. This edition also includes suggestions for further reading and notes.]]> 544 Niccolò Machiavelli 0140444289 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.07 1517 The Discourses
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]]> The Prince 28862
1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people.
2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him.
3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose.
4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory.
5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression.
6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope.
7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters,
8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure.
9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice
10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.]]> 144 Niccolò Machiavelli 0937832383 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.85 1513 The Prince
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]]> The Enneads 26252 The Enneads bring together Neoplatonism--mystic passion and ideas from Greek philosophy--together with striking variants of the Trinity and other central Christian doctrines, to produce a highly original synthesis.]]> 688 Plotinus 014044520X Edwardo 0 to-read 4.06 250 The Enneads
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters]]> 662867 Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author�, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the great themes of existence through the prism of his own self-consciousness. Apparent in every line he wrote, his virtues of tolerance, moderation and disinterested inquiry amount to an undeclared manifesto for the Enlightenment, whose prophet he is. This complete edition of his works supplements the Essays with travel diaries and letters, thereby completing the portrait of a true Renaissance man.]]> 1336 Michel de Montaigne Edwardo 0 to-read 4.41 1592 The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
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]]> The Complete Essays 30735 The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.

In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by the ideas he found in books contained in his library and from his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. But, above all, Montaigne studied himself as a way of drawing out his own inner nature and that of men and women in general. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature and provide an engaging insight into a wise Renaissance mind, continuing to give pleasure and enlightenment to modern readers.

With its extensive introduction and notes, M.A. Screech's edition of Montaigne is widely regarded as the most distinguished of recent times.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1586) studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection.

If you enjoyed The Complete Essays, you might like Francois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, also available in Penguin Classics.

'Screech's fine version ... must surely serve as the definitive English Montaigne'
A.C. Grayling, Financial Times

'A superb edition'
Nicholas Wollaston, Observer]]> 1344 Michel de Montaigne 0140446044 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.24 1580 The Complete Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Naked Lunch: The Restored Text]]> 7437 Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted a significant influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs’s notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent new material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript, which predates the first published version. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.]]> 289 William S. Burroughs 0802140181 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.48 1959 Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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]]> On disbelieving atrocities 34678366
It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; and it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch. I have photographs before me on the desk while I am writing this, and that accounts for my emotion and bitterness. People died to smuggle them out of Poland; they thought it was worth while.

The facts have been published in pamphlets, White Books, newspapers, magazines and what not. But the other day I met one of the best-known American journalists over here. He told me that in the course of some recent public opinion survey nine out of ten average American citizens, when asked whether they believed that the Nazis commit atrocities, answered that it was all propaganda lies, and that they didn't believe a word of it.

As to this country, I have been lecturing now for three years to the troops and their attitude is the same. They don't believe in concentration camps, they don't believe in the starved children of Greece, in the shot hostages of France, in the mass-graves of Poland; they have never heard of Lidice, Treblinka or Belzec; you can convince them for an hour, then they shake themselves, their mental self-defence begins to work and in a week the shrug of incredulity has returned like a reflex temporarily weakened by a shock.

Clearly all this is becoming a mania with me and my like. Clearly we must suffer from some morbid obsession, whereas the others are healthy and normal. But the characteristic symptom of maniacs is that they lose contact with reality and live in a phantasy world. So, perhaps, it is the other way round: perhaps it is we, the screamers, who react in a sound and healthy way to the reality which surrounds us, whereas you are the neurotics who totter about in a screened phantasy world because you lack the faculty to face the facts. Were it not so, this war would have been avoided, and those murdered within sight of your day-dreaming eyes would still be alive.]]> 10 Arthur Koestler Edwardo 0 to-read 4.50 On disbelieving atrocities
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation]]> 22471 265 Matt Ridley 0140264450 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.03 1997 The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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]]> Beyond freedom and dignity 40815304 Great book 215 B.F. Skinner 0553101382 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.44 1971 Beyond freedom and dignity
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]]> Main Street 11376 Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate acclaim when it was published in 1920. It remains one of the essential texts of the American scene. Lewis Mumford observed: "In Main Street an American had at last written of our life with something of the intellectual rigor and critical detachment that had seemed so cruel and unjustified [in Charles Dickens and Matthew Arnold]. Young people had grown up in this environment, suffocated, stultified, helpless, but unable to find any reason for their spiritual discomfort. Mr. Lewis released them." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota and graduated from Yale in 1907. In 1930 he became the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Main Street (1920) was his first critical and commercial success. Lewis's other noted books include Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).']]> 454 Sinclair Lewis 0375753141 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.78 1920 Main Street
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]]> The Battle for God 27309 The Battle for God. Writing with the broad perspective and deep understanding of human spirituality that won huge audiences for A History of God, Armstrong illuminates the spread of militant piety as a phenomenon peculiar to our moment in history.

Contrary to popular belief, fundamentalism is not a throwback to some ancient form of religion but rather a response to the spiritual crisis of the modern world. As Armstrong argues, the collapse of a piety rooted in myth and cult during the Renaissance forced people of faith to grasp for new ways of being religious--and fundamentalism was born. Armstrong focuses here on three fundamentalist movements: Protestant fundamentalism in America, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, and Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt and Iran--exploring how each has developed its own unique way of combating the assaults of modernity.

Blending history, sociology, and spirituality, The Battle for God is a compelling and compassionate study of a radical form of religious expression that is critically shaping the course of world history.]]> 480 Karen Armstrong 0345391691 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.94 2000 The Battle for God
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]]> <![CDATA[Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)]]> 27306
Islam: A Short History begins with the flight of Muhammad and his family from Medina in the seventh century and the subsequent founding of the first mosques. It recounts the origins of the split between Shii and Sunni Muslims, and the emergence of Sufi mysticism; the spread of Islam throughout North Africa, the Levant, and Asia; the shattering effect on the Muslim world of the Crusades; the flowering of imperial Islam in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries into the world's greatest and most sophisticated power; and the origins and impact of revolutionary Islam. It concludes with an assessment of Islam today and its challenges.

With this brilliant book, Karen Armstrong issues a forceful challenge to those who hold the view that the West and Islam are civilizations set on a collision course. It is also a model of authority, elegance, and economy.]]> 230 Karen Armstrong 081296618X Edwardo 0 to-read 4.07 2000 Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam]]> 3873 496 Karen Armstrong 0517223120 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.89 1993 A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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]]> Plutarch's Lives: Volume II 279456
The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.]]> 706 Plutarch 0375756779 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.20 2015 Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
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]]> Plutarch's Lives 3679100 1333 Plutarch 0394604075 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.20 100 Plutarch's Lives
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]]> <![CDATA[The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now]]> 40603783 not the new twenty. In this enlightening book, Dr. Meg Jay reveals how many twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation that has trivialized what are actually the most defining years of adulthood. Drawing from more than ten years of work with hundreds of twentysomething clients and students, Dr. Jay weaves the science of the twentysomething years with compelling, behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings themselves. She shares what psychologists, sociologists, neurologists, reproductive specialists, human resources executives, and economists know about the unique power of our twenties and how they change our lives. The result is a provocative and sometimes poignant read that shows us why our twenties do matter. Our twenties are a time when the things we do--and the things we don't do--will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come.]]> 273 Meg Jay Edwardo 0 to-read 4.09 2012 The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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]]> <![CDATA[Industrial Society and Its Future]]> 225468 149 Theodore John Kaczynski Edwardo 0 to-read 3.88 1995 Industrial Society and Its Future
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]]> Technological Slavery 45035203 Technological Slaveryradically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth.Wild nature and humanity are fundamentally incompatible with technological growth.

Technological Slavery, Kaczynski argues that: (i) the unfolding human and environmental crises are the direct, inevitable result of technology itself; (ii) many of the stresses endured in contemporary life are not normal to the human condition, but unique to technological conditions; (iii) wilderness and human life close to nature are realistic and supreme ideals; and, (iv) a revolution to eliminate modern technology and attain these ideals is necessary and far more achievable than would first appear.

Drawing ona broad range of disciplines, Kaczynski weaves together a set of visionary social theories to form a revolutionary perspective on the dynamics of history and the evolution of societies. The result is a comprehensive challenge to the fundamental values and assumptions of the modern technology-driven world, pinning the cause of the rapidly unfolding catastrophe on technology itself, while offering a realistic hope for ultimate recovery.

Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.]]> 355 Theodore John Kaczynski 1944228012 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.24 2010 Technological Slavery
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]]> <![CDATA[The Subversion of Christianity (English and French Edition)]]> 274828 224 Jacques Ellul 0802800491 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.26 2006 The Subversion of Christianity (English and French Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes]]> 274826 --Los Angeles Times

"The theme of Propaganda is quite simply...that when our new technology encompasses any culture or society, the result is propaganda... Ellul has made many splendid contributions in this book."
--Book Week

"An exhaustive catalog of horrors. It shows how modern, committed man, surrounded and seized by propaganda, more often than not surrenders himself to it only too willingly, especially in democracies--because he is educated for his rule as dupe. 'The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him,' Ellul writes, 'is when he is alone in the mass; it is at this point that propaganda can be most effective. This is the situation of the 'lonely crowd,' or of isolation in the mass, which is a natural product of modern-day society, which is both used and deepened by the mass media.' "
--Los Angeles Free Press]]> 352 Jacques Ellul 0394718747 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.27 1962 Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
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]]> The Technological Society 274827
Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology-which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind-threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book.

"A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process."-Harper's

"One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself-unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs."-The Nation

"A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance."-Los Angeles Free Press]]> 449 Jacques Ellul 0394703901 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.31 1954 The Technological Society
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]]> The Birth of Tragedy 2823 The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture and in literary criticism.]]> 121 Friedrich Nietzsche 0140433392 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.01 1871 The Birth of Tragedy
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]]> <![CDATA[Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire]]> 978934
“Graeber’s ideas are rich and wide-ranging; he pushes us to expand the boundaries of what we admit to be possible, or even thinkable.”—Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University In this new collection, David Graeber revisits questions raised in his popular book, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology . Written in an unpretentious style that uses accessible and entertaining language to convey complex theoretical ideas, these twelve essays cover a lot of ground, including the origins of capitalism, the history of European table manners, love potions in rural Madagascar, and the phenomenology of giant puppets at street protests. But they’re linked by a clear to explore the nature of social power and the forms that resistance to it have taken, or might take in the future. Anarchism is currently undergoing a worldwide revival, in many ways replacing Marxism as the theoretical and moral center of new revolutionary social movements. It has, however, left little mark on the academy. While anarchists and other visionaries have turned to anthropology for ideas and inspiration, anthropologists are reluctant to enter into serious dialogue. David Graeber is not. These essays, spanning almost twenty years, show how scholarly concerns can be of use to radical social movements, and how the perspectives of such movements shed new light on debates within the academy. David Graeber has written for Harper’s Magazine , New Left Review , and numerous scholarly journals. He is the author or editor of four books and currently lives in New York City. In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.]]> 400 David Graeber 1904859666 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.24 2007 Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
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]]> <![CDATA[The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge]]> 252648 144 Jean-François Lyotard 0816611734 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.84 1979 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
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]]> <![CDATA[The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion]]> 11324722 An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780307377906 can be found here.

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.

His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.]]> 419 Jonathan Haidt Edwardo 0 to-read 4.18 2012 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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]]> <![CDATA[A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works]]> 2677 Gulliver’s Travels is, of course, his world renowned masterpiece in the genre; however, Swift wrote other, shorter works that also offer excellent evidence of his inspired lampoonery. Perhaps the most famous of these is A Modest Proposal, in which he straight-facedly suggests that Ireland could solve its hunger problems by using its children for food. Also included in this collection are The Battle of Books, A Meditation upon a Broomstick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit and An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England.
This inexpensive edition will certainly be welcomed by teachers and students of English literature, but its appeal extends to any reader who delights in watching a master satirist wield words as weapons.]]> 64 Jonathan Swift 0486287599 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.06 1729 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
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]]> A Modest Proposal 5206937
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, who were predominantly Irish Catholic, as well as British policy towards the Irish in general.]]> 48 Jonathan Swift 1605977276 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.04 1729 A Modest Proposal
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]]> Gulliver’s Travels 7733 A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 306 Jonathan Swift 0141439491 Edwardo 0 to-read 3.59 1726 Gulliver’s Travels
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]]> <![CDATA[Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud]]> 408204 852 Peter Watson 0060935642 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.35 2005 Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
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]]> <![CDATA[The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century]]> 8155672 The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy, The German Genius is a lively and accessible review of over 250 years of German intellectual history. In the process, it explains the devastating effects of World War II, which transformed a vibrant and brilliantly artistic culture into a vehicle of warfare and destruction, and it shows how the German culture advanced in the war’s aftermath.]]> 992 Peter Watson 0060760222 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.20 2010 The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
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]]> <![CDATA[Mahabharata (Great Classics of India)]]> 118251 940 Anonymous 1887089136 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.43 1951 Mahabharata (Great Classics of India)
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]]> <![CDATA[Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism]]> 13187377
Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a newperiod of transition. In Less Than Nothing, the product of a career-long focus onthe part of its author, Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return toHegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitationsby being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach notonly enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in acritical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou,speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity willbegin and end with Hegel.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 1056 Slavoj Žižek 1844678970 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.15 2012 Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
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]]> Cupid and Psyche 80084 256 Apuleius 0521278139 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.05 170 Cupid and Psyche
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]]> The Golden Ass 80081 An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats

Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and initiates Lucius into her cult. It has long been disputed whether Apuleius meant this last-minute conversion seriously or as a final comic surprise and the challenge of interpretation continues to keep readers fascinated. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and The Golden Ass remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.
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]]> Makers of Rome 835478
The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives , they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as soldierly Marcellus, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius. Here too are vivid portraits of ambitious, hot-tempered Coriolanus; objective, principled Brutus and open-hearted Mark Anthony, who would later be brought to life by Shakespeare. In recounting the lives of these great leaders, Plutarch also explores the problems of statecraft and power and illustrates the Roman people's genius for political compromise, which led to their mastery of the ancient world.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.]]> 366 Plutarch 0140441581 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.19 100 Makers of Rome
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fall of the Roman Republic]]> 55002

Rome's famed historian illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 to 43 BC in succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesmen of the classical period.

Includes a new introduction, a new essay on the revised Plutarch editions, notes, a glossary, and updated suggestions for further reading

Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero]]> 414 Plutarch 0140449345 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.12 100 The Fall of the Roman Republic
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]]> Plutarch's Lives: Volume I 415634
Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa, Solon, Poplicola, Themistocles, Camillus, Pericles, Fabius, Alcibiadas, Coriolanes, Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Marcus Cato, Philopoemen, Flaminius, Pyrrhus, Caius Marius, Lysander, Sylla, Cimon, Lucullus, Nicias, Crassus]]> 766 Plutarch 0375756760 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.10 100 Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
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]]> <![CDATA[Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained]]> 336518

Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.]]> 400 John Milton 0451524748 Edwardo 0 to-read 4.09 1667 Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
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