The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman ...Show more
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-admired Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, instead of sharing his love of literature, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of twenty-plus eminent thinkers ac ...Show more
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans - achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of ...Show more
Fear and Trembling - A New Translation by S¿ren Kierkegaard; Bruce H. Kirmmse (Translator)
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First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ("John of Silence"), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch, W. H. Auden, ...Show more
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the 'divide ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021. Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers a guide to what everybody is talking about today' Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Canons Ser. | Reading Level: good
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
How To Be A Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living by Massimo Pigliucci
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'In this thought-provoking book, Massimo Pigliucci shares his journey of discovering the power of Stoic practices in a philosophical dialogue with one of Stoicism's greatest teachers.' RYAN HOLIDAY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY AND THE DAILY STOIC Who am I? What am I doing? How ought ...Show more
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express, until now--from the creator of the popular online project of the same name.Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass ...Show more
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A much-needed guide to understanding gender, becoming a better trans ally, and making the world a better place. Gender is a human experience, not just a trans experience. Every single one of us has a relationship to gender, so how can we change the way we talk about it, challenge misconceptions, and be ...Show more