Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Modern Library Classics
An edition of Emerson's writings in trade paper format, with an introduction by the poet Mary Oliver.
The Essays, A selection by Michel Montaigne
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. "On ...Show more
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as ...Show more
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including "One-Way Street", his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germ ...Show more
How to Think Like a Woman - Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Live a Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, ...Show more
After Work - The Fight for Free Time by Helen Hester; Nick SRNICEK
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics Would you let a robot clean your house? When we think about work, we still tend to think about workplaces--if we think about reducing work, we think about reducing working hours and spending more time at home. But the home has never been free ...Show more
Self-Made - Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Dürer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you want to understand how we reinvent ourselves every time we reveal ourselves' PETER POMERANTSEV Today's defining celebrities have crafted public personae that walk the tightrope between authentici ...Show more
The Plague: Living death in our times by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century by Tamara Tenenbaum
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A feminist manifesto on howwe understand romantic love today A bold manifesto by a brilliant young mind on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships. In the twenty-first century, our romantic a ...Show more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature, philosophy and politics.Written w ...Show more
Coming of Age in the War on Terror: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'One minute you're a 15-year old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.' The generation born at the time of the 9/11 attacks are turning 18. What has our changed world meant for them? We now have a generation - Muslim and non-Muslim - who have grown up only ...Show more