The Delusions of Crowds - Why People Go Mad in Groups by William L Bernstein
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries.
Desire and Its Interpretation - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques Lacan; Bruce Fink (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who might try to master it. It plays tricks on them. Yet if it is not r ...Show more
How To Be A Liberal (PB) by Ian Dunt
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A tour de force.' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Clear-eyed and hard-headed. His defence of liberalism is political writing at its most urgent and engaging .' - NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST'Dunt's gift for making complicated issues comprehensible is second to none. Courageous.' - JAMES O'BRIEN, LBCThe author ...Show more
Turin: Approaching Animals by David Brooks
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Our lives with non-human animals are characterised by a kind of unremitting contempt. Habits of life, traditions of thought, and failures of imagination have rendered us blind to their invitations to companionship within a shared world. And philosophy, alas, has offered little to assuage our moral inco ...Show more
You Don't Know Us Negroes And Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve West Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaiss ...Show more
The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga- Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths, which he has been working on for 15 years. ...Show more
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into beingTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Winner of the Stowe Prize 2021***Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cul ...Show more
Nietzsche in Turin: The End of the Future by Lesley Chamberlain
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Beautifully packaged reissue of the vividly lyrical biography of Nietzsche that John Banville called 'a major intellectual event'In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to Turin. This would be the year in which he wrote three of his greatest works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce ...Show more
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The story of our most fundamental human right - and why it is in grave danger. Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - f ...Show more
Mine! From Personal Space to Big Data, How Ownership Shapes Our Lives by Michael Heller; James Salzman
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A Freakonomics-style investigation into the mysteries of ownership, filled with counterintuitive insights and fascinating case studies.
The Panthers Can't Save Us Now - Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter by Cedric Johnson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality In the wake of the mass protests following the police murder of George Floyd nearly every major consumer brand had proclaimed their commitments to antiracism, often with new ad campaigns to match their tweets. Very little in t ...Show more
The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter by David Farrell Krell
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Category: Philosophy
Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately began. ...Show more