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Aristotle's Poetics
Aristotle; Translated by S. H. Butcher; Introduction by Francis Fergusson
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Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental...
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The Limits of Power
The End of American Exceptionalism
American Empire Project
Andrew Bacevich
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
“This compact, meaty volume ought to be on the reading list of every candidate for national office in November's elections. In an age of cant and baloney, Andrew Bacevich offers a bracing slap of reality.
The Limits of Power
is gracefully written and easy to read . . . chockablock with provocative ideas and stern judgments. Bacevich's brand of intellectual assuredness is rare in today's public debates. Many of our talking heads and commentators are cocksure, of course, but few combine confidence with knowledge and deep thought the way Bacevich does here. His big argument is elegant and powerful.”—
The Washington Post
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Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes; Translated by Stephen Heath
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These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena...
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Empire of Signs
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard
Hill and Wang
With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented...
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Elements of Semiology
Roland Barthes; Translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith
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"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which...
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S/Z
An Essay
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Miller; Preface by Richard Howard
Hill and Wang
Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Miller
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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions...
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A Lover's Discourse
Fragments
Roland Barthes; Translated from the French by Richard Howard; Foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum
Hill and Wang
"Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is
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a writing out of the discourse of love. This language—primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner—is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in
A Lover's Discourse
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Jonathan Culler
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Camera Lucida
Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes; Translated from the French by Richard Howard; Foreword by Geoff Dyer
Hill and Wang
"This is a great book—flawed, impossible, infuriating, and moving . . . but he has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the 'intractable reality' of the human condition."
—Douglas Davis,
Newsweek
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The Proper Study of Mankind
An Anthology of Essays
Isaiah Berlin; Edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer; Forward by Noel Annan; Introduction by Roger Hausheer
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Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated...
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The Sense of Reality
Studies in Ideas and Their History
Sir Isaiah Berlin; Edited by Henry Hardy; Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"For anyone wanting to understand the history of ideas, this book will be indispensable."
—John Gray,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Great Ape Project
Equality Beyond Humanity
Edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer
St. Martin's Griffin
A compelling and revolutionary work that calls for the immediate extension of our human rights to the great apes. The Great Ape Project looks forward to a...
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The American Creed
A Biography of the Declaration of Independence
Forrest Church
St. Martin's Griffin
What makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident."...
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A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues
The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life
André Comte-Sponville
Picador
"The strength of this work lies in the exclusion of any mawkish moralizing and in showing us how being virtuous is the best way to affirm our humanity. We follow the author step by step, learning with him how to cultivate the higher inclinations of the heart and the mind to become, at last, the masters and judges of our selves."—
Pascal Bruckner,
Le Nouvel Observateur
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Logicomix
An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA
An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This exceptional graphic novel recounts the...
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The Art Instinct
Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Denis Dutton
Bloomsbury Press
"[Dutton’s] discussion of the arts and of our responses to them is uniformly insightful and penetrating . . . he touches on all the major issues of aesthetics in this fairly short book and invariably illuminates them . . . Dutton’s eloquent account sheds light on the role art plays in our lives, whatever its ultimate origins"
—Anthony Gottlieb,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
An American Pilgrimage
Paul Elie
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Winner of the Christopher Award
"An ingeniously woven literary tapestry that tells the stories of four great American Catholic writers of the 20th century—[Walker] Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day . . . In Elie's deeply moving study, imperfection is both the starting point of spiritual journeys and the stuff of which wisdom literature is made. [Elie] uses the four authors' lives and work—their pilgrimages, as he says—to explore 'a larger story of the convergence of literature and religion in the 20th century' and to learn from their complicated struggles toward God in a country that is at the same time abnormally religious and unusually devoted to Mammon . . . Inspiring and deeply intelligent."—
Lance Morrow,
Time
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Choosing Civility
The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct
P. M. Forni
St. Martin's Griffin
"
Choosing Civility
is a beautiful book that lifts the spirit, warms the heart, and provides clear direction for a balanced life."—
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D., author of
The Power of Empathy
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The Civility Solution
What to Do When People Are Rude
P. M. Forni
St. Martin's Griffin
"Though his new book deals with many kinds of incivility, Dr. Forni has devoted a sizeable chunk of it to workplace and high-tech rudeness . . . his approach to incivility is rooted in his academic career researching and teaching Italian literature. Some fundamentals of good behavior, he says, go back hundreds of years."—
The Wall Street Journal
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Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault
Picador
"The English translation of
Security, Territory and Population
is a major event not only for Anglophone readers of Foucault’s work, but for all those concerned with understanding our present social and political condition. These lectures show that the trenchant analysis of biopower, 'power over life,' which Foucault had begun in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and which he pursues here in terms of technologies of security, led him to a decisively deeper and more radical formulation of his guiding problematic—what he called 'the government of the self and others'—the issue that would serve as the basis for all his subsequent work.
Security, Territory and Population
might thus properly be called the ‘missing link’ that reveals the underlying unity of Foucault’s later thought . . . Burchell’s translation is meticulous, supple, and attentive to the nuances of Foucault’s fluid lecture style. We all stand in his debt."—
Kevin Thompson, Book Review Editor,
Continental Philosophy Review
, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
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The Birth of Biopolitics
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault
Picador
This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics. A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of
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"Society Must Be Defended"
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by David Macey; Edited by Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the...
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Abnormal
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell
Picador
"The importance of these lectures is that they are directly connected with two of Foucault's greatest books,
Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
. Because they are clear and to the point, the lectures throw considerable light on the more difficult ideas and passages of their related published works . . . [
Abnormal
] looks at a set of what Foucault believed to be defining criminal cases of how the West has constituted and reconstituted what is normal and not normal behavior."—
Charles Mudede,
The Stranger
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The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Lectures at the Collège de France 1981--1982
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"Is the 'self' capable of reaching the truth when only equipped with knowledge? Or can it attain the truth without a 'long labor of ascesis?' Why is the concept of the 'care of the self' neglected by Western thought despite its vital role in constructing the concept of 'know yourself?' These ethical questions and more are elegantly discussed in Foucault's third volume of lectures from the Collège de France."—
Sadiq Alkoriji, Tomball Library,
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