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Mourning Freud
Madelon Sprengnether’s Mourning Freud is a penetrating exposition of the dynamics between Freud’s personal experiences of mourning and the evolution of psychoanalytic theory throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This richly textured work unravels the psychological, biographical, and cultural dimensions of Freud’s life, situating his struggles with loss at the nexus of his theoretical framework,…
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‘Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis’ by Sigmund Freud
Few works in the field of psychology have endured with as much intellectual consequence, as much capacity to provoke thought and reflection, and as much historical gravitas as Sigmund Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. The present edition, translated by G. Stanley Hall, is not merely a straightforward rendering of Freud’s original German text, but as…
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Lacan and Language: A Reader’s Guide to Écrits
This book stands as an extraordinarily rigorous and lucidly subtle instrument designed to guide any serious reader through the labyrinthine terrain that constitutes Jacques Lacan’s Écrits. Its authors, John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, address themselves to a daunting intellectual challenge: to bring into focus a complex variety of thought in which Jacques Lacan’s…
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The Ages of the World (1811)
This extraordinary volume presents the earliest existing draft of F. W. J. Schelling’s The Ages of the World (Die Weltalter) from 1811, translated and introduced by Joseph P. Lawrence. It is a document of immeasurable significance for those who would understand not just Schelling’s philosophical evolution and the epoch of German Idealism, but also the…
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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life is a work that both demands and resists easy classification, emerging as a monumental philosophical opus crafted in the wake of catastrophe and sustained by an unremitting critical energy. Written by Theodor W. Adorno, one of the most mercilessly lucid and unflinchingly honest thinkers of the twentieth century, it…
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Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger
Waller R. Newell’s Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger invites the reader into a vast intellectual landscape stretching from the twilight of the ancient world to the cataclysms of twentieth-century totalitarianism and beyond. In its scope, it captures the restless efforts of modern philosophers, beginning with Rousseau, to restore a sense of integral community and…
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In the Presence of Schopenhauer
In the Presence of Schopenhauer by Michel Houellebecq is a book whose entire existence seems predicated on unveiling a hidden yet all-pervasive gravitational field of philosophical influence that radiates silently from the works of a German philosopher whose name we instinctively associate with both radical pessimism and a fierce, unyielding quest for fundamental truth. This…
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‘Being and Truth’ by Martin Heidegger
In Martin Heidegger’s Being and Truth, one encounters a text of extraordinary philosophical and interpretive complexity, a work that demands a kind of attentiveness beyond the usual forms of philosophical reading, a work which emerges from a time and place marked by intense political upheaval and ideological fervor. These lectures, delivered in 1933–1934, originate in…
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Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason
Normativity and the Will by R. Jay Wallace is a remarkable engagement with some of the most pressing and conceptually subtle issues at the intersection of ethical theory, moral psychology, and the theory of practical reason. In this volume, Wallace collects fourteen of his own seminal essays, each of which provides a robust philosophical framework…
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Tariq Ali’s The Lenin Scenario
Within the pages of The Lenin Scenario, Tariq Ali ventures into historical imagination with extraordinary rigor, constructing a scenario as lucid in its detail as it is alive in its philosophical implications. What we encounter here is no mere screenplay, no ordinary chronology of events, but a painstakingly accurate dramatic blueprint for the cinematic interpretation…
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Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study
This book is an inquiry into the development between Lenin’s wartime philosophical notebooks on Hegel and the broader trajectory of Marxist thought, stretching from the crisis of the Second International through to debates in Western Marxism that reached well beyond Lenin’s own historical moment. In Kevin Anderson’s Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study,…
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
In The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, Antony Loewenstein presents a searing, unflinching, and extraordinary portrait of a modern state’s well-honed machinery of violence and surveillance, grown and cultivated through decades of controlling and subjugating the Palestinian population in the occupied territories, and then refashioned, rebranded, and sold…
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I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv by Illia Ponomarenko is a sprawling, unflinchingly intimate immersion into a conflict that most would prefer to keep at arm’s length. It is the book that punctures the neat categories of “us and them,” “invader and invaded,” and “hero and villain,” forcing readers…
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Psychoanalysis after Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition
In Psychoanalysis After Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition, Judy Gammelgaard undertakes a deeply philosophical exploration of the lingering significance, as well as the profound transformations, of Freud’s psychoanalytic project in the aftermath of his momentous discoveries. Drawing on several of Freud’s lesser-known works, Gammelgaard positions herself at a contemporary interpretive vantage point from which she…
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Freud’s Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body
Freud’s Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body by Rob White is an extraordinary and challenging intellectual venture into the most recalcitrant territories of Freudian theory, a work that refashions our understanding not only of Freud’s controversial notion of inherited memory but also of the deep melancholic undertow that runs through his entire conceptual edifice.…
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Lacan and the Limits of Language
Lacan and the Limits of Language by Charles Shepherdson is an extraordinarily rigorous analysis of the intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and the life sciences, a painstakingly elaborate exploration that refuses the comfort of established disciplinary boundaries and invites the reader to confront, with fearless intellectual candor, the fundamental questions that arise when language meets…
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
The following text is a depiction so unrelenting in the thoroughness of its philosophical inquiry, so immoderate in the density of its conceptual detail, that it seems to stand as a great cavern of thought into which the attentive reader must plunge, armed with nothing but the steadfastness of one’s reason and the lucidity of…
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Nietzsche and the Shadow of God
Nietzsche and the Shadow of God is a work that ventures into the fraught terrain where Nietzsche’s philosophy confronts the two-thousand-year-old religious heritage of the West. Didier Franck’s study, here introduced for the first time to English-speaking audiences through a careful and readable translation by Bettina Bergo and Philippe Farah, does not aim at either…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
This new edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, with a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Josefine Nauckhoff and introduced by Bernard Williams, offers a transformative encounter with one of Nietzsche’s central works, a text that the philosopher himself once described as “perhaps my most personal book.” Written at…
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Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
In approaching the Revised Edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, as translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann, with an introduction and introductory notes by Arthur C. Danto, one is immediately struck by the unique historical and philosophical significance of this work and by the profound care with…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits presents a striking departure from his earlier, more romantic and metaphysical works, marking a pivotal moment in his intellectual evolution. This collection, which contains almost 1,400 aphorisms, was originally published in three installments between 1878 and 1880. It reflects Nietzsche’s shift from his previous…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day
Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day (1881), translated by J. M. Kennedy, is a seminal work in the development of Nietzsche’s philosophical journey, bridging his earlier explorations and his later, more fully developed ideas. The book, a collection of aphorisms and prose poems, represents a profound moment in Nietzsche’s intellectual maturation. Written during a period…
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Nietzsche: Daybreak – Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
In Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Nietzsche embarks on a bold critique of traditional morality that not only challenges its assumptions but also lays the groundwork for his larger philosophical project—a radical revaluation of values that would come to define his mature work. The book represents a significant turning point in Nietzsche’s intellectual…
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Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
In Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period, Paul Franco offers a comprehensive and insightful presentation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works from his so-called middle period, a phase often overlooked or misunderstood in the broader sweep of Nietzschean scholarship. This middle period consists of three central works—Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay…
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Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit
Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit by Paolo D’Iorio, as translated by Sylvia Gorelick, offers an in-depth and revealing portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche during a pivotal moment in his life and philosophy. In this compelling narrative, D’Iorio goes into the deep transformation Nietzsche experienced while spending time in southern…
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Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy
In Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy, Rebecca Bamford brings together an eclectic and sophisticated array of essays that illuminate the largely under-explored yet foundational concept of the “free spirit” in Nietzsche’s philosophy. This concept, which emerges in Nietzsche’s middle period, is particularly prominent in works like Human, All Too Human, Dawn (or Daybreak), and The Gay…
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Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading
Matthew Meyer’s Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading offers a key interpretation of Nietzsche’s middle period works, which span from 1878 to 1882 and include Human, All Too Human, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, The Wanderer and His Shadow, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. These texts, often dismissed as mere collections of aphorisms, are, according…
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Slavoj Žižek’s address to the Oxford Union
In his address at the Oxford Union, Slavoj Žižek explores the evolution of modern political dynamics, focusing on what he terms “soft fascism” and the alarming rise of shamelessness in public life. Žižek describes soft fascism as a political phenomenon where capitalist development is maintained by a strong state apparatus, legitimized by traditional or ideological…
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Freud and War
Marlene Belilos’ Freud and War offers a compelling account of the psychoanalytic underpinnings of human conflict, focusing on Sigmund Freud’s insights into the nature of war, the human psyche, and the dynamics of aggression. Rooted in Freud’s exchange with Albert Einstein during the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in the early 1930s, the book delves…
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Sigmund Freud Lecture by Slavoj Žižek: Theology, Negativity, and the Death-Drive
In his Sigmund Freud Lecture delivered in Vienna, Slavoj Žižek engages with themes at the intersection of psychoanalysis, theology, and the death drive. Žižek deconstructs common misconceptions about psychoanalysis, critiques contemporary ideologies, and explores existential voids inherent in the human condition. Žižek begins by challenging the notion that psychoanalysis seeks coherent self-knowledge or alleviation of…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A Propaedeutic
Thomas Sören Hoffmann’s Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A Propaedeutic is a monumental intellectual biography that goes deeply into the dense philosophy of Hegel, the master philosopher of German idealism and the last great system builder of European philosophy. Hoffmann offers a comprehensive exploration of Hegel’s thought, working through all the major themes that define his…
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Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic
Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic by Julie E. Maybee is a groundbreaking work that breathes new life into G.W.F. Hegel’s notoriously dense and challenging Encyclopaedia Logic. Maybee created an ambitious project to demystify Hegel’s philosophical system by employing diagrams and illustrations, offering a novel approach that caters to both newcomers and…
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Hegel’s Shorter Logic: An Introduction and Commentary
Hegel’s Shorter Logic: An Introduction and Commentary by John Grier Hibben and Eric v.d. Luft is a monumental contribution to Hegelian scholarship, offering an in-depth exploration of Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic. Since its original publication in 1902, Hibben’s work has been celebrated for its clarity and insightful interpretation of Hegel’s philosophical system. This revised edition, significantly…
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Hegel: Political Writings
Hegel: Political Writings, edited by Lawrence Dickey and H. B. Nisbet, is an indispensable volume that offers a presentation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s political philosophy beyond his renowned Philosophy of Right. This collection gathers Hegel’s most significant political writings, providing readers with unparalleled access to both the practical and metaphysical dimensions of his thought.…
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Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings
Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings is an indispensable compendium that encapsulates the depth and breadth of one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. This anthology brings together Heidegger’s seminal works, offering readers an immersive journey into his groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental questions of existence, Being, and the human condition. The collection not…
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Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy
Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy by Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, translated by Susan Spitzer with an introduction by Kenneth Reinhard, is an analysis of one of the twentieth century’s most influential yet controversial philosophers, Martin Heidegger. This extensive work delves deep into the paradoxical existence of Heidegger—an ordinary Nazi and a dedicated member…
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