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Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by: Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, F

Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by: Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, F

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Analyzes the expression and repression of desire in Western culture and tells how to avoid fascism in one's life. Clean copy.

Record # 381840

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Classical Social Theoryby: Craib, Ian

Classical Social Theory
by: Craib, Ian

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages. Softcover. In very good condition, clean and bright inside. Wrapper has a slight yellowing at top edge, barely visable. Binding tight.

Record # 30962

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Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture by: Thompson, E. P.

Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
by: Thompson, E. P.

Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 547 pages, b&w illustrations. The product of years of research and debate, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerged in England - a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. In a text marked by both empathy and erudition, Thompson investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. Name on front fly leaf, 20 pages with light pencil notations.

Record # 386340

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Does Civilization Need Religion?: A Study in the Social Resources and Limitations of Religion in Modern Lifeby: Reinhold Niebuhr

Does Civilization Need Religion?: A Study in the Social Resources and Limitations of Religion in Modern Life
by: Reinhold Niebuhr

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt letterng on spine and front cover, 242 pages. Does Civilization Need Religion? sets out from the fact that religion's inability to make its ethical and social resources available for the solution of the moral problems of modern civilization is one, and the neglected one, of the two chief causes responsible for its debilitated condition. It is convinced that if Christian idealists are to make religion socially effective they will be forced to detach themselves from the dominant secular desires of the nations as well as from the greed of economic groups. It aims to show that though neither the orthodox nor the modern wing of the Christian Church seems capable of initiating a genuine revival which will evolve a morality capable of challenging and maintaining itself against the dominant desires of modern civilization's needs, there are resources in the Christian religion which make it the inevitable basis of any spiritual regeneration of Western civilization. Does Civilization Need Religion? maintains that the task of redeeming Western society rests in a peculiar sense upon Christianity, which has reduced the eternal conflict between self-assertion and self-denial to the paradox of self-assertion through self-denial and made the Cross the symbol of life's highest achievement. It is persuaded that the idea of a potent but yet suffering divine ideal which is defeated by the world but gains its victory in the defeat must continue to remain basic in any morally creative worldview. Names on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 386167

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Elements of Refusalby: Zerzan, John

Elements of Refusal
by: Zerzan, John

Softcover. Seattle, Left Bank Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages, clean, unmarked. A comprehensive collection of the author's provocative writings which originally appeared in marginal and underground publications.

Record # 358576

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History of Autobiography in Antiquity (Two Volumes)by: Misch, Georg, Dr. Karl Mannheim (Editor)

History of Autobiography in Antiquity (Two Volumes)
by: Misch, Georg, Dr. Karl Mannheim (Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1st Editions, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. Two Volumes: Vol. 1: 352 pages. Vol. 2: 706 pages plus publisher ads. Previous owner's name on front flyleafs. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, fading to boards, especially to spines. Binding tight. Spines straight. Pages/edges have light tanning, otherwise clean. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99173

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History Without a Subject: The Postmodern Conditionby: Ashley, David

History Without a Subject: The Postmodern Condition
by: Ashley, David

Softcover. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Softcover. Clean inside, tight binding, wrapper shows a touch of age/shelf wear. In very good condition.

Record # 30977

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Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writingsby: Baudrillard, Jean; Poster, Mark (Edited with an Introduction by)

Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
by: Baudrillard, Jean; Poster, Mark (Edited with an Introduction by)

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages. Jean Baudrillard is one of the most topical and controversial theorists in France today. He has played a major role in the development of critical social theory and cultural sociology, and his writings are currently at the center of the 'post-modernism' debate. This volume makes his most important work widely available in English for the first time. It includes selections from the entire range of his writings, from his early work on advertising and commodity culture to his most recent writings on simulation and desire. Throughout the selections Baudrillard stresses the ways in which our lives are embedded in a world if images which have no clear reference and which are reproduced by the new mechanisms of cultural production in contemporary societies. Clean copy.

Record # 383949

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Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by: Paul Ricoeur

Lectures on Ideology and Utopia
by: Paul Ricoeur

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages. The only available collection of Ricoeur's lectures on ideology and utopia, this seminal collection discusses the work of Althusser, Marx, Habermas, Geertz, Mannheim, and Weber. Clean copy.

Record # 397580

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Slavery and Freedomby: Berdyaev Nicolas/ French RM. (Trans)/Roger Shattuck

Slavery and Freedom
by: Berdyaev Nicolas/ French RM. (Trans)/Roger Shattuck

Hardcover. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt title on spine, 268 pages. In an edgeworn dust jacket with a crease lengthwise. Copy of literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck with his pencil signature and "Mindoro, Philippines 1945" (presumed where he served in WW2) on the front fly leaf. Some pencil markings and notations in text.

Record # 372391

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Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolutionby: Del Gandio, Jason, Ak Thompson

Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution
by: Del Gandio, Jason, Ak Thompson

Hardcover. Albany, NY, SUNY, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover. Decorated covers, high gloss finish. In excellent condition, super clean and bright inside. Small spot of soil on foreedge. Covers are very good.

Record # 30971

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Story of Black, Theby: Harvey, John

Story of Black, The
by: Harvey, John

Hardcover. London, Reaktion Books, 2013, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233141

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The Concept of the Social: Scepticism, Idleness and Utopiaby: Malcolm Bull

The Concept of the Social: Scepticism, Idleness and Utopia
by: Malcolm Bull

Hardcover. NY, Verso, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages. In essays that range from ancient Greece to the end of the Anthropocene, Bull addresses questions central to contemporary political theory in novel readings of texts by Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, and Arendt, and shows how classic philosophical problems have a bearing on issues like political protest and climate change. The result is an entirely original account of political agency for the twenty-first century in which uncertainty and idleness are limned with utopian promise. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 380332

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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzenby: Kelly, Aileen M.

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
by: Kelly, Aileen M.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 592 pages. Alexander Herzen-philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century-was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are so numerous. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called "the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought." In an era dominated by ideologies of human progress, Herzen resisted them because they conflicted with his sense of reality, a sense honed by his unusually comprehensive understanding of history, philosophy, and the natural sciences. Following his unconventional decision to study science at university, he came to recognize the implications of early evolutionary theory, not just for the natural world but for human history. In this respect, he was a Darwinian even before Darwin. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387400

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The Roots of Evilby: Kekes, John

The Roots of Evil
by: Kekes, John

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 2nd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 261 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it." The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; Robespierre's Terror of 1793?94; Franz Stangl, who commanded a Nazi death camp in 1943?44; the 1969 murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family"; the "dirty war" conducted by the Argentinean military dictatorship of the late 1970s; and the activities of a psychopath named John Allen, who recorded reminiscences in 1975. John Kekes includes these examples not out of sensationalism, but rather to underline the need to hold vividly in our minds just what evil is. The second part shows why, in Kekes's view, explanations of evil inspired by Christianity and the Enlightenment fail to account for these cases and then provides an original explanation of evil in general and of these instances of it in particular.

Record # 385519

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by: Manuel, Frank E. and Fritzie P. Manuel

Utopian Thought in the Western World
by: Manuel, Frank E. and Fritzie P. Manuel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 896 pages. This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, with a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers and dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order and described it persuasively, leaving a mark on their own and later times. The roster of utopians includes men of all stripes in different countries and eras--figures as disparate as More and Fourier, the Marquis de Sade and Edward Bellamy, Rousseau and Marx. Fascinating character studies of the major figures are among the delights of the book. 1980 National Book Award winner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386761

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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the Westby: Saul, John Ralston

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
by: Saul, John Ralston

Softcover. Canada, Penguin Books, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 640 pages. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we've never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our "rational elites" have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts--"Voltaire's bastards"--whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertain-ment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins--whose "pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor" (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)--Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural estab-lishments of the West. Clean copy.

Record # 386022

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World as Will and Representation, The Volume 1by: Schopenhauer, Arthur

World as Will and Representation, The Volume 1
by: Schopenhauer, Arthur

Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 633 pages. Softcover. Previous owner's name and address on front flyleaf. Some underlining/notes inside. Wrapper excellent, glossy. Pages bright. Binding good. "First published in 1818, The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy, ranging through epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics and philosophy of art, to ethics, the meaning of life and the philosophy of religion, in an attempt to account for the world in all its significant aspects."

Record # 99053

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