Georges Bataille. An Intellectual Biography, Paperback - Michel Surya

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a philosopher, writer and literary critic who had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baud...

Reducere. The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biogr...

Reducere. No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...

An accelerated introduction into the life and work of the first female Nobel Laureate for Economics, Elinor Ostrom.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any unde...

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DescriptionWhen Mustafa Kemal Atat rk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic w...

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Freud: An Intellectual Biography - Joel Whitebook

Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography - Maria Rosa Antognazza

'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its compl...

Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist ...

Reducere. Guilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the ...

DescriptionIn this ambitious work David T. Byrne analyzes the ideas that informed Ronald Reagan's political philosophy and policies. Rather than ap...

In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman's approach ...

Suveranitatea - Georges Bataille

Reducere. Louis XXX presents two little known hybrid texts by French novelist and philosopher Georges Bataille: The Little One and The Tomb of Louis XXX. Wri...

At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Krist...

Reducere. Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis ...

Reducere. Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling pers...

Reducere. Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. It o...

A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgi...

Reducere. Georges Bataille wrote On Nietzsche in the final months of the Nazi occupation of France in order to cleanse the German philosopher of the stain of...

The first English-language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, the "spiritual father" of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this book contextuali...

Reducere. Hailed by Martin Heidegger as ``one of France's best minds, `` Georges Bataille has become increasingly recognized and respected in the realm of ac...

Presents depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is sho...

This engaging study explores Georges Bataille's central ideas: the sacred, community and eroticism. The continuing relevance of Bataille's project,...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lu...

DescriptionAt the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his fath...

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw s...

Reducere. A vibrant picture book biography of Surya Bonaly, the figure skating champion who backflipped her way into history As a young girl in France, Surya...

Reducere. An engrossing account of the remarkable twentieth-century philosopher-sociologist who has been called the Catholic Nietzsche. John Raphael Staude e...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

Reducere. When one encounters a metaphor in the Humanities, the interpretation of that metaphor is dominated by either cognitive linguistics or post-Kantian ...

Reducere. An in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is...

Reducere. Join Carlos in this epic adventure of hope, self-love, friendship and transformation. Carlos is a lonely caterpillar who lives in a beautiful field...

Reducere. An incredibly useful guide for aspiring authors and playwrights. This volume categorizes every dramatic situation which could occur in a story and ...

Reducere. This book presents the vision of oneness founded on the profound and universal teachings of Indian Philosophy (Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita) with i...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tete-Michel KpomassieTranslator: Ros SchwartzNumber of pages: 336Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublicat...

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Publisher: Spokesman BooksAuthor(s): Peter StoneNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. DescriptionMichel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the e...

Reducere. The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political t...

Reducere. A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

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