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The Golden Hour: A Novel

by Beatriz Williams

Published: 2019-07-09

Kindle Edition: 480 pages

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Beatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives, is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young “society reporter” is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Wind...

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Adorno on Nature

by Deborah Cook

Published: 2014-08-23

Paperback: 224 pages

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Decades before the environmental movement emerged in the 1960s, Adorno condemned our destructive and self-destructive relationship to the natural world, warning of the catastrophe that may result if we continue to treat nature as an object that exists exclusively for our own benefit. "Adorno on Nature"...

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Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation

by A. Wendling

Published: 2009-03-26

Paperback: 252 pages

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The author draws on lesser known archival materials, including Marx's notebooks on women and patriarchy and technology to offer a new interpretation of Marx's concept of alienation as this concept develops in his later works.

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

by Frances A. Yates

Published: 1991-02-26

Paperback: 498 pages

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Placing Bruno—both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake—in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay—and conflict—with magic and occult practices. "Among those who have explored the inte...

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The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci

by Perry Anderson

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 192 pages

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A major essay on the thought of the great Italian MarxistPerry Anderson’s essay “The Antimonies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist. Since then it has ...

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Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition

by Glenn Alexander Magee

Published: 2008-06-19

Paperback: 304 pages

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Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno, and Paracelsus, and fascination with occult and paranormal...

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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)

by Karl Marx

Published: 1993-11-07

Paperback: 912 pages

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Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and...

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Representing Capital: A Reading Of Volume One

by Fredric Jameson

Published: 2014-01-07

Paperback: 176 pages

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Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first book-length engagement with Marx’s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx’s thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictio...

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Gingerbread: A Novel

by Helen Oyeyemi

Published: 2019-03-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Y...

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Feast Your Eyes: A Novel

by Myla Goldberg

Published: 2019-04-16

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season—a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation.Feast...