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Faces

A Cultural History

by David Le Breton ...

Translated by Carmen Ruschiensky ...

The face: our most distinguishing feature, but one which remains alien to us and which hides as much as it reveals. The slightest variation in characteristics is enough to distinguish one physiognomy from another, to determine identity and to draw a line between one person and another. In the moral hierarchy of bodily geography, the face embodies the highest value. It is the privileged site of ... Read more

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The face: our most distinguishing feature, but one which remains alien to us and which hides as much as it reveals. The slightest variation in characteristics is enough to distinguish one physiognomy from another, to determine identity and to draw a line between one person and another. In the moral hierarchy of bodily geography, the face embodies the highest value. It is the privileged site of
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Sensing the World

An Anthropology of the Senses

by David Le Breton ...

Series series Sensory Studies
Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn – seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste – Le Breton has written a truly monumental work, vast in scope and deeply engaging in style. Among other pioneering moves, he gives equal attention to light and ... Read more

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Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn – seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste – Le Breton has written a truly monumental work, vast in scope and deeply engaging in style. Among other pioneering moves, he gives equal attention to light and
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Perpetual Euphoria

On the Duty to Be Happy

by Pascal Bruckner ...

Translated by Steven Rendall ...

How happiness became mandatory—and why we should reject the demand to "be happy"Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion—one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of ... Read more

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How happiness became mandatory—and why we should reject the demand to "be happy"Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion—one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of
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Power of Gentleness

Meditations on the Risk of Living

by Anne Dufourmantelle ...

Translated by Katherine Payne, Vincent Sallé ...

Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a transformative ability over things and beings, it is a power.The simplicity of gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become an ... Read more

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Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a transformative ability over things and beings, it is a power.The simplicity of gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become an
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Hatred and Forgiveness

by Julia Kristeva ...

Translated by Jeanine Herman ...

Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.Kristeva ... Read more

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Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.Kristeva
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Our Grateful Dead

Stories of Those Left Behind

by Vinciane Despret ...

Translated by Stephen Muecke ...

Series series Posthumanities
An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the livingA common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “acceptance” as the final stage in the process. But is it necessary to leave death behind, to stop dwelling on the dead, to get over the pain? Vinciane Despret thinks not. In her fascinating, elegantly ... Read more

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An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the livingA common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “acceptance” as the final stage in the process. But is it necessary to leave death behind, to stop dwelling on the dead, to get over the pain? Vinciane Despret thinks not. In her fascinating, elegantly
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A Brief Eternity

The Philosophy of Longevity

by Pascal Bruckner ...

Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...

There is one fundamental thing that has changed in our societies since 1950: life has got longer. Over the last few generations, 20 or 30 years have been added to the duration of our lives. But after the age of 50, human beings experience a kind of suspension: no longer young, not really old, they are, as it were, weightless. It is a reprieve that leaves life open like a swinging door. The ... Read more

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There is one fundamental thing that has changed in our societies since 1950: life has got longer. Over the last few generations, 20 or 30 years have been added to the duration of our lives. But after the age of 50, human beings experience a kind of suspension: no longer young, not really old, they are, as it were, weightless. It is a reprieve that leaves life open like a swinging door. The
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In Defense of Secrets

by Anne Dufourmantelle ...

"This urgent book" by the renowned French philosopher "will open new perspectives on a world marked by the rise of Wikileaks, Big Data, and social media" (Michael Moon, Emory University).In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle champions the value of what remains hidden, private, veiled, or just out of sight. For Dufourmantelle, ... Read more

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"This urgent book" by the renowned French philosopher "will open new perspectives on a world marked by the rise of Wikileaks, Big Data, and social media" (Michael Moon, Emory University).In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle champions the value of what remains hidden, private, veiled, or just out of sight. For Dufourmantelle,
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Everyone Dies Young

Time Without Age

by Marc Augé ...

Translated by Jody Gladding ...

Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least ... Read more

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"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least
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The Soul of the World

by Roger Scruton ...

A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To ... Read more

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A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To
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What Is Paleolithic Art?

Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

by Jean Clottes ...

Translated by Oliver Y. Martin, Robert D. Martin ...

The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning.What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of ... Read more

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The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning.What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of
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Beauty

A Very Short Introduction

by Roger Scruton ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

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Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and
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