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  • War and Imagination

    Perspectives from the Hudson Review

    by Ronald Koury, Nina Bogin, Frederick Morgan, Franz Schneider, Charles Gullans, Joseph Bennett, John Finlay, Marilyn Nelson, Brooke Allen, Abraham Pais0, Louis Simpson1, Anne Stevenson2, Daniel Hoffman3, John Ridland4, Maria Terrone5, Maxine Kumin6, Benjamin Fondane7, John Balaban8, Donka Farkas9, Tennessee Williams0, Leo Tolstoy1, Richard Pevear2, Larissa Volokhonsky3, Wendell Berry4, Julián Ríos5, Nick Caistor6, Asako Serizawa7, Luke Mogelson8, Lara Prescott9, Cary Holladay0 ...
    Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in ... Read more

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  • Existential Monday

    Philosophical Essays

    by Benjamin Fondane ...
    Translated by Bruce Baugh ...
    Benjamin Fondane—who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz—was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, “a torture and a spur.” Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Cinepoems and Others

    by Benjamin Fondane ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Essays in Aesthetics

    by Jean-Paul Sartre, Susan Braudy ...
    Translated by Wade Baskin ...
    R enowned French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre references artists such as Tintoretto, Calder, Lapoujade, Titian, Raphael, and Michaelangelo in discussing how great art of the past relates to the challenges of his eraEssays in Aesthetics is a provocative collection that considers the nature of art and its meaning. Sartre considers the artist's "function," and the relation of art and the artist to ... Read more

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  • Understand Existentialism: Teach Yourself

    by Mel Thompson, Nigel Rodgers ...
    Understand Existentialism breaks down a complex mode of thought into more manageable sections, enabling you to get to grips with the key concepts within the movement. Chart the origins and development of existentialism in a variety of disciplines and learn about significant thinkers from Sartre and De Beauvoir to Beckett and Camus. Whether you are a newcomer or more experienced student, this book ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of René Char

    by Rene Char ...
    Translated by Mary Ann Caws ...
    “This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well—full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal couplings, they come close to the piercing beauty of the originals.” —Pat Monaghan, BooklistThe Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet’s wide stylistic and ... Read more

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  • Introducing Continental Philosophy

    A Graphic Guide

    by Christopher Kul-Want ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'?Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with theories that challenged the very formation of individual and social consciousness.Covering the ... Read more

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  • What Would Nietzsche Do?

    How the greatest philosophers would solve your everyday problems

    by Marcus Weeks ...
    What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost your phone? Given the chance, would Foucault leave the toilet seat up?With sections on Relationships, Self and Identity, How to Live, Art and ... Read more

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  • Mute Objects of Expression

    by Francis Ponge ...
    Translated by Lee Fahnestock ...
    Francis Ponge boldly proclaims his poetic goal in Mute Objects of Expression: "To accept the challenge that objects offer to language." These objects—less chosen than received spontaneously—are perceived with inimitable Pongean humor and rendered into glimmering still lifes. He gives voice to the often unnoticed aspects of natural objects and beings. Shunning familiar poetic modes, Ponge forges ... Read more

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  • God’S Illusion Machine

    The Vedic Alternative to Richard Dawkins’S God Delusion

    by Mäyeçvara däsa ...
    In the tidal wave of intellectual argument that followed the 2006 release of Richard Dawkinss God Delusion book, a fierce debate has raged between atheism and religion over the existence of God, leaving the worlds scientists and laymen largely undecided in their opinion. Gods Illusion Machine presents a fascinating alternative to a debate that has largely been argued within the framework of ... Read more

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  • Fate and Freedom

    Essays: Volume 1

    by Andrew Mason ...
    What does fate mean, and how does it work? When we feel we are in the grip of a fate, how can we best disarm that grip and free ourselves from it? And what is freedom? How might we understand better what freedom really entails so as not to lose it quite so easily?In a series of exploratory essays, Fate and Freedom challenges a number of prevailing notions about fate, starting with the idea of a ... Read more

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  • French Love Poems

    by New Directions ...
    Inspired by the great tradition of French love poetry, New Directions presents a beautiful, small gift edition, dedicated to what makes the world go round.Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labé and Maurice Scève to ... Read more

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