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  • Wounded Nostalgia

    by Michele Dantini, Eugenio Borgna ...
    Translated by Jamie Richards, Adrian West ...
    With La nostalgia ferita [Wounded Nostalgia], Eugenio Borgna develops another term in his personal lexicon of emotion. Here he describes wounded nostalgia, with its constellation of keywords: memory, time, homesickness, childhood.But there is also nostalgia for death, for a face that, as Rilke wrote, haunts us, sometimes impossible to find, as well as nostalgia for life when we are afflicted by ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

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    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They ... Read more

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  • The Courage to Create

    by Rollo May ...
    What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement.A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, ... Read more

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  • Carl Jung

    Wounded Healer of the Soul

    by Claire Dunne ...
    The first fully illustrated biography of Carl Jung—the great 20th-century thinker famous for his pioneering exploration of dreams, consciousness, and spirituality in psychology.Carl Jung continues to be revered today as a true revolutionary who helped to shape psychology, provided a bridge between Western and Eastern spirituality, and brought into general awareness such fundamental concepts as ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Lyrical and Critical Essays

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy."Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 100 Artists' Manifestos

    From the Futurists to the Stuckists

    by Alex Danchev ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architecture, fashion, and cookery.Artists' manifestos are nothing if not revolutionary. They are ... Read more

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  • The Stanislavski System

    The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition

    by Sonia Moore, John Gielgud ...
    Practical tips, techniques, and exercises to help you become a better actorThis essential guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among acting students and teachers. This updated edition includes a revised section on the subtext of a role, along with detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for decades, including:• Emotional memory ... Read more

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  • The Essential Jean-Paul Sartre

    The Emotions and Essays in Aesthetics

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    The renowned French philosopher lays the foundation for an Existentialist approach to psychology and aesthetics in this pair of classic works.In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, Jean-Paul Sartre explores the role of emotions in the human psyche, presenting a phenomenological approach to psychology. Analyzing the universal, yet subjective, experiences of fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy, ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Novel

    by Milan Kundera ...
    “Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay.” — The New Republic"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." — Milan KunderaKundera brilliantly examines the evolution, ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Poetic Correspondence on Solitude, Love, Artistic Necessity, and the Courage to Inhabit Uncertainty

    by Rainer Maria Rilke, Orson Marrowick ...
    Translated by e-artnow ...
    Letters to a Young Poet gathers Rainer Maria Rilke's correspondence with Franz Xaver Kappus, a military cadet seeking counsel on poetry and vocation. Written between 1903 and 1908, these letters unfold less as practical instruction than as a meditative poetics of solitude, inwardness, love, patience, and artistic necessity. Their prose is lyrical yet austere, aphoristic yet intimate, placing them ... Read more

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  • Literature and the Gods

    by Roberto Calasso ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature.From the banishment of the classical divinities ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Religious Sense

    by McGill-Queen's University Press ...
    Giussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers, but as an openness to existence, a capacity to ... Read more

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