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  • American Sophistication

    How the Casual Became Cool

    by Ross Posnock ...
    The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as “American sophistication”—or is it a contradiction in terms? Those questions have been up for grabs since America’s founding. The idea of sophistication has always left Americans uneasy. Devoted to a self-image of sincerity and plain-dealing, Americans are suspicious of ... Read more

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  • Philip Roth's Rude Truth

    The Art of Immaturity

    by Ross Posnock ...
    Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Renunciation

    Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists

    by Ross Posnock ...
    Renunciation as a creative force in the careers of writers, philosophers, and artists is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of artists and intellectuals to society in productive and unpredictable ways.In a work of remarkable synthesis that ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Renunciation

    Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists

    by Ross Posnock ...
    Renunciation as a creative force in the careers of writers, philosophers, and artists is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of artists and intellectuals to society in productive and unpredictable ways.In a work of remarkable synthesis that ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison

    Edited by Ross Posnock ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ralph Ellison's classic 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides an introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features essays by leading scholars, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays reveal alternative ... Read more

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    by Ernest Becker ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the ... Read more

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  • Dialectic of Enlightenment

    by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking ... Read more

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  • Transcendence for Beginners

    Life Writing and Philosophy

    by Clare Carlisle ...
    A lyrical work of philosophy that draws from the work of Spinoza, George Eliot, biographers, memoirists, and more to examine how wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual human lives.Transcendence for Beginners is an innovative book about philosophy and life writing, exploring how each practice might complement the other and so contribute to a greater understanding of human existence. ... Read more

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  • Ride the Tiger

    A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

    by Julius Evola ...
    Translated by Joscelyn Godwin, Constance Fontana ...
    Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberationThe organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Existentialism For Beginners

    by David Cogswell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Existentialism For Beginners is an entertaining romp through the history of a philosophical movement that has had a broad and enduring influence on Western culture. From the middle of the Nineteenth Century through the late Twentieth Century existentialism informed our politics and art and still exerts its influence today. Tracing the movement's beginnings with close-up views of seminal figures ... Read more

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  • Carl Gustav Jung

    A Biography

    by Frank McLynn ...
    "An evenhanded chronicle that follows Jung from cradle to grave and attempts to explicate the theories he constantly spun out. —Walter Kendrick, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this, the first full-length biography of the great Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung is remembered not only for his valuable contribution to psychotherapy and to our understanding of the inner workings of the mind, but ... Read more

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  • The Age of Atheists

    How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

    by Peter Watson ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.**In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, ... Read more

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