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Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britainby Stefan ColliniISBN 0199291055 (0-19-929105-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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American Power and the New Mandarinsby Noam ChomskyISBN 156584775X (1-56584-775-X)
Softcover, New Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Power and the New Mandarins'Book summary:Back in print, the seminal work by "arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times).
American Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky's first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectualsthe "new mandarins"who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people.
As America's foreign entanglements deepen by the month, Chomsky's lucid analysis is a sobering reminder of the perils of imperial diplomacy. [via]
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Lifeby Richard HofstadterISBN 0394703170 (0-394-70317-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalismby Cornel WestISBN 156751006X (1-56751-006-X)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Societyby Heather MacDonaldISBN 1566633966 (1-56663-396-6)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Confessionsby Augustine, John E. Rotelle, Maria BouldingISBN 1565481542 (1-56548-154-2)
Softcover, New City
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:Maria Bouldings version is of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market. She has perfected an elegant and flowing style.
Rowan Williams
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all time number one Christian classic. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer. Augustine was probably forty-three when he began this endeavor. He had been a baptized Catholic for ten years, a priest for six, and a bishop for only two. His pre-baptismal life raised questions in the community. Was his conversion genuine? The first hearers were captivated, as many millions have been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions. This new translation masterfully captures his experience.
So old and yet so new! This contemporary translation of Augustine's Confessions was like meeting an old friend and touching perennial truth, despite the passing years. Augustine was surely larger than life--and this translation matches it.
Richard Rohr, o.f.m. [via]
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- The Confessions: ISBN 156548083X (1-56548-083-X)
Hardcover, New City Pr - Confessions: ISBN 1565634519 (1-56563-451-9)
Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub - Confessions: ISBN 0916441075 (0-916441-07-5)
Hardcover, Barbour Publishing, Incorporated - The Confessions: ISBN 2070114120 (2-07-011412-0)
Hardcover, Gallimard - Confessions: ISBN 1565481542 (1-56548-154-2)
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby AugustineISBN 1421824515 (1-4218-2451-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man raise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest [via]
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The Confessions Of Saint Augustineby E. B. Pusey, AugustineISBN 140680603X (1-4068-0603-X)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee? how long shalt thou not be dried up? how long roll the sons of Eve into that huge and hideous ocean, which even they scarcely overpass who climb the cross? Did not I read in thee of Jove the thunderer and the adulterer? both, doubtless, he could not be; but so the feigned thunder might countenance and pander to real adultery. [via]
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: A Modern English Versionby Hal McElwaine Helms, AugustineISBN 0941478556 (0-941478-55-6)
Softcover, Paraclete Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: A Modern English Version'Book summary:The Confessions of St. Augustine, a passionate, deeply honest autobiographical account of Augustine's journey toward faith, has been a source of spiritual guidance and intellectual nourishment for millions of people throught the centuries. While Augustine is regarded as one of Christianity's greatest theologians, the enduring and universal appeal of the Confessions is undoubtedly in Augustine's humanity--in his fervent examinations of his own struggles, conflicts, and temptations, and in his intensely personal quest for God. This modern edition of the Confessions will offer a profound source of spiritual enlightenment to today's reader.[via]More editions of The Confessions of St. Augustine: A Modern English Version:
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby Augustine, E. B. PuseyISBN 160206010X (1-60206-010-X)
Hardcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version'Book summary:Aurelius Augustinus, aka SAINT AUGUSTINE (354-430) was bishop of Hippo, today called Bona, in Algeria. Before his conversion to Christianity, however, he lead a wild and licentious youth in Carthage and later studied philosophy for years in Milan. His Confessions, in which he begs forgiveness from God for his sins and sets himself entirely to devotion to God, is not only a foundational work of Western theology, it is also one of the earliest autobiographies, offering keen insight into the workings of the medieval mind. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO CLASSICS: Saint Augustine's "The City of God" Translator and British clergyman EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY (1800-1882) was one of the most influential figures in the Anglican church in the 19th century, formulated theology and doctrine that radically altered the practice of Christianity in England. [via]
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The Confessions: Saint Augustineby Maria Boulding, Augustine, Saint, of HippoISBN 1565480848 (1-56548-084-8)
Softcover, New City Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions: Saint Augustine'Book summary:'Maria Boulding's version is of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market. She has perfected an elegant and flowing style.'
Rowan Williams
Archbishop of CanterburyThe Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all time number one Christian classic. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer. Augustine was probably forty-three when he began this endeavor. He had been a baptized Catholic for ten years, a priest for six, and a bishop for only two. His pre-baptismal life raised questions in the community. Was his conversion genuine? The first hearers were captivated, as many millions have been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions. This new translation masterfully captures his experience.
'So old and yet so new! This contemporary translation of Augustine's Confessions was like meeting an old friend and touching perennial truth, despite the passing years. Augustine was surely larger than life--and this translation matches it.'
Richard Rohr, o.f.m. [via]
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The Crisis Of The Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis Of The Failure Of Black Leadershipby Harold Cruse, Stanley CrouchISBN 1590171357 (1-59017-135-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Dream of Scipioby Iain PearsISBN 1573229865 (1-57322-986-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream of Scipio'Book summary:"May well be the best historical mystery ever written," proclaimed The Sunday Boston Globe about Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost, while Booklist called its publication "a major literary event." Iain Pears's international bestseller was greeted with front-page reviews ("A crafty, utterly mesmerizing intellectual thriller"-The Washington Post Book World), named a New York Times Notable Book, and hailed as a Book to Remember by the New York Public Library. Now he returns with a greatly anticipated novel that is so brilliantly constructed, the author himself describes it as "a complexity."
The centuries are the fifth (the final days of the Roman Empire); the fourteenth (the years of the Black Death); and the twentieth (World War II). The setting for each is the same-Provence-and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, but what joins them thematically is an ancient text-"The Dream of Scipio"-a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? "Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless," warns one of Pears's characters. [via] -
El Sueno De Escipion / Escipion's Dreamby Iain PearsISBN 8432296562 (84-322-9656-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmittby Carl Schmitt, Gopal BalakrishnanISBN 1859847609 (1-85984-760-9)
Hardcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt'Book summary:The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments. The Enemy is a comprehensive intertextual reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works - his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 - 1950 - presented in an arresting narrative form. This form reveals the complex ways in which his ideas took shape in the intertwining time lines of civil and world wars and retraces the path of his interventions on the constantly shifting battlefield of the inter-war era. The lines of thought which emerge out of this meticulous study on democracy, constitutional law and international law will be startling to those who know nothing about Schmitt, as well as to those who have had to rely on the existing secondary literature to form an opinion of him. For the first time, the stature and topicality of this disturbing figure is incontrovertibly demonstrated. [via]
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The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmittby Gopal BalakrishnanISBN 185984359X (1-85984-359-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusserby M. PosterISBN 0691019940 (0-691-01994-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857by Jean Paul Sartre, Carol CosmanISBN 0226735109 (0-226-73510-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857'Book summary:Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can we know about a man?" this monumental work continues to perplex its fascinated critics and admirers, who have argued about its precise nature. However, as reviews of the first volume in this translation agreed, whatever The Family Idiot may be called"a dialectic" (Fredric Jameson, New York Times Book Review); "biography, philosophy, or politics? Surely . . . all of these together" (Renee Winegarten, Commentary); "a new form of fiction?" (Victor Brombert, Times Literary Supplement); or simply, "mad, of course" (Julian Barnes, London Review of Books)its prominent place in intellectual history is indisputable.[via]
Volume 3 consists of "School Years" and "Preneurosis," which are the second and third books of part 2 of the original French work. In vivid detail, Sartre renders Flaubert's secondary-school experiences and relationships: his part in a student rebellion against the faculty, his teenage infatuation with Romantic literature, his friendships and rivalries with his classmates, and the ironies inherent in the schoolboys' bourgeois existence. Sartre then discusses Flaubert's years at law school, where he studied at his father's insistence. This volume also contains Sartre's most sustained analysis of Madame Bovary. Sartre's approach to his complex subject, whether jaunty or judicious, psychoanalytical or political, is captured in all of its rich variety in Carol Cosman's translation.More editions of The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857:
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Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857: ISBN 0226735184 (0-226-73518-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857: ISBN 0226735192 (0-226-73519-2)
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Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857by Jean-Paul Sartre, Carol CosmanISBN 0226735095 (0-226-73509-5)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Hard America, Soft America: Competition Vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Futureby Michael BaroneISBN 1400053242 (1-4000-5324-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Herzogby Saul Bellow, Rafael Vazquez ZamoraISBN 849793332X (84-9793-332-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herzog'Book summary:Aunque su vida se desintegra paulatinamente ante sus ojos -ha fracasado como profesor y como padre, amén de ser abandonado por su mujer en favor de su mejor amigo-, Herzog se ve a sí mismo como un sobreviviente, tanto frente a sus desastres domésticos como al pasar de los años. Ocupa su tiempo escribiendo cartas que nunca serán enviadas, a amigos y enemigos, a colegas y a gente famosa, revelando con ironía sus percepciones del mundo que lo rodea, así como los secretos más profundos de su alma.
Saludado como uno de los libros más revelantes de la literatura anglosajona del siglo XX, Herzog catapultó a su autor a pedestales reservados, hasta ese momento, a autores como William Faulkner, Mark Twain o Ernest Hemingway, y le abrió las puertas para obtener el premio Nobel de Literatura. [via]More editions of Herzog:
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 1406728713 (1-4067-2871-3)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Howards Endby Mary Gordon, E. M. ForsterISBN 1593080220 (1-59308-022-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Illustrated Souls Of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, Eugene F. Provenzo, Manning MarableISBN 159451030X (1-59451-030-X)
Hardcover, Paradigm Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Souls Of Black Folk'Book summary:The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line . . . - W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903. This prophetic statement made by W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago is from The Souls of Black Folk. One hundred years later, Souls remains the most important treatment of African-American life and culture published in the Twentieth century. Richly illustrated, this special edition of Du Bois's seminal work includes historical woodcuts and engravings, photos, and documents. Most of the photos, engravings, and documents are from the 19th and early 20th century and depict American slavery and its legacy, African-American life, and the prominent figures and events associated with the book's content. Assembled by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., this illustrated edition of The Souls of Black Folk also offers extensive annotations, commentary, and related materials from government, the media, advertising, and popular culture. Documents include: the Act Establishing the Freedman's Bureau; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech; W. E. B. Du Bois's essay The Talented Tenth; Ida B. Wells-Barnett's The Lynch Law in Georgia; W. E. B. Du Bois's report The Negro in the Black Belt; Alexander Crummell's sermon Common Sense and Schooling; W. E. B. Du Bois's story The Black Man Brings His Gifts; Thomas W. Higginson's Negro Spirituals, and more. Annotated, Illustrated, Documentary Editions are a new series of books created by Eugene Provenzo and Paradigm Publishers, offering classic works in Literature, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities with extensive commentary, illustrations, and related documentary sources. [via]
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The Intellectualby Steve FullerISBN 1840467215 (1-84046-721-5)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Intellectualsby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060916575 (0-06-091657-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intellectuals'Book summary:Conservative historian Paul Johnson wears his ideology proudly on his sleeve in this often ruthless dissection of the thinkers and artists who (in his view) have shaped modern Western culture, having replaced some 200 years ago "the old clerisy as the guides and mentors of mankind." Taking on the likes of Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Lillian Hellman, and Noam Chomsky in turn, Johnson examines one idol after another and finds them all to have feet of clay. In his account, for instance, Ernest Hemingway emerges as an artistic hero who labored endlessly to forge a literary style unmistakably his own, but also as a deeply flawed man whose concern for the perfect phrase did not carry over to a concern for the women who loved him. Gossipy and sharply opinionated, Johnson's essay in cultural history spares no one.
Does it really matter that Henrik Ibsen was vain and arrogant, that Jean-Paul Sartre was incontinent? In Johnson's view, it does: these all-too-human foibles disqualify them, and other thinkers, from presuming to criticize the shortcomings of society. "Beware intellectuals," he concludes (though, given the subjects of his book, it seems he means intellectuals only of the left). "Not only should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice." Whether one agrees or not, Johnson's profiles are frequently amusing and illuminating, as when he suggests that the only proletarian Karl Marx ever knew in person was the poor maid who worked for him for decades and was never paid, except in room and board, for her labors. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939by John CareyISBN 0897335074 (0-89733-507-4)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Jean-Paul Sartre: A Lifeby Annie Cohen-Solal, Norman MacAfee, Anna CancogniISBN 1565849744 (1-56584-974-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academeby Russell JacobyISBN 0465036252 (0-465-03625-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Les Motsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 2070366073 (2-07-036607-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Letters to Sartreby Quintin Hoare, Simone De Beauvoir, Sylvie Le Bon De BeauvoirISBN 1559701536 (1-55970-153-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Letters to Sartre: Translated And Edited by Quintin Hoareby Simone De Beauvoir, Quintin HoareISBN 1559702125 (1-55970-212-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to Sartre: Translated And Edited by Quintin Hoare'Book summary:Recently published for the first time in France, letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to one of the world's most acclaimed philosophers shed light on their relationship and her obsessive need to communicate with him. [via]
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Literature and Existentialismby Jean-Paul SartreISBN 0806501057 (0-8065-0105-7)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media : A Primer in Intellectual Self-Defenceby Mark AchbarISBN 1551640023 (1-55164-002-3)
Softcover, Black Rose Books
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A complete transcript of the film is complemented by key excerpts from the writings, interviews and correspondence. Also included are exchanges between Chomsky and his critics, historical and biographical material, filmmakers' notes, a resource guide, more than 270 stills from the film and 18 "Philosopher All-Stars" Trading Cards!
Mark Achbar has applied a wide range of creative abilities and technical skills to over 50 films, videos, and books. He has worked as editor, researcher and production coordinator.
"A juicily subversive biographical/philosophical documentary bristling and buzzing with ideas."Washington Post
"You will see the whole sweep of the most challenging critic in modern political thought."Boston Globe
"One of our real geniuses, an excellent introduction."Village Voice
"An intellectually challenging crash course in the man's cooly contentious analysis, laying out his thoughts in a package that is clever and accessible."Los Angeles Times
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The Man. Early Influences. Vietnam A Turning Point. On His Role. The Media. Thought Control in Democratic Societies. A Propaganda Model. The Gulf "War". A Case Study Cambodia & East Timor. Concision A Structural Constraint. "Sports Rap with Noam Chomsky." A Cabal of Anti-Conspiricists. Media in Media, Pennsylvania. Alternative Media. The Linguist. Basic Premises. Nim Chimsky: Chimpanzee. And the Elusive Connection to his Politics. The Social Order. On Education. Anarchism/Libertarian Socialism. Resistance & Critical Analysis. The Critics (Media-Based). William F. Buckley, Jr. "Firing Line". David Frum Journalist, Washington Post. Jeff Greenfield Producer, "Nightline". Karl E. Meyer Editorial Writer, The New York Times. Peter Worthington Editor, The Ottawa Sun. The Critics (Other Elites). Fritz Bolkestein Former Dutch Minister of Defense. Michel Foucault Philosopher. Yossi Olmert Tel Aviv University. John SilberMore editions of Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media : A Primer in Intellectual Self-Defence:
Martin Heidegger and National Socialism: Questions and Answersby Gunther Neske, Emil KetteringISBN 1557783101 (1-55778-310-1)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectualsby David LaskinISBN 0226468933 (0-226-46893-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Prosody in England and Elsewhere: A Comparative Approachby Leonardo MalcovatiISBN 192858926X (1-928589-26-X)
Softcover, Gival Press
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The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politicsby Mark LillaISBN 1590170717 (1-59017-071-7)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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Rene Guenon: A Teacher for Modern Timesby Julius EvolaISBN 1558182292 (1-55818-229-2)
Softcover, Holmes Pub Group Llc
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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lecturesby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679761276 (0-679-76127-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Representations of the Intellectual: The Reith Lecturesby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679435867 (0-679-43586-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sartre, 1905-1980by Annie Cohen-SolalISBN 2070411052 (2-07-041105-2)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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Signature Classics - Howards Endby Edward Morgan ForsterISBN 1582790701 (1-58279-070-1)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Signature Classics - Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Situations, II: Qu'Est-Ce Que LA Litteratureby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0686549937 (0-686-54993-7)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 1406511196 (1-4065-1119-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Towards a New Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reaganby Noam ChomskyISBN 1565848594 (1-56584-859-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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With the same uncompromising style that characterized his breakthrough, Vietnam-era writings, Toward a New Cold War extends Chomsky's critique of US foreign policy through the early 1970s to Ronald Reagan's first term. Expanding on themes such as the cozy relationship of intellectuals to the state, and American adventurism after World War II, Chomsky goes on to exaamine the way that US policymakers set about the task of rewriting the horrible history of involvement in Indochina and turned their attention more squarely on the Middle East and Central America. He assesses US oil strategy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, dissects the first volume of Henry Kissinger's memoirs, issues an urgent call to stem the bloodshed in then-unknown East Timor and, in the title essay, marks the increased posture of confrontation and rearmament under presidents Carter and Reagan that signaled the end of détente with the Soviet Union.
Featuring a new introduction by internationally acclaimed journalist John Pilger, this is the latest in the New Press series of Noam Chomsky's early political works. [via]
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The Treason of the Intellectualsby Julien Benda, Roger Kimball, Richard AldingtonISBN 1412806232 (1-4128-0623-2)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphereby Christopher HitchensISBN 1859843832 (1-85984-383-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Welfare State We're inby James BartholomewISBN 1842751611 (1-84275-161-1)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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What Is Literatureby Jean-Paul SatreISBN 0674950844 (0-674-95084-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?by Frank FurediISBN 0826490964 (0-8264-9096-4)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinismby Frank FurediISBN 0826488218 (0-8264-8821-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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El Existencialismo Es UN Humanismoby Jean Paul SartreISBN 9500392054 (950-03-9205-4)
Hardcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Humanismo Y Critica Democraticaby Edward W. SaidISBN 8483066718 (84-8306-671-8)
Softcover, Debate Editorial
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Intelectualesby Paul Johnson, Clotilde RezzanoISBN 9501509982 (950-15-0998-2)
Hardcover, Javier, Vergara
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El Juego De Abalorios/ the Glass Bead Gameby Hermann Hesse, Aristides GregoriISBN 9500722526 (950-07-2252-6)
Softcover, Sudamericana
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Miedo a Volar/Fear of Flyingby Erica JongISBN 8401490804 (84-01-49080-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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LA Montana Del Almaby Gao XingjianISBN 8484539598 (84-8453-959-8)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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La Montana Del Almaby Xingjian GaoISBN 8484530442 (84-8453-044-2)
Hardcover, Ediciones del Bronce
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La Nausea/nauseaby Jean Paul SartreISBN 9500392623 (950-03-9262-3)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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De L'esprit: Heidegger Et La Questionby Jacques Derrida, College international de philosophieISBN 2718603232 (2-7186-0323-2)
Hardcover, Galilee
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La Nauseeby Jean-Paul SartreISBN 207036805X (2-07-036805-X)
Softcover, Gallimard, Editions
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Sartreby Annie Cohen-SolalISBN 2070705277 (2-07-070527-7)
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Rede Vom Verlust: uber Den Niedergang Der Politischen Kultur Im Geeinten Deutschlandby Gunter GrassISBN 3882432500 (3-88243-250-0)
Hardcover, Steidl
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De Verbeelding Van De Intellectuelen: Literatuur En Maatschappij Van Dostojewski Tot Ter Braakby A. F. van OudvorstISBN 9028415734 (90-284-1573-4)
Hardcover, Wereldbibliotheek
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