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Unpacking My Library

Walter Benjamin

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the ti... Lees meer

Where Are We Now?

Giorgio Agamben

• Paperback | Engels
• In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal interventions regard... Lees meer

Ruins

Gabriele Tinti

• Paperback | Engels
• Ruins gathers a series of writings in the form of verses, fragments, and short essays that Gabriele Tinti has dedicated to the "living sculpture of th... Lees meer

Hans Hartung in His Own Words

• Paperback | Engels
• Hans Hartung was one of the twentieth century's greatest artists. His works mark him out as an outstanding practitioner of abstract painting, but he w... Lees meer

The Country of the Blind

H G Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country beyond there--where men can see. From near Bogota, where there are a hundred thousands of... Lees meer

Resistance to Christianity

Raoul Vaneigem

• Paperback | Engels
• Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century is a revisionary account of the forms... Lees meer

I Declare a Permanent State of Happiness

Kenneth Goldsmith

• Paperback | Engels
• "My entire poetic production is founded upon Wittgenstein's later writings. Although it has sat on my shelf for decades, I never actually read the Tra... Lees meer

The Lottery in Babylon

Jorge Luis Borges

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are... Lees meer

Rameu's Nephew

Denis Diderot

• Paperback | Engels | Dialogues
• Rameau's Nephew is a fictional conversation written by Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of the French Enlightenment. Composed over many years and... Lees meer

The Glory of the Rails

Tony Judt

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "More than any other technical design or social institution, the railway stands for modernity." In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt descri... Lees meer

Glossary of Cognitive Activism

Warren Neidich

• Paperback | Engels
• We are at one of those turning points that divide history into a 'before' and an 'after.' The ongoing transition from an information economy to an eco... Lees meer

Humour as I See It

Stephen Leacock

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "The world's humour, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization." Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account o... Lees meer

Confessions

Gabriele Tinti, Andres Serrano

• Paperback | Engels
• "This book is a confessio vitae , an expression of the drama every person experiences when separated from the divine, when pushed between hope and des... Lees meer

The Vice of Reading

Edith Wharton

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these the vice of reading is foremost." A great American no... Lees meer

Only Too Much Is Enough

Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon

• Paperback | Engels
• Francis Bacon and Michael Peppiatt were close friends for over thirty years. As Peppiatt, the editor of this volume, tells us in his illuminating Intr... Lees meer

Secrets of Beauty

Jean Cocteau

• Paperback | Engels
• A towering figure in the worlds of literature, cinema, and visual art, Jean Cocteau was one of the most influential creative artists of the twentieth ... Lees meer

Story of a Communist

Antonio Negri

• Hardcover | Engels
• The philosopher Antonio Negri was one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influe... Lees meer

Do Not Resuscitate

Maurice Saatchi

• Hardcover | Engels
• Maurice Saatchi is dead. He is standing in front of the Gates of Heaven. Arrival halls worse than Heathrow Airport. Queues. Overcrowding. A tidal wave... Lees meer

Do Not Resuscitate

Maurice Saatchi

• Paperback | Engels
• Maurice Saatchi is dead. He is standing in front of the Gates of Heaven. Arrival halls worse than Heathrow Airport. Queues. Overcrowding. A tidal wave... Lees meer

Story of a Communist

Antonio Negri

• Paperback | Engels
• The philosopher Antonio Negri was one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influe... Lees meer

Story of My Death

Lauro de Bosis

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "We are going to Rome to scatter these words of liberty far and wide, words which for seven years have been forbidden like a crime. And with reason, f... Lees meer

The Invisible Collection

Stefan Zweig

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "I found it terrible, yet at the same time touching, for in all the years of the war I had not seen so perfect and pure an expression of bliss on any ... Lees meer

Essay on the Art of Crawling

Baron D'Holbach

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "Serpents and reptiles reach the heights of mountains and rocks, while the most fiery of steeds can never climb there." Baron d'Holbach's 1776 Essay o... Lees meer

Justice in Palestine

Mahatma Gandhi

• Paperback | Engels | Gems
• "A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb." In 1938 Mahatma Gandhi wrote a bracing and, at times, discomfiting essa... Lees meer