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The Chinese Pleasure Book
This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of...
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Into the White
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for...
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Bob Dylan’s Poetics
Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern...
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Perfection’s Therapy
Albrecht Dürer’s master engraving, Melencolia I, has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about melancholia and an allegory of...
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Forensic Architecture
In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations...
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1668: The Year of the Animal in France
Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La...
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Objectivity
The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic...
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Theory of Religion
Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an...
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Remnants of Auschwitz
In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and...
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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750
A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.
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War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
In the aftermath of the methodical destruction of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, the power and efficiency of new...
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The Accursed Share Volume I
In this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the...
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