en-US Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:14:33 -0700 60 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 246006004 Peinture et Méditation selon Erik Pevernagie explore une relation rare et profonde entre art contemplatif contemporain et expérience intérieure. À travers ses peintures, ses textes et ses aphorismes, Erik Pevernagie révèle comment la création artistique peut devenir une forme de méditation active — un espace de silence, d’attention et de lucidité.

Ce livre propose une immersion dans une méditation par l’art visuel, où la peinture n’est pas seulement regardée, mais vécue. Les figures anonymes, les architectures mentales et les surfaces fragmentées invitent le lecteur à ralentir, à observer, et à entrer dans une pleine conscience nourrie par la forme, la matière et l’absence.

À la croisée de la peinture philosophique existentielle et de la philosophie de la création artistique, l’ouvrage dialogue avec les grandes pensées de Sartre, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Goethe, Voltaire ou Keats, tout en restant profondément accessible. Il s’adresse autant aux amateurs d’art qu’aux lecteurs en quête de sens, aux artistes, aux méditants et à tous ceux qui considèrent l’art comme une expérience intérieure vivante.

Ni manifeste théorique ni simple catalogue, ce livre est une invitation :
apprendre à voir autrement, à habiter le présent, et à comprendre comment l’art peut devenir un chemin de présence, de liberté et de transformation intérieure.]]> 407 Erik Pevernagie Veronica 5 currently-reading 4.90
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Ces réflexions sur le silence, l'incomplétude et la vulnérabilité résonnent profondément en moi.
]]> 245813254 How can a painting become a space for meditation?
How does art help us slow down and become present?
Can art be a form of meditation?
How does visual art influence mindfulness?
How does art help self-reflection?

Painting and Meditation invites readers into the contemplative world of Erik Pevernagie, where art becomes a practice of mindfulness, presence, and inner reflection.
This book reveals how visual art can slow perception, deepen awareness, and create space for meditation. Drawing on philosophy, phenomenology, and poetic insight, it shows how painting can function as a silent language — one that reveals what words cannot say.
Ideal for readers interested in meditative art, mindfulness, contemporary painting, and philosophical aesthetics, Painting and Meditation offers a quiet refuge from visual overload and an invitation to see — and be — differently.
When encountering Erik Pevernagie, one is immediately drawn into a quiet dialogue that feels both profoundly intimate and distinctly universal.
In an era shaped by accelerated images and an insistent demand for clarity, Pevernagie offers something a space for reflection, and inwardness.
Over the years, he has offered a consistent meditation on what it means to exist within the delicate architectures of contemporary life.
We acknowledge the rarity of an artist who engages so deeply with the interior dimensions of human life. He reminds us that the visible world is only half of our experience; the rest unfolds in the spaces between gestures, in the moments of hesitation, in the fragile negotiations between self and other. In this sense, art is not only visually compelling — it is ethically and emotionally resonant.]]> 482 Erik Pevernagie Veronica 5 meditation-painting-silence 4.91
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The reflections on silence, incompleteness, and vulnerability resonate deeply.
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]]> 195459790 Are we sometimes immersed in clouds of doubt or fear alienating us from the world, and do we feel relieved by the power of our imagination and the supremacy of love and empathy?
If you enjoy reading enlightening thoughts for your daily journey about your identity and authentic self, your desires and dreams, your encounters and emotions, Erik Pevernagie shows us that Meditation can solve problems about the maze of our relationships, the imprisonment of our habits, the entanglements of truth and reality, the yin and yang of our minds, lightness and weightiness, understanding and misunderstanding.
The author acknowledges the shrieking counterpoints in our society, but through Meditation, we can give trust a chance.
***
Angel Higher : “I love his words so much! I could read this author’s words all day. They soothe and inspire me. I do admire that special gift. His words became my escape.”
Christine Light : “I’ve embraced his words with great honor. I thank him for his very outlook and sense of knowing all that the world is facing at present. I appreciate him beyond words. “
Noreena “A deep and amazing perspective!!!! I am so inspired by his words.”
International Herald Tribune : "Bridging the gaps between generations, social strata, and nationalities is a tricky business. However, Erik Pevernagie may have hit upon a workable formula to ease the alienation.”
Rainbowfish Creative Co .“He really means a lot to me! His words speak straight to my soul. It’s fantastic. He is magical, and I thank him so much for sharing his gift and putting his energy out into the world.”
Parri Ulrich " I love the way that he weaves words together. It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through these *times.
Wiena Robert "He has the gift of painting images with words and the book displays the expansiveness of his words of wisdom.”!
Betsy Sanders “A beautiful expression of life lived at full tilt. I am of his very school, riding the waves in the world we share and the world directly around me with the same sense of anticipation.
Myanna Dellinger .“I love it! So true. I print it out, so I'll remind myself every day. Very wise.
Eve Libertone .“It is really meaningful and beautiful, what a wonderful perspective to mediate on today, so appreciate”
Ginni Jett. “I reread his words many times and enjoy the flow of it and how it makes me feel.”
Irene Bryan . “What an uplifting way of seeing the world. Poetry will rule the day end as sweet melodies of life's mysteries unfold with the written word.”
Wíłd Rævęn Rœsę . “Deeply touched by his beautiful poetry and exquisite eloquence. He has enriched my life’s journey.”
Becky Suzik “We certainly have an opportunity for us humans to do some serious rethinking and reimagining!!!! So grateful for the beauty of his words and meaning.
Jennifer Viola “He is singing my song.
Julie Lontzen “With such enlightening words, I find light in the darkness “
“I like his wise words and contribution. I hold space to magnify the energy he has presented me with. (Kate Trainor)
John Cosentino "Absolutely...delighted. Glad to know such a gifted mind!”
“I feel the stillness and peace the words convey.”( Tanya Jane Williams)
Sharon Taylor Richardson " I Love how he thinks and what he says. So inspirational. “
ChangeThyme “ The reflections made a lot of sense to us. So we decided to quote it for our meeting.”
Prudy Prior "He speaks so deeply to my soul. I feel all 5 senses taking in life and nature.”
Sunny Gale “His writing is so beautiful and eloquent.”]]> 236 Erik Pevernagie Veronica 5 currently-reading 5.00
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]]> 75295369 Meditation is cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a drained logic in our mental network, giving voice to fresh concepts and new emotions.

By meditating, we stir the pool of the lame ducks in our minds and remove the slurry in the stagnant water of our thoughts.

When we take the time to meditate and allow ourselves to be taken off guard on every bend of our life, we experience all privileged moments as sparks springing from the intangible paradise of our mind's eye.

When we decide to settle down outside the groove of our daily grind, we have room to discover the world of others.

Encounters may help us discover our inner world, reveal us to ourselves and unshackle us from prejudices, but still, they can disrupt our thinking patterns when they make us too dependent or needy. However, if they give voice to our life choices and offer inner freedom, they inspire and enlighten us.

We may be fascinated by the temptations of random encounters. Still, randomness can upset us by the pertinacity of our habits, actuating warning signals or panic buttons in our minds and preventing us from opening up to others. If we want to meet others and, even so, better understand how we are wired and what makes us tick, we must cultivate our tastes and tame the flavors of our lifestyle.

If our relationship has been pinned down like a nail in the wall but does not renew itself every moment and allow us to change our mind's core or improve our world vision, we remain frozen characters remaining merely "being" and not "becoming."

Meditation allows us to free ourselves from burdensome habits, drop the harassing weightiness of our snake's skin, discover the rabbit hole of our inner world, and transform our life into a land of infinite wisdom.

I thank the thousands of readers for accompanying me on my journey of reflection, enlightening my thoughts, and illustrating them in an artistic, inspiring, or joyful way.]]> 193 Erik Pevernagie Veronica 5 to-read 5.00
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]]> 9418327
She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.]]> 283 Tina Fey Veronica 0 to-read 3.97 2011
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]]> 45735323
Aldrich University is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people's e-mails—the entire faculty, staff, students, alums—onto an easily searchable database. Rumors and affairs immediately leak, but things turn explosive when Kit Manning's handsome husband, Dr. Greg Strasser, is found murdered. Kit's sister, Willa, returns for the funeral, setting foot in a hometown she fled fifteen years ago, after a night she wishes she could forget. As an investigative reporter, Willa knows something isn't right about the night Greg was killed, and she's determined to find the truth. What she doesn't expect is that everyone has something to hide. And with a killer on the loose, Willa and Kit must figure out who killed Greg before someone else is murdered.

Told from multiple points of view, Reputation is full of twists, turns, and shocking reveals. It's a story of intrigue, sabotage, and the secrets we keep—and how far we go to keep them hidden. Number one bestseller Sara Shepard is at the top of her game in this brand-new adult novel.]]> 373 Sara Shepard 1524742902 Veronica 0 to-read 3.56 2019
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]]> 25855506 Are you a special snowflake?
Do you enjoy networking to advance your career?
Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared?

Ugh. Please go away.

This book is for the rest of us. These comics document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas, and wondering when, exactly, this adulthood thing begins. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life.

Sarah Andersen is a young Brooklyn artist. This book is totally not autobiographical. At all.]]> 110 Sarah Andersen 1449474195 Veronica 4 4.10 2016
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]]> 87640 The project that captured a nation's imagination.

The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary.

You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.

It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously.

The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Frank calls them "graphic haiku," beautiful, elegant, and small in structure but powerfully emotional.

As Frank began posting the cards on his website, PostSecret took on a life of its own, becoming much more than a simple art project. It has grown into a global phenomenon, exposing our individual aspirations, fantasies, and frailties -- our common humanity.

Every day dozens of postcards still make their way to Frank, with postmarks from around the world, touching on every aspect of human experience. This extraordinary collection brings together the most powerful, personal, and beautifully intimate secrets Frank Warren has received -- and brilliantly illuminates that human emotions can be unique and universal at the same time.]]> 278 Frank Warren 0060899190 Veronica 4 3.99 2005
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]]> 857502 Kandinsky's ideas are presented in two parts. The first part, called "About General Aesthetic," issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, "About Painting," Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories, while a new Preface by Richard Stratton discusses Kandinsky's career as a whole and the impact of the book. Making the book even more valuable are nine woodcuts by Kandinsky himself that appear at the chapter headings.
This English translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst was a significant contribution to the understanding of nonobjectivism in art. It continues to be a stimulating and necessary reading experience for every artist, art student, and art patron concerned with the direction of 20th-century painting.]]> 80 Wassily Kandinsky 0486234118 Veronica 3 3.83 1912
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]]> 28446947 Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819.

How about Autumn 2016?

Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.

Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.

Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. This first in a seasonal quartet casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history-making.

Here's where we're living. Here's time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic.

From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.

Here comes Autumn.]]> 264 Ali Smith 0241207002 Veronica 4 3.66 2016
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]]> 931984 259 Erving Goffman 0385094027 Veronica 4 4.07 1959
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]]> 136026 Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century. Published posthumously in Germany in the early 1920's, it has become a constitutive part of the modern sociological imagination. Economy and Society was the first strictly empirical comparison of social structures and normative orders in world-historical depth, containing the famous chapters on social action, religion, law, bureaucracy, charisma, the city, and the political community with its dimensions of class, status and power.

Economy and Status is Weber's only major treatise for an educated general public. It was meant to be a broad introduction, but in its own way it is the most demanding textbook yet written by a sociologist. The precision of its definitions, the complexity of its typologies and the wealth of its historical content make the work a continuos challenge at several levels of comprehension: for the advanced undergraduate who gropes for his sense of society, for the graduate student who must develop his own analytical skills, and for the scholar who must match wits with Weber.

When the long-awaited first complete English edition of Economy and Society was published in 1968, Arthur Stinchcombe wrote in the American Journal of Sociology: "My answer to the question of whether people should still start their sociological intellectual biographies with Economy and Society is yes." Reinhard Bendix noted in the American Sociological Review that the "publication of a compete English edition of Weber's most systematic work [represents] the culmination of a cultural transmission to the American setting...It will be a study-guide and compendium for years to come for all those interested in historical sociology and comparative study."

In a lengthy introduction, Guenther Roth traces the intellectual prehistory of Economy and Society, the gradual emergence of its dominant themes and the nature of its internal logic.

Mr. Roth is a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Mr. Wittich heads an economic research group at the United Nations.]]> 1469 Max Weber 0520035003 Veronica 4 4.13 1921
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]]> 60656
"[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies."

-- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World

"Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience."

-- Gloria Levitas The New Leader

"[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes."

-- The New Yorker

"Lively and controversial."

-- I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review]]> 368 Marvin Harris 067972849X Veronica 4 4.07 1977
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]]> 111374 Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli -- Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen Fisher and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. A precursor to Mead's illuminating Male & Female, Sex & Temperament lays the groundwork for her lifelong study of gender differences.]]> 352 Margaret Mead 0060934956 Veronica 4 3.79 1935
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]]> 40625 534 Eric R. Wolf 0520048989 Veronica 3 4.14 1982
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]]> 782026 310 Claude Lévi-Strauss 0226474844 Veronica 3 3.94 1962
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]]> 227157 Times Literary Supplement]]> 465 Jürgen Habermas 0807015075 Veronica 5 3.94 1981
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]]> 245896 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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]]> 931986
Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, or those ostracized for other reasons must constantly strive to adjust to their precarious social identities. Their image of themselves must daily confront and be affronted by the image which others reflect back to them.

Drawing extensively on autobiographies and case studies, sociologist Erving Goffman analyzes the stigmatized person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to “normals” He explores the variety of strategies stigmatized individuals employ to deal with the rejection of others, and the complex sorts of information about themselves they project. In Stigma the interplay of alternatives the stigmatized individual must face every day is brilliantly examined by one of America’s leading social analysts.]]> 168 Erving Goffman 0671622447 Veronica 4 3.98 1963
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]]> 202693
In this new edition, the first since 1984, world-renowned Durkheim scholar Steven Lukes revisits and revises the original translation to enhance clarity, accuracy, and fluency for the contemporary reader. Lukes also highlights Durkheim’s arguments by putting them into historical context with a timeline of important information. For students and scholars, this edition of The Division of Labor is essential reading and key to understanding the relevance of Durkheim’s ideas today.]]> 416 Émile Durkheim 0684836386 Veronica 4 3.85 1893
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]]> 212965 333 Pierre Bourdieu 0804720118 Veronica 4 4.10 1980
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]]> 199263
"If philosophical eminence be measured by the extent to which a man's writings anticipate the focal problems of a later day and contain a point of view which suggests persuasive solutions to many of them, then George Herbert Mead has justly earned the high praise bestowed upon him by Dewey and Whitehead as a 'seminal mind of the very first order.'"—Sidney Hook, The Nation]]> 440 George Herbert Mead 0226516687 Veronica 4 3.95 1934
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]]> 414773 248 C. Wright Mills 0195133730 Veronica 4 4.17 1959
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]]> 767854 504 Max Weber 0195004620 Veronica 4 4.04 1946
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]]> 43219
Updated with a new preface, this is a fundamental text for understanding the workings of hegemony and grasping the nature of contemporary social struggles and their significance for democratic theory.]]> 198 Ernesto Laclau 1859843301 Veronica 4 3.86 1985
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]]> 279246
Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the state of political emergency, Schmitt argues in Political Theology that legal order ultimately rests upon the decisions of the sovereign. According to Schmitt, only the sovereign can meet the needs of an "exceptional" time and transcend legal order so that order can then be reestablished. Convinced that the state is governed by the ever-present possibility of conflict, Schmitt theorizes that the state exists only to maintain its integrity in order to ensure order and stability. Suggesting that all concepts of modern political thought are secularized theological concepts, Schmitt concludes Political Theology with a critique of liberalism and its attempt to depoliticize political thought by avoiding fundamental political decisions.]]> 121 Carl Schmitt 0226738892 Veronica 5 3.93 1922
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]]> 171255 ]]> 168 Judith Butler 1844675440 Veronica 4 4.22 2004
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]]> 235141 301 Jürgen Habermas 0262581086 Veronica 4 3.89 1962
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]]> 26694 496 Michael Hardt 0674006712 Veronica 4 3.75 2000
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]]> 765337 350 Gilles Deleuze 0231081596 Veronica 5 4.27 1968
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]]> 22913 Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.]]> 136 Gilles Deleuze 0816615152 Veronica 4 4.18 1975
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]]> 85826
In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault's fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle's notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over "life" is implicit.

The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitt's idea of the sovereign's status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificed―a paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective "naked life" of all individuals.]]> 208 Giorgio Agamben 0804732183 Veronica 4 4.05 1994
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A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.]]> 256 Theodor W. Adorno 1844670511 Veronica 5 4.25 1951
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]]> 139246 Sarrasine.]]> 271 Roland Barthes 0374521670 Veronica 5 4.01 1970
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Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.]]> 480 Mikhail Bakhtin 029271534X Veronica 5 4.17 1975
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Also included are his penetrating study on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an illuminating discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his thesis on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and prefaces them with a substantial, admirably informed introduction that presents Benjamin's personality and intellectual development, as well as his work and his life in dark times. Reflections the companion volume to this book, is also available as a Schocken paperback.

Unpacking My Library, 1931
The Task of the Translator, 1913
The Storyteller, 1936
Franz Kafka, 1934
Some Reflections on Kafka, 1938
What Is Epic Theater?, 1939
On Some Motifs in Baudelaire, 1939
The Image of Proust, 1929
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
Theses on the Philosophy of History, written 1940, pub. 1950]]> 278 Walter Benjamin 0805202412 Veronica 4 4.29 1955
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]]> 252648 144 Jean-François Lyotard 0816611734 Veronica 4 3.84 1979
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]]> 80795 A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There he wrote "Mimesis," publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive--and impassioned--response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours.
For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, "Mimesis" is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written.
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What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour’s analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming—and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture—and so, between our culture and others, past and present.

Nothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape, We Have Never Been Modern blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.]]> 168 Bruno Latour 0674948394 Veronica 4 3.94 1991
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]]> 440463 294 Marshall McLuhan 0802060412 Veronica 4 4.16 1962
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]]> 164515 216 Walter J. Ong 0415281296 Veronica 5 4.15 1982
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]]> 765346 Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models.

The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence—the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writing—for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida goes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,—new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkers—challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.]]> 362 Jacques Derrida 0226143295 Veronica 5 4.01 1967
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Henry Jenkins, one of America's most respected media analysts, delves beneath the new media hype to uncover the important cultural transformations that are taking place as media converge. He takes us into the secret world of "Survivor" Spoilers, where avid internet users pool their knowledge to unearth the show's secrets before they are revealed on the air. He introduces us to young "Harry Potter" fans who are writing their own Hogwarts tales while executives at Warner Brothers struggle for control of their franchise. He shows us how "The Matrix" has pushed transmedia storytelling to new levels, creating a fictional world where consumers track down bits of the story across multiple media channels.Jenkins argues that struggles over convergence will redefine the face of American popular culture. Industry leaders see opportunities to direct content across many channels to increase revenue and broaden markets. At the same time, consumers envision a liberated public sphere, free of network controls, in a decentralized media environment. Sometimes corporate and grassroots efforts reinforce each other, creating closer, more rewarding relations between media producers and consumers. Sometimes these two forces are at war.

Jenkins provides a riveting introduction to the world where every story gets told and every brand gets sold across multiple media platforms. He explains the cultural shift that is occurring as consumers fight for control across disparate channels, changing the way we do business, elect our leaders, and educate our children.]]> 368 Henry Jenkins 0814742815 Veronica 4 3.86 2006
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]]> 13099738 160 Austin Kleon 0761169253 Veronica 4 3.96 2012
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]]> 25955 The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward in the dense and poorly organized Understanding Media. McLuhan's ideas about the nature of media, the increasing speed of communication, and the technological basis for our understanding of who we are come to life in this slender volume. Although originally printed in 1967, the art and style in The Medium is the Massage seem as fresh today as in the summer of love, and the ideas are even more resonant now that computer interfaces are becoming gateways to the global village.]]> 160 Marshall McLuhan 1584230703 Veronica 3 3.98 1967
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]]> 10836810 A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the World Wars.

Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka.

Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished—and coveted—works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide.

Inspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of historical imagination. Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, The Last Nude is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret, and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.]]> 320 Ellis Avery 1594488134 Veronica 5 3.95 2012
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]]> 2784 176 John Berger 0140135154 Veronica 4 3.94 1972
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