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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
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Category: No Category | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Vladímir Nabokov (Introduction by, Translator); Brian Boyd
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Category: Poetry | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books, o ...Show more
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition by Carol J. Clover
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Category: Film & Performing Arts | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of ...Show more
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Princeton Classics
This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated N ...Show more
Reasons of Love (The) by Harry G. Frankfurt
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Category: Psychology | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
A clear, accessible exploration of how and why we love by prominent philosopher and bestselling author Harry FrankfurtIn The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that lo ...Show more
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldn
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Category: History | Series: Princeton Classics: Bollingen
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the p ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper's monumental achievement has ...Show more
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