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It’s 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency, and the curtain is closing on the Cold War. In the absence of external adversaries, the American public is on the precipice of war with itself. The religious right, newly ascendant and emboldened, is determined to seize control of America’s future. And the first battles will be fought over, of all things, contemporary art.

A radically vulnerable and virtuosic inquiry into the pursuit of freedom and the interminable nature of struggle, from the award-winning author of What We Lose Weaving personal reflections with piercing insight and expansive vision across nine brilliant essays, Clemmons explores the complexities...

From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascism, structured around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the single: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump's America. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us – like 'post-truth'– to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, these writings reveal the uneasy mixture of lies and truths that have always been stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another.

The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek argues that the experience of true, radical freedom is transient and fragile. Countering the idea of libertarian individualism, Žižek draws on philosophers Hegel, Kierkegaard and Heidegger, as well as the work of Kandinsky and Agatha Christie to examine the many facets of freedom and what we can learn from each of them.

From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume and the products foisted upon us. Today’s...

Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives—ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to love and to be loved, and what is worth loving and worth being, are inextricable from our most deeply-held commitments in ethics, politics, religion, and metaphysics.

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Solidarity is both an idea and a way of acting in the world, both a condition and a virtue. But, as Rowan Williams argues in this impassioned work, it's only by exploring how we are able to speak with and work alongside each other that we can unlock the real power of solidarity as a model for real community and care. Williams shows how understanding solidarity is an ongoing labor of self-scrutiny and communication in which difference and strangeness are affirmed, not elided.

How do underdogs, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win? In the tradition of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce's Practical Radicals offers winning strategies, history, and theory for a new generation of activists.

Listening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well.” In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new translation of Plutarch’s classic essay about how to become a skilled listener, complete with an inviting introduction.

In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy.

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount.

"Usando seu vasto conhecimento e as reflexões da Escola Austríaca de Economia, Hans-Hermann Hoppe aborda, ao longo de Uma Breve História do Homem, duas questões principais: qual é a origem da família e da propriedade privada? Como teve início a Revolução Industrial? Os ouvintes verão que o desenvolvimento do direito à propriedade assegurado e do livre mercado foi essencial para o progresso da humanidade.

Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. Yet it’s also easy to shirk or defer—until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional. The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions:

A rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention, with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity, by a group of writers, artists, and activists in the vanguard of the movement “A stirring battle cry on behalf of our shared humanity against the forces that seek to diminish and...

Even the most reasonable of us can be selective about when we think reasonably. We may realize that the best thing to do is to take the advice of our doctor when facing a medical issue. When shopping for a new car or appliance we might carefully assess online reviews and weigh our options calmly before making an informed decision. But when it comes to things that feel more fraught, we might throw this approach out the window, dismissing facts and patterns that form a body of evidence, and trust our gut.

In diesem Abschnitt aus Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern zeigt Thoreau, wie man mit minimalen Mitteln – Holzfällen, Fischfang und Gemüseanbau – genügsam leben kann, ohne das Gefühl des Verzichts. Mal nüchtern-praktisches Konstrukt, mal poetische, philosophische Betrachtung – stets tiefgründig und inspirierend. Eine inspirierende Meditation über Selbstgenügsamkeit, Naturverbundenheit und bewusste Lebensführung – ein Erfolgskonzept für Aussteiger, Frugalisten und Naturliebhaber.

Einfach leben & bewusst denken – Thoreaus Klassiker aus Walden , ungekürzt gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: In Wo ich lebte und wofür ich lebte , einem der zentralen Kapitel aus Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern , schildert Henry David Thoreau seine Gründe für den Rückzug in die Natur. Zwei Jahre lang lebte er in einer selbstgebauten Hütte am Walden-See – einfach, unabhängig und im Einklang mit der Natur. Dieses Kapitel verbindet nüchterne Alltagsschilderung mit tiefgründigen Gedanken über das Wesen des Menschen, die Freiheit, den Konsum – und das bewusste Leben.

In Das Unbehagen in der Kultur analysiert Sigmund Freud die Spannung zwischen menschlichen Trieben und zivilisatorischen Anforderungen. Wie entsteht Unzufriedenheit in einer entwickelten Gesellschaft? Warum führt Kultur nicht automatisch zu Glück? Freud entwirft ein tiefgreifendes Modell des kulturellen Daseins, in dem individuelle Freiheit und kollektive Ordnung in einem ständigen Spannungsverhältnis stehen – ein Klassiker der Kulturtheorie und ein Schlüsseltext der Psychoanalyse.

性愛の享楽は社会の正義と両立しない―――宮台「良い変態」は社会の抜け道である―――二村社会が良くなっても性的に幸せになれるわけではない。むしろその逆が起きている。