Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
9 best books like Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Slavoj Žižek): The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, I Malavoglia, The Flamethrowers, Letter to His Father, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82, Le libere donne di Magliano, Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
| Author | Giorgio Bassani |
| ISBN | 1400044227 |
Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
Made into an Academy Award winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis "is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction...
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Author | Carlo Levi |
| ISBN | 0374530092 |
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
| Author | Giovanni Verga |
| ISBN | 8811582962 |
Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realtà locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e racconta la semplice e rissosa quotidianità in cui vivono i Toscano, detti appunto i Malavoglia. Avvertendo come poco espressive le realtà borghesi, Verga cerca di rompere l'impianto romanzesco classico,...
| Author | Rachel Kushner |
| ISBN | 1439142009 |
The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 0805204261 |
I have felt very uncomfortable reading this letter. And the thought that I--together with a very large number of people-- have read something which was not intended for us, as well as the knowledge that the original addressee never read it, contributed further to my uneasiness.
Franz...
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0312425708 |
The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their choosing. Attended by thousands, Foucault's lectures were seminal events in the world of French letters, and his ideas...
| Author | Mario Tobino |
| ISBN | 8804340894 |
A Magliano, nell'ospedale psichiatrico, le donne sono libere: una libertà dolorosa, d'accordo, con i confini di tutti i manicomi; ma dove lo slancio della fantasia, il pungolo della contrizione, la manifestazione del desiderio sessuale, l'esplosione dell'urlo che provochi scalpore, l'autolesione...
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816614369 |
Deleuze—ere he embarks upon an excellent and edifying exegesis of the three great Kantian Critiques over sixty-five dense and still difficult pages—sets the stage for the reader by proffering four poetic formulas which might summarize the Kantian philosophy that, in my opinion, manage quite...
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 0804736332 |
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...
