The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-Chi Lu
10 best books like The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-Chi Lu (Línjì Yìxuán): Pale Fire, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007, A Temple of Texts, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty, Where the Stress Falls: Essays, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0141185260 |
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?...
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
On the Genealogy of Morals
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
| Author | Wumen Huikai |
| ISBN | 0861713826 |
In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments...
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007
Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out.
Can what is playing you make it to Level 2?
Fanged Noumena assembles for the first...
| Author | William H. Gass |
| ISBN | 0307262863 |
From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from...
| Author | Georges Bataille |
| ISBN | 0942299213 |
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. In the second and third volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, Bataille explores...
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0099289415 |
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Christina Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0822362945 |
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
