Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human bei...more
Considered by many (including the author himself) to be Nietzsche's most significant work, THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA is a strange amalgamation of poetry, philosophy, literature and biblical parody. Nietzsche re-imagines the story of Zarathustra, the prophet of the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism, and through Zarathustra he gives voice to his pseud...more
America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia refreshes our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare’...more
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others ...more
First published in 1890, The Golden Bough is a seminal work of modern anthropology. A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind that traces the development and confluence of thought from magic and ritual to modern scientific theory, it has been a source of great influence upon such diverse writers as T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and D...more
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introducti...more
Freud's groundbreaking, troublemaking theory of sexuality-infantile (developmental), adolescent (transformational), and deviant-in the classic Strachey translation, with a new foreword by Nancy Chodorow, who re-animates it from the postmodern perspectives of feminist psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender.
A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including: "On the Introduction of Narcissim", "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through", "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", "The Ego and the ID and Inhibition, Symptom and Fear".
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