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Identitti 2022 (Paperback)
Mithu Sanyal; Translated by Alta L Price
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An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts,
a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an
attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach
us about living better lives? Perhaps it’s less a matter of
asking what and more a matter of asking how. These latest
reflections from Italy’s foremost philosopher form a sort of
travelogue that chronicles Giorgio Agamben’s profound interior
journey. Here, with unprecedented immediacy, Agamben shares his
final remarks, late-life observations, and reflections about his
life that flashed before his eyes. What did he see in that brief
flash? What did he stay faithful to? What remains of all those
places, friends, and teachers?
Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and
its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its
gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our
present catastrophes in perspective-"calibrated"-against this
historical monstrosity. Kluge's newest work is a book about bitter
fates, both already known and yet to unfold. Above all, it is about
the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people.
These forty-eight stories of justice and injustice are dedicated to
the memory of Fritz Bauer, determined fighter for justice and
district attorney of Hesse during the Auschwitz Trials. "The moment
they come into existence, monstrous crimes have a unique ability,"
Bauer once said, "to ensure their own repetition." Kluge takes
heed, and in these pages reminds us of the importance of keeping
our powers of observation and memory razor sharp.
One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben,
analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets,
Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a
self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn’t living
mean—first and foremost—inhabiting? Pairing a detailed
chronology of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin’s years of
purported madness with a new examination of texts often considered
unreadable, Giorgio Agamben's new book aims to describe and
comprehend a life that the poet himself called habitual and
inhabited. Hölderlin’s life was split neatly in two: his
first 36 years, from 1770 to 1806; and the 36 years from 1807 to
1843, which he spent as a madman holed up in the home of Ernst
Zimmer, a carpenter. The poet lived the first half of his existence
out and about in the broader world, relatively engaged with current
events, only to then spend the second half entirely cut off from
the outside world. Despite occasional visitors, it was as if a wall
separated him from all external events and relationships. For
reasons that may well eventually become clear, Hölderlin chose to
expunge all character—historical, social, or otherwise—from the
actions and gestures of his daily life. According to his earliest
biographer, he often stubbornly repeated, “nothing happens to
me.” Such a life can only be the subject of a chronology—not a
biography, much less a clinical or psychological analysis.
Nevertheless, this book suggests that this is precisely how
Hölderlin offers humanity an entirely other notion of what it
means to live. Although we have yet to grasp the political
significance of his unprecedented way of life, it now clearly
speaks directly to our own.
With or Without Me is a book for everyone - believer or unbeliever,
Christian or atheist- who refuses to surrender to the idea that
there are easy answers to the big questions in life. Doubt about
God's goodness in the face of grief is natural. With or Without Me
is one woman's unsparing and eloquent memoir about the inadequacy
of religion and philosophy to answer her emotional pain. Yet Esther
Maria Magnis's rejection of God is merely the beginning of a
tortuous journey back to faith - one punctuated by personal losses
retold with bluntness and immediacy. Magnis knows believing in God
is anything but easy. Because he allows people to suffer. Because
he's invisible. And silent. "A must read for anyone who has ever
pondered the meaning of life" - Lydia S. Dugdale, Author of The
Lost Art of Dying
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New Year (Paperback)
Juli Zeh; Translated by Alta L Price
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R390
R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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Lanzarote on New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path
to Femes. As he struggles against the wind and the gradient he
takes stock of his life. He has a job, a wife, two children - yet
hardly recognises himself anymore. Panic attacks have been pouncing
on him like demons. When he finally reaches the pass in utter
exhaustion, a mysterious coincidence unveils a repressed yet vivid
memory, plunging him back into childhood and the traumatic event
that almost cost him and his sister their lives. In this masterful
novel, bestselling author Juli Zeh skillfully turns a New Year's
Day bike ride into an unexpectedly dark, psychological family
drama.
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About People
Juli Zeh; Translated by Alta L Price
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R506
R412
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New Year (Paperback)
Juli Zeh; Translated by Alta L Price
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R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
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2022 PEN Translation Award FINALIST In this masterful novel, author
Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a
middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride
to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama. Lanzarote on
New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path to Femes. As
he struggles against the wind and the gradient he takes stock of
his life. He has a job, a wife, two children-yet hardly recognizes
himself anymore. Panic attacks have been pouncing on him like
demons. When he finally reaches the pass in utter exhaustion, a
mysterious coincidence unveils a repressed yet vivid memory,
plunging him back into childhood and the traumatic event that
almost cost him and his sister their lives. In this masterful
novel, bestselling author Juli Zeh skillfully turns a New Year's
Day bike ride into an unexpectedly dark, psychological family
drama.
Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown
of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave
so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls
around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from
her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the
radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds
herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble, Victoria and her
former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of
characters, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman's
self-discovery. In her stunning second novel, Swiss-Romanian writer
Dana Grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colourful
pictures. With humor and wit, she describes a world full of myriad
surprises where new and old cultures weave together--a world
bursting with character and spirit.
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