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The Academic Shelf
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
The Bataille Reader
Andrew Bennett
No man can live a happy life, without the study of wisdom
Features texts spanning Bataille’s career, surrealism to post-war writings on
Georges Bataille
Eros and Civilization
The Essential Guide to literary studies
Herbert Marcuse's point that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts,
Provincializing Europe
The Wretched of the Earth
Freakonomics
The Body in Pain
Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europ
Frantz Fanon that explores the physical and mental damage caused by colonialism
Stephen Dubner uses data and economic principles to explain the hidden motivations behind human behavior
The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces
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