Genre: Society/Culture

Notes on Democracy

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Previous slide Next slide Notes on Democracy by enormously influential journalist and cultural critic H. L. Mencken is an incisive and astonishingly […]

The Right to Be Lazy

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Previous slide Next slide This newly revised and corrected translation of Lafargue’s classic The Right to Be Lazy includes “The Woman Question,” […]

Mutual Aid

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Previous Next Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution represents one of the major contributions to twentieth-century political thought. A classic, though […]

Civilization and Its Discontents

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Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes […]

Looking Backward

Previous Next In Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, what is, on the surface, a time travel love story quickly becomes a deep exploration […]

Beyond Good and Evil

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Previous slide Next slide Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, ranks among the most influential works of moral […]

An Anarchist’s Manifesto

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“An Anarchist’s Manifesto is a perfect introduction and reframing of a much-maligned and misunderstood idea. Glenn Wallis’s timely and beautifully written book […]

The Stones of Florence

. Previous Next Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy’s The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sweeping tour of […]

Venice Observed

Previous Next With a lack of sentimentality unusual for the genre, Venice Observed explores the history, art, architecture, religion, and cultural peculiarities […]