Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
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A classic work that has revolutionized thinking throughout the Western world about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. "Bold and often brilliant.”—Sci…
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
The Divided Self is a unique study of the human situation.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent,…
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
After 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system. What effects has this “capitalist realism” had on work, culture, education and mental health? Is it possibl…
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Confessions
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The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
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An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Philosophical Investigations
Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most…
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life , Stigma is analyzes a person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls “normal.”
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