A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references r…

If you like book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments similar books

Eros the Bittersweet

Buy this book on Amazon
Gravity and Grace

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death…
Buy this book on Amazon
En caso de amor. Parapsicología de la vida amorosa

Buy this book on Amazon
La amistad

Buy this book on Amazon
The Sorrows of Young Werther

This is Goethe's first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alt…
Buy this book on Amazon
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

Buy this book on Amazon
Simulacra and Simulation

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Poetics of Space

Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space remains one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Bachelard takes us on a journ…
Buy this book on Amazon
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.

A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's litera…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

Buy this book on Amazon
Simple Passion

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att…
Buy this book on Amazon
Diarios

Buy this book on Amazon
The Agony of Eros

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new…
Buy this book on Amazon
Água Viva

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming …
Buy this book on Amazon
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse

Buy this book on Amazon
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today…
Buy this book on Amazon
Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs

Buy this book on Amazon
The Society of the Spectacle

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the prese…
Buy this book on Amazon
Regarding the Pain of Others

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Lesbian Body

Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships.

"That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level."
—The Boston…
Buy this book on Amazon