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Still Arrow Three Attempts to Annul Time
ISBN: HB: 9780857428516, Seagull Books, July 2021
158 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Elvio Fachinelli was a leading Italian psychoanalyst of the 1960s-80s whose clinical, theoretical, and radical work resonated well beyond his discipline. In The Still Arrow, Fachinelli launched an interdisciplinary investigation ranging from anthropo...
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£16,99
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Golden Horde Revolutionary Italy, 1960-1977
ISBN: HB: 9780857427465, Seagull Books, May 2021
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and '70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, the volume widens our understanding of the full complexity and richnes...
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£35,00
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Writer and the People
ISBN: HB: 9780857423429, Seagull Books, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Originally published in 1965, "The Writer and the People" was one of the key books in the revitalization and invigoration of the young Left in late-1960s Italy. Aiming to demystify the myth of populism, Alberto Asor Rosa takes on Marxism and its lega...
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£26,50
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Secret Germany Myth in Twentieth-Century German Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780857424815, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into eve...
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£22,00
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Time and Festivity
ISBN: HB: 9780857426307, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and...
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£19,00
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Within the Sweet Noise of Life Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857427878, Seagull Books, January 2021
120 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Widely considered to be among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, Sandro Penna was born and raised in Perugia but spent most of his life in Rome. Openly gay, Penna wrote verses celebrating homosexual love with lyrical elegance....
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£14,99
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Kingdom and the Garden
ISBN: HB: 9780857427861, Seagull Books, August 2020
164 pp., 19.7x13.9 cm
What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in "The Kingdom and the Garden", Giorgio Agamben uses it as a starting point for an investigation of human nature and t...
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£14,99
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Class
ISBN: HB: 9780857424372, Seagull Books, September 2019
136 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and under the spell of anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small, that sad figure returns –...
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£16,99
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Solitary
ISBN: HB: 9780857426079, Seagull Books, March 2019
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
We learn more every year about the damaging effects of solitary confinement. This unquestionably cruel and unusual punishment leaves prisoners with no human contact, sometimes for years at a time, and it nearly always leads to lasting trauma. In "Sol...
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£18,99
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Life in Peacetime
ISBN: HB: 9780857424822, Seagull Books, March 2019
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When "Life in Peactime" opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry – but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reef...
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£20,00
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