The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays - Tim Kreider
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Foretelling the End of Capitalism: Intellectual Misadventures since Karl Marx - Francesco Boldizzoni
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A Left That Dares To Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions - Slavoj Zizek
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Zizek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future- Zahi Zalloua
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Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene - Andreas Weber
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning - Marcelo Gleiser
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We Learn Nothing - Tim Kreider
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The Currency of Desire: Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis, and Sexual Revolution - David Bennett
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Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World- Slavoj Zizek
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Mark Fisher
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Theology, Comedy, and Politics- Marcus Pound
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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity - Slavoj Zizek
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts - Ruth Goodman
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God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse- Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I - Charles Spencer
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The Whole Thing: The Story of the Bible Through Six Images- Jason English
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World- Steven Johnson
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The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age- Gordon Marino
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