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FICCIONES

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

Publisher: Grove Press

ISBN-13: 978-0802130303

Edited by Anthony Kerrigan, Ficciones demonstrates the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges’s Prologues, his piercing irony, skepticism, and obsession with fantasy. Entering the worlds in Ficciones is entering the mind of Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

PEDRO PÁRAMO

Author: Juan Rulfo

Publisher: Grove Press

ISBN-13: 978-0802160935

A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man’s quest for his lost father. When he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Now published in a new translation by Douglas J. Weatherford, this new edition features a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez, and cements its place as one of the seminal literary texts of the twentieth century.

IN THE WAKE OF TRAUMA: PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SUFFERING OTHER

Authors: Eric R. Severson, Brian W. Becker & David M. Goodman

Publisher: Duquesne University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0820704982

When traumatic experiences occur, our patterns of living — the ways in which our bodies and minds have grown accustomed to feeling and reacting — are threatened. When psychologists, philosophers, or theologians turn their attention to trauma, they face a daunting task, as trauma is a concept that is incredibly difficult to understand and to describe. Yet it is crucial to persist. By drawing on resources across these disciplines (and others), the contributors here struggle together to foster conversation that deepens the ability of practitioners and theoreticians alike to engage with the effects of trauma.

LIVED EXPERIENCE FROM THE INSIDE OUT: SOCIAL AD POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN EDITH STEIN

Author: Antonio Calcagno

Publisher: Duquesne University Press

ISBN-13: 978-082070478-4

Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein examines, in particular, three significant works written while Stein was working with Edmund Husserl as both a student and collaborator: The Problem of Empathy, Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities, and An Investigation Concerning the State. These texts provide rich sources of social and political insight, with Stein’s particular focus on individual consciousness as the entry point: how we understand and live, always from our own interiorities, the phenomenal experiences of self, others, the masses, society, community, and the state.

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INTERROGATING ETHICS: EMBODYING THE GOOD IN MERLEAU-PONTY

Edited by: James Hatley, Janice McLane, & Christian Diehm

Publisher: Duquesne University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0820703834

In this unique and timely volume, articles by both established Merleau-Ponty scholars and relative newcomers explore Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of human subjectivity, corporeality, and active engagement in the world. From presentations of Merleau-Ponty’s convergences and divergences with his predecessors, to lively discussions of issues as contemporary as the significance of his thought for environmental ethics, these essays capture and depth and breadth of Merleau-Ponty’s significance to conversations about ethics, but also suggest the rich opportunities for much exploration still to be done in both interpreting and understanding this essential thinker.

EXISTENCE AND EXISTENTS

Author: Emmanuel Levinas 

Publisher: Duquesne University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0920703190

Levina’s project in Existence and Existents is to move from anonymous existence to the emergence of subjectivity; to subjectivity’s practice, theory and morality; to its encounter with the alterity of the other person. He is concerned here primarily with the time of the solitary subject; time in the inner structure of subjectivity, of the movement of existing. As a “preparatory” study, this volume introduces the major themes and concerns that occupied Levinas throughout his career. This is essential reading for understanding both Levina’s own philosophy and the developments in philosophical thought in the twentieth century.

A HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

Author: Gabriel García Marquez

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

ISBN-13: 978-0061120091

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

TWENTY LOVE POEMS AND A SONG OF DESPAIR

Author: Pablo Neruda  

Publisher: independently published

ISBN-13: 978-1710627640

Published in 1924, when Pablo Neruda was only twenty years old, this striking collection of love poems has proven to be the Nobel Laureate’s most popular work. The sensual imagery and heartbreaking verse have inspired lovers and lovers of poetry for nearly a century. This translation by J. Simon Harris captures the fire of the original and stays true to the poetry. This edition includes the original Spanish text of the poems on facing pages, as well as an introduction to the poet and the poems.