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Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed. The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.

Esta exposição sobre a teoria do conhecimento originou-se nas aulas proferidas pelo autor na Universidade de Colônia. Isso explica o esforço, não tanto para a tudo oferecer soluções completas, mas para apresentar de modo claro e minucioso o sentido dos problemas e as diferentes possibilidades de solução, sem renunciar a um exame crítico e a uma tomada de posição.

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of logos. The task of religion is “to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations.” She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from “dedicated intellectual endeavor” and a “compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood.”

«Dans ce huis clos toujours recommencé et à mes yeux formidablement romanesque, dans cette foule de visages et ce concert de voix qui tissent la mémoire d’un psychanalyste et parfois se confondent, j’ai eu envie de connaître celui ou celle qu’ils n’oublieront pas : leur patient préféré, ou du moins capital. Celui dont le passé a peut-être fait mystérieusement écho au leur. Celui qui, hors des sentiers balisés de la psychanalyse, leur a parfois inspiré de la haine, de l’affection, du dégoût ou de l’admiration. Celui dont les mots, les songes, la fulgurance de la cure ou bien les résistances ont fait d’eux un «psy» différent.»

How can we think about peoples and cultures unlike our own? In the early modern period, the fact of human diversity presented Europeans with little cause for they simply assumed the superiority of the West. During the eighteenth century this view was gradually abandoned, as thinkers argued that other peoples possessed reason and sensibility, and thus deserved the same respect that Westerners accorded themselves. Since that time, however, Enlightenment belief in the universals of human nature has fallen into disrepute; critics allege that such notions have had disastrous consequences in the twentieth century, ranging from prejudice to persecution and outright genocide. Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally admired scholar, aims in this book to salvage the good name of the Enlightenment so that its ideas can once more inspire humane thought and action. The question he poses is of urgent relevance to the conflicts of our How can we avoid the dangers of a perverted universalism and scientism, as well as the pitfalls of relativism? Since the French were the ideologues of universalism and played a preeminent role in the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas in Europe, Todorov focuses on the French intellectual tradition, analyzing writers ranging from Montaigne through Tocqueville, Michelet, and Renan, to Lévi-Strauss. He shows how theories of human diversity were developed in the eighteenth century, and later systematically distorted. The virtues of Enlightenment thought became vices in the hands of nineteenth-century thinkers, as a result of racism, nationalism, and the search for exoticism. Todorov calls for us to reject this legacy and to strive once again for an acceptance of human diversity, through a "critical humanism" prefigured in the writings of Rousseau and Montesquieu. This is a work of impressive erudition and insight—a masterly synthesis that can help us think incisively about the racial and ethnic tensions confronting the world today.

Contemporary forms of tension and conflict among nations cannot be described in terms familiar to twentieth century history, but neither can they be reduced to a 'clash of civilizations'. The world today is not divided between an enlightened West and the dark forces of Islam. To avoid the negative impact of these Manichean images we need a much more nuanced view. In this new book Tzvetan Todorov offers an original analysis of the new landscape of fear and resentment that characterizes our world today. He starts by redefining the notions of barbarism and civilization as universal moral categories and explains how they apply to the plurality of cultures; and he distinguishes carefully between various forms of collective identity - cultural, civic and ideological. These conceptual tools enable him to shed fresh light on the current struggle against terrorism and the tensions between communities within Western countries. He invites us to overcome our fears - for fear is a dangerous motive and risks producing an evil that is worse than the evil we initially feared. The fear of the barbarians can turn us into barbarians. Richly illustrated with examples ranging from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib to the murder of Theo Van Gogh and the Danish cartoons, this powerful plea for civilized values will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the key challenges facing the world today.

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today.

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. Fanon's analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.

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The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two.“This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.” —Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology“This is a remarkable book—remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior…It ought to be…valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.” —Harry Prosch, Ethics

The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent. "A much more effective work than Beyond Freedom and Dignity precisely because it takes more seriously the tradition (or the historical prejudices) of its opposition." — Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "About Behaviorism is an opportunity to match wits with one of the great men of psychology and to participate in some of its great debates." — James B. Rule, Newsday "The battle over Skinner’s ideas is just beginning. It promises to be one of the most interesting contests of our generation." — Gail Boyer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Maternal instinct—the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children—has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution. Hrdy strips away stereotypes and gender-biased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation. As Hrdy argues, far from being "selfless," successful primate mothers have always combined nurturing with ambition, mother love with sexual love, ambivalence with devotion. In fact all mothers, in the struggle to guarantee both their own survival and that of their offspring, deal nimbly with competing demands and conflicting strategies. In her nuanced, stunningly original interpretation of the relationships between mothers and fathers, mothers and babies, and mothers and their social groups, Hrdy offers not only a revolutionary new meaning to motherhood but an important new understanding of human evolution. Written with grace and clarity, suffused with the wisdom of a long and distinguished career, Mother Nature is a profound contribution to our understanding of who we are as a species—and why we have become this way.

The author of The Evolution of Desire reveals that jealousy is actually the evolutionary glue that holds couples together. Original.

Este livro reflete sobre as condições socioculturais que propiciaram o aparecimento de diferentes teorias psicológicas e sua difusão, sobretudo na área clínica.

Este livro-texto reúne artigos que oferecem uma reflexão sobre a História da Psicologia produzida por autores que conhecem a realidade do ensino universitário e da pesquisa no Brasil, atuando nas principais instituições de nosso país. Diferente de uma coletânea, História da Psicologia foi estruturado e tecnicamente revisto de forma a oferecer ao leitor uma visão geral sobre o tema, evitando repetições e ausências. Conta também com uma inédita contribuição sobre o estabelecimento deste campo de conhecimento e atuação no Brasil após os mais de quarenta anos da regulamentação da profissão de psicólogo. Uma obra própria para adoção em cursos de História da Psicologia ou Introdução à Psicologia de qualquer universidade.

A market leader for over 30 years, A HISTORY OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY has been praised for its comprehensive coverage and biographical approach. Focusing on modern psychology, the text's coverage begins with the late 19th century. The authors personalize the history of psychology not only by using biographical information on influential theorists, but also by showing how major events in those theorists' lives have affected the authors' own ideas, approaches, and methods. Substantial updates in this edition include discussions of evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and positive psychology. The result is a text that is as timely and relevant today as it was when it was first introduced.

All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world and the impact of modernism on art, literature and architecture. This new edition contains an updated preface addressing the critical role the onset of modernism played in popular democratic upheavals in the late 1920s.

A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists. Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society.

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by the most influential philosopher since Sartre compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as he examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, Michel Foucault suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner's body to the soul—and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity. Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshaling a vast body of research, Discipline and Punish is a genuinely revolutionary book, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society.

"Analyzes life as we are living it, and the analysis is truthful and profound."— New York Times Loneliness, boredom, These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration—a basic and inborn sense of value. Man's Search for Himself is an illuminating view of our predicament in an age of overwhelming anxieties and gives guidance on how to choose, judge, and act during such times.

A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer

Together with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period and Phenomenology of Perception, first published in 1945, is his masterpiece. What makes this work so important is that it returned the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other questions, Berger quietly—but fundamentally—alters the vision of anyone who reads his work. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever read', Art and Illusion is a classic study of image-making. It seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? The question may be simple but there is no easy answer, and Professor Gombrich's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him into countless crucial areas. Gombrich examines, questions and re-evaluates old and new ideas on such matters as the imitation of nature, the function of tradition, the problem of abstraction, the validity of perspective and the interpretation of expression: all of which reveal that pictorial representation is far from being a straightforward matter. First published more than 40 years ago, Art and Illusion has lost none of its vitality and importance. In applying the findings of experimental science to a nuanced understanding of art and in tackling complex ideas and theoretical issues, Gombrich is rigorous. Yet he always retains a sense of wonder at the inexhaustible capacity of the human brain, and at the subtlety of the relationships involved in seeing the world and in making and seeing art. With profound knowledge and his exceptional gift for clear exposition, he advances each argument as an hypothesis to be tested. The problems of representation are forever fundamental to the history of art: Art and Illusion remains an essential text for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of art. For the sixth edition Professor Gombrich has written an entirely new 12-page preface, in which he makes use of the distinction between an image and a sign, so as to clarify his intentions in writing the book in the first place.

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this provocative essay proposes counter models too, presenting a wealth of ideas and surprising alternatives at every turn.

In this fresh translation of five lectures delivered in 1907 at the University of Göttingen, Edmund Husserl lays out the philosophical problem of knowledge, indicates the requirements for its solution, and for the first time introduces the phenomenological method of reduction. For those interested in the genesis and development of Husserl's phenomenology, this text affords a unique glimpse into the epistemological motivation of his work, his concept of intentionality, and the formation of central phenomenological concepts that will later go by the names of `transcendental consciousness', the `noema', and the like. As a teaching text, The Idea of Phenomenology is it is brief, it is unencumbered by the technical terminology of Husserl's later work, it bears a clear connection to the problem of knowledge as formulated in the Cartesian tradition, and it is accompanied by a translator's introduction that clearly spells out the structure, argument, and movement of the text.

This first volume of John Bowlby's Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior how it develops, how it is maintained, what functions it fulfills. In the fifteen years since Attachment was first published, there have been major developments in both theoretical discussion and empirical research on attachment. The second edition, with two wholly new chapters and substantial revisions, incorporates these developments and assesses their importance to attachment theory.

In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment anf Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary of permenant loss of a mother-figure and the expression of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss. The theories presented differ in many ways from those advanced by Freud and elaborated by his followers, so much so that the frame of reference now offered for understanding personality developement and psychopathology amounts to a new paradigm.

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.” Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, or those ostracized for other reasons must constantly strive to adjust to their precarious social identities. Their image of themselves must daily confront and be affronted by the image which others reflect back to them. Drawing extensively on autobiographies and case studies, sociologist Erving Goffman analyzes the stigmatized person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to “normals” He explores the variety of strategies stigmatized individuals employ to deal with the rejection of others, and the complex sorts of information about themselves they project. In Stigma the interplay of alternatives the stigmatized individual must face every day is brilliantly examined by one of America’s leading social analysts.

Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" — closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals—where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It describes what these institutions make of the inmate, and what he or she can make of life inside them. Special attention is focused on mental hospitals, drawing on the author's year of field work at St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., one of America's most well-known institutions. It is the thesis of this book that the most important factor in forming a mental-hospital patient is the institution, not the illness, and that the patient's reactions and adjustments are those of inmates in other types of institutions as well. The first essay is a general portrait of life in a total instituion. The other three consider special aspects of this the initial effects of institutionlization on the inmate's previous social relationships; the ways of adapting once in the institution; and the role of the staff in presenting to the inmate the facts of his or her situation.

The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss’s understanding of man and society in terms of individuals—kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.

The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Lévi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the mind of one of the foremost anthropologists of our time. "Structural Anthropology, Volume II is a diverse collection. [It is] a useful 'sampler' that gives a reader the full range of Lévi-Strauss' interests."—Daniel Bell, New York Times Book Review

Dois ensaios de referência fundamental para os estudos de gênero e sexualidade são reunidos e publicados neste volume. “O tráfico de mulheres” foi publicado em 1975, sob o impacto da tradução de Lévi-Strauss e da crescente presença do marxismo e da psicanálise no meio acadêmico estadunidense, num período em que as ciências humanas afirmavam que a desigualdade não era natural (mas social), e a antropologia se questionava sobre a universalidade da opressão das mulheres. Revendo e problematizando autores canônicos – Marx e Engels, Lévi-Strauss, Freud e Lacan – Rubin utiliza pela primeira vez o termo gênero num texto de teoria antropológica, afirmando a existência de um sistema de sexo-gênero, associado à própria passagem da natureza para a cultura. Ela critica e questiona a heterossexualidade implícita no raciocínio desses autores – como a presença de um tabu anterior ao do incesto, o da homossexualidade na teoria de Lévi-Strauss. Numa linguagem acessível para não antropólogos, Rubin argumenta que gênero e sexualidade devem ser pensados em interação, sugerindo que é o próprio arranjo do parentesco que produz socialmente o gênero, uma vez que por meio do casamento e da divisão sexual do trabalho se institui a diferença entre homens e mulheres. A desigualdade socialentre homens e mulheres aparece em estreita conexão com o controle da sexualidade feminina e a instituição do ideal heterossexual. Marco da reflexão sobre sexualidade, em “Pensando o sexo”, a autora argumenta que a sexualidade constitui uma categoria de desigualdade em si – em certa medida um eixo de hierarquia descolado do gênero. De modo provocativo, o texto problematiza as categorias classificatórias e expõe algumas formas regulatórias da sexualidade, como o direito e a medicina. Em diálogo com Foucault, revisões históricas como a de Jeffrey Weeks, além da evidente inspiração nas análises antropológicas que descrevem a diversidade cultural com relação à sexualidade, Rubin criticou a moralidade sexual subjacente às teorias e aos movimentos sociais com a mesma veemência com que tratou o status quo da teoria antropológica. Estes ensaios constituem os dois textos mais influentes de uma autora que se afirma militante feminista e pelos direitos das minorias sexuais. São textos fundamentais para entender o debate contemporâneo sobre gênero e sexualidade.

The Invention of Culture, one of the most important works in symbolic anthropology in recent years, argues that culture is not a given that shapes the lives of the people who share it. Rather, it is people who shape their culture by constantly manipulating conventional symbols taken from a variety of everchanging codes to create new meanings. Wagner sees culture arising from the dialectic between the individual and the social world; his analysis is situated in the relation between invention and convention, innovation and control, meaning and context. Finally, the author points out that the symbolization processes that generate the construction of meaning in culture are the same as those that anthropologists use to "invent" the cultures they study.

Brazilian anthropologist Manuela Carneiro da Cunha examines here the complex meaning—and anthropological implications—of the word “culture” for indigenous peoples. Caneiro da Cunha explores the contradictions inherent in the interface between Western and traditional understandings of knowledge and intellectual property rights. Distinguishing culture from “culture,” the latter being a reflexive awareness of one’s culture, Carneiro da Cunha then poses questions such What are the cognitive and pragmatic consequences when “culture” and culture coexist? She shows how the word “culture,” as used in the anthropological sense, is employed by indigenous people to distinguish the different interpretations and avoid contradictions. “Culture” and Culture offers a concise and innovative anthropological study of a crucial issue faced by indigenous peoples the world over.

Cartas a Spinoza é a única publicação da Dra. Nise da Silveira onde podemos desvelar um pouco do mundo interno da mestra. Suas angústias, suas convicções, suas discordâncias em relação ao filósofo do afeto se encadeia numa leitura de fluxo suave porém profundo. Essa edição foi cercada de extremos cuidados com a revisão e o cotejamento com os manuscritos originais e posteriores revisões da própria Dra. Nise, liderada pelo seu principal discípulo e biógrafo, Luiz Carlos Mello.

Este livro de Marta Dantas sobre a vida e a obra de Arthur Bispo do Rosário fará o leitor pensar, sobretudo aquele que estiver habituado às tradicionais monografias sobre artistas cultos que têm lugar indiscutível na História da Arte. Respeitando a particularidade da Poética bruta a ser estudada, a autora analisa os objetos, as miniaturas, os escritos, as vestimentas, os bordados e o principal trabalho do artista, o Manto da apresentação, que é a "síntese da mitopoética do artista, de uma vida transformada em ilusão"; e articula Ciências Humanas, Estética e História da Arte, numa perspectiva refinada que transcende o convencional.

Analyzes the expression and repression of desire in Western culture and tells how to avoid fascism in one's life

Sartre contemplates the human emotional experience by analyzing phenomenological psychology and existentialism In The Outline of a Theory, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy while asserting that human beings begin to develop emotional capabilities from a very early age, which helps them identify and understand the emotions’ names and qualities later in life.Helping to complete the circle of Sartre’s many theories on existentialism, this vital piece of literature is a must-have for the philosopher-in-training’s collection.

Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire. Preciado lays out mock constitutional principles for a countersexual revolution that will recognize genitalia as technological objects and offers step-by-step illustrated instructions for dismantling the heterocentric social contract. He calls theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Butler, and Haraway to task for not going nearly far enough in their attempts to deconstruct the naturalization of normative identities and behaviors. Preciado's claim that the dildo precedes the penis—that artifice, not nature, comes first in the history of sexuality—forms the basis of his demand for new practices of sexual emancipation. He calls for a world of sexual plasticity and fabrication, of bio-printers and "dildonics," and he invokes countersexuality's roots in the history of sex toys, pornography, and drag in order to rupture the supposedly biological foundations of the heterocentric regime. His claims are extreme, but supported through meticulous readings of philosophy and theory, as well as popular culture. The Manifesto is now available in English translation for its twentieth anniversary, with a new introduction by Preciado. Countersexual Manifesto will disrupt feminism and queer theory and scandalize us all with its hyperbolic but deadly serious defiancé of everything we've been told about sex.

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge. Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which in turn give rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries evoked very different images of the events of Jesus' life; how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and how working class construction of reality differ from those of their middle-class counterparts. With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this translation will be an indispensable source for new research in historical sociology and cultural memory. Lewis A. Coser is Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

A antologia Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres é composta de 13 contos, cujas histórias têm como protagonistas mulheres negras. De dentro da cena, vozes-mulheres explicitam suas dores, anseios, temores, mas, antes de tudo revelam a imensa capacidade de se retirem do lugar do sofrimento e inventarem modos de resistência. Uma intima fusão entre as personagens, a voz ficcional de quem apresenta essas personagens e a autora, marca o processo criativo dos textos e afirma o projeto literário de Conceição Evaristo, o de traçar uma escrevivência.

«Éste es un libro sobre la vida... apasionado y alegre, sentimental y burlón.» ROSA MONTERO. Una narración a medio camino entre el recuerdo personal y la memoria de todos, entre el análisis de nuestra época y la evocación íntima. Son páginas que hablan de la superación del dolor, de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres, del esplendor del sexo, de la buena muerte y de la bella vida, de la ciencia y de la ignorancia, de la fuerza salvadora de la literatura y de la sabiduría de quienes aprenden a disfrutar de la existencia con plenitud y con ligereza. Vivo y original, este libro inclasificable incluye fotos, remembranzas, amistades y anécdotas que transmiten el primitivo placer de escuchar buenas historias. Sentirás que ha sido escrito sólo para ti.

Sequência às teses de O anti-Édipo, contendo todos os componentes de um tratado de filosofia clássica - ontologia, física, lógica, psicologia, moral, política e estética. A obra é organizada em quinze "platôs", que podem ser lidos de forma independente. O volume 3 inclui os platôs 6) 28 de novembro de 1947 - Como criar para si um Corpo sem Órgãos?; 7) Ano zero - Rostidade; 8) 1874 - Três novelas ou "O que se passou?"; e 9) 1933 - Micropolítica e segmentaridade. Na presente edição foram acrescentados a indicação das páginas da edição original francesa, índice onomástico, índice das matérias e uma bibliografia de Deleuze e Guattari.

Sequência às teses de O anti-Édipo, contendo todos os componentes de um tratado de filosofia clássica - ontologia, física, lógica, psicologia, moral, política e estética. A obra é organizada em quinze "platôs", que podem ser lidos de forma independente. O volume 2 inclui os platôs 4) 20 de novembro de 1923 - Postulados de linguística; e 5) 587 a.C.-70 d.C. - Sobre alguns regimes de signos. Na presente edição foram acrescentados a indicação das páginas da edição original francesa, índice onomástico, índice das matérias e uma bibliografia de Deleuze e Guattari.

Sequência às teses de O anti-Édipo, contendo todos os componentes de um tratado de filosofia clássica - ontologia, física, lógica, psicologia, moral, política e estética. A obra é organizada em quinze "platôs", que podem ser lidos de forma independente. O volume 4 inclui os platôs 10) 1730 - Devir-intenso, devir-animal, devir-imperceptível...; e 11) 1837 - Acerca do ritornelo. Na presente edição foram acrescentados a indicação das páginas da edição original francesa, índice onomástico, índice das matérias e uma bibliografia de Deleuze e Guattari.

Sequência às teses de O anti-Édipo, contendo todos os componentes de um tratado de filosofia clássica - ontologia, física, lógica, psicologia, moral, política e estética. A obra é organizada em quinze "platôs", que podem ser lidos de forma independente. O volume 5 inclui os platôs 12) 1227 - Tratado de nomadologia: a máquina de guerra; 13) 7.000 a.C. - Aparelho de captura; 14) 1440 - O liso e o estriado; e 15) Conclusão: Regras concretas e máquinas abstratas. Na presente edição foram acrescentados a indicação das páginas da edição original francesa, índice onomástico, índice das matérias e uma bibliografia de Deleuze e Guattari.

Não são muitos os estudos brasileiros que tentam fazer um acompanhamento sistemático da formação e da evolução do pensamento psicológico. É o que Anatol Rosenfeld realiza neste excelente trabalho que dá ao leitor interessado uma visão sintética do roteiro percorrido desde os seus primórdios na Grécia até as modernas correntes da gestalt e da psicanálise, bem como da psicologia social e cultural. A sua leitura será certamente esclarecedora e enriquecedora tanto para o público em geral quanto para o especializado.

DO SILÊNCIO DO LAR AO SILÊNCIO ESCOLAR é a interpretação crítica e analítica de uma pesquisa feita pela professora Eliane Cavalleiro sobre a discriminação das crianças negras em sala de aula. Os resultados são chocantes e mostram inúmeras situações de preconceito racial ocorridas durante as aulas. Esse livro é um primeiro e importante passo para que o Brasil rompa o silêncio em torno do racismo e comece a lutar para eliminá-lo de vez do sistema educacional.

Na trilogia Apego e Perda, o autor explora as consequências, para a teoria psicanalítica, especialmente para a teoria das relações objetais, da perda temporária ou permanente da figura materna. Em 'Separação' o autor indaga por que a separação involuntária de uma figura de apego provoca ansiedade e quais as suas implicações para o desenvolvimento da personalidade. Chega à conclusão de que o medo é provocado, na maior parte das vezes, por situações que, intrinsecamente danosas, servem como indicadores de um maior perigo. Em algumas dessas situações, que incluem a separação de uma figura de apego, há uma forte tendência, geneticamente determinada, para reagir com medo.

Conjunto de textos de pesquisadores que discutem alguns dos temas mais importantes da fenomenologia, a partir dos fundamentos de Husserl e sua influência em diversas correntes da filosofia contemporânea, principalmente a ontologia de Martin Heidegger e a fenomenologia da existência de Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

O Teste do Desenho como Instrumento de Diagnóstico da Personalidade - Envolve a técnica de aplicação do teste do desenho - House, Tree, Person (HTP) - de John Buck e formas sistematizadas de interpretação do desenho, possibilitando um pronto diagnóstico da personalidade do testado.

A presente edição em português dos 'Estudos sobre a personalidade autoritária', de Theodor W. Adorno, é resultado de uma seleção de textos da obra original de quase mil páginas intitulada 'The Authoritarian Personality', escrita por Adorno, Levinson, Sanford e Frenkel-Brunswik e publicada em 1950 nos Estados Unidos. Os textos que compõem o presente livro debatem como, em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, o fascismo não era um episódio isolado, mas estava presente de forma latente em amostras da população norte-americana da época. Sua base de argumentação procura expor como o autoritarismo mantém relações profundas com o “clima cultural geral” do modo capitalista de organização socioeconômica – o que preserva a atualidade dessa investigação.

Formar-se en psicología busca que diversas personas, tanto las que hacen parte del campo de la psicología como las de otras áreas, puedan dialogar con autores que han hecho contribuciones históricas en términos epistemológicos, teóricos, metodológicos y de formación de varias generaciones de psicólogos. En este sentido, bien puede decirse que este es un libro-homenaje a los maestros de la disciplina. El tema central del libro es la formación en psicología a partir de cuatro ejes temáticos: la trayectoria formativa del entrevistado; la comprensión del estado actual de la formación en el campo; los aspectos y procesos nucleares de dicha formación; y las perspectivas de la disciplina y de la formación en ella.

Vol. 1 – O campo do signo, 1945-1966 - Vol. 2 – O canto do cisne, de 1967 a nossos dias. Esta viagem fascinante ao coração do estruturalismo permite seguir as jornadas intelectuais de seus grandes pensadores: de Claude Lévi-Strauss e Roman Jakobson a Michel Foucault, de Louis Althusser e Georges Dumézil a Roland Barthes, passando por Jacques Lacan e Jacques Derrida. O historiador François Dosse reconstitui as questões teóricas, institucionais e existenciais do estruturalismo e as organiza em dois grandes períodos distintos: o de sua ascensão em 1945, até seu apogeu no ano de 1966, objeto do primeiro volume, e o de seu declínio, a partir de 1967, tema deste segundo volume. Desse modo, Dosse oferece ao leitor um guia intelectual útil para identificar a extraordinária abundância pluridisciplinar daqueles anos e para compreender, além dos impasses do programa estruturalista, a influência que esse pensamento continua a desempenhar no processo de recomposição das ciências humanas e sociais contemporâneas.

Análise original do importante psicanalista Markos Zafiropoulos sobre a proximidade de Lacan e as ciências sociais. Jacques Lacan e Claude Lévi-Strauss frequentemente são citados em análises sobre o pensamento estruturalista francês. Neste importante estudo, o psicanalista grego Markos Zafiropoulos vai além e mostra que importantes conceitos lacanianos – como o retorno a Freud, Nome-do-Pai, entre outros – só puderam ser elaborados a partir da leitura que o psicanalista francês fez de Lévi-Strauss. Muito mais do que um estudo acadêmico das relações entre esses dois intelectuais, este é também uma excelente introdução ao trabalho de Lacan, analisando com detalhes e lucidez os principais conceitos de seu trabalho na década de 1950. Sobre o livro, o psicanalista Joel Birman, afirma: “É preciso reconhecer a originalidade dessa leitura teórica de Lacan, pois até então os estudos sobre sua obra eram centrados na incorporação que fizera da linguística (Saussure e Jakobson) e da filosofia (Hegel e Heidegger). Dessa maneira, Zafiropoulos empreende uma renovação no âmbito da tradição lacaniana, delineando o campo para a interlocução da psicanálise com as ciências sociais, numa obra sólida, bem argumentada e sistematizada, além de oferecer para o campo psicanalítico outra possibilidade de leitura para o autor que, inequivocamente, subverteu a psicanálise desde os anos 1950. Enfim Lacan foi revisitado, com outros olhos e ouvidos, neste livro inovador.”

A Obra de Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari, também conhecida por "Esquizoanálise", tem sido considerada com uma das mais importantes da segunda metade do século XX. Constituída por cerca de quarenta livros, é de um incalculável valor para intelectuais, especialistas de todos os ramos do saber e, muito particularmente, para todos os agentes sociais. A densidade, o brilhantismo e a erudição tornam difícil a leitura de tais textos - é por isso que a presente Introdução à Esquizoanálise pode ser de grande ajuda para os que se aproximam desse estudo pela primeira vez. O autor, Gregorio F. Baremblitt, um dos introdutores da Esquizoanálise na América Latina há três décadas, tem-se empenhado em produzir uma escrita claramente pedagógica, destinada a estimular nos leitores iniciantes o interesse e o acesso à citada obra.

Segundo a etimologia, a fenomenologia é o estudo ou a ciência do fênomeno. Como tudo o que aparece é fenômeno, o domínio da fenomenologia é praticamente ilimitado e não poderíamos, confiná-la numa ciência particular.

A sensação de pertencer a duas culturas ao mesmo tempo é o tema de 'O homem desenraizado', no qual Tzvetan Todorov reflete sobre a Bulgária, país onde cresceu, a França, país do qual ele se sente cidadão, e ainda sobre os Estados Unidos, que visita anualmente há três décadas e onde não consegue se sentir mais que visitante. Em um balanço autobiográfico crítico, o autor acerta as contas com seu passado e faz um diagnóstico da democracia e de seus males. Todorov mostra que o homem arrancado de seu meio aprende a não confundir o real com o ideal, o cultural com o natural, e, superando o ressentimento pela hostilidade de seus anfitriões, descobre a tolerância, ao mesmo tempo que deflagra neles o processo de 'estranhar-se' e a compreensão de que 'somos todos híbridos'.

A natureza humana é fascinante. Como a mente humana evoluiu? Por que temos as nossas faculdades mentais? Por que somos como somos? Este livro examina a mente e o comportamento humano através da moderna abordagem evolucionista. Este manual fornece aos universitários das áreas de Humanas e Biológicas, bem como aos demais leitores, os conceitos e as descobertas da Psicologia Evolucionista abrangendo uma grande variedade de temas, desde modularidade mental, inteligência, linguagem, decisões e psicopatologias, até preferências românticas, sexo, amor, ciúme, cuidado parental, brincadeira, mentira, cooperação, alimentação e artes. Seu conteúdo está ordenado em cinco seções, começando com Fundamentos da área Psicologia Evolucionista e prosseguindo com Cognição e Emoção, Comportamento Sexual e Reprodutivo, Desenvolvimento e Família e, por fim, Comportamento Social e Cultura. Os capítulos são curtos e utilizam linguagem didática, contendo ilustrações e boxes que auxiliam a compreensão. Este manual é o maior e mais abrangente livro da área no país, escrito em sua maior parte por autores brasileiros, contando também com contribuições significativas de autores internacionais renomados. Esperamos que este livro, como seu antecessor, seja amplamente utilizado no ensino de graduação e pós-graduação e que também informe aos que se interessam pelo tema.