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    The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World

    Mark Edmundson

    How Freud’s concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age

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    Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    Sigmund Freud

    A collection of some of Freud’s most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and…

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    Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education

    Mark Edmundson

    In this collection of essays, some of which have run in Harper’s and The New York Times, one of the country’s great professors reminds readers that there is more to…

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    Teacher

    Mark Edmundson

    In this testament to the magic of inspired teaching, an award-winning scholar offers a heartfelt tribute to his high school philosophy teacher, a man who was able to transform school-hating…

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    The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism

    Mark Edmundson

    When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city’s 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. This book traces Hitler and Freud’s…

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    Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters

    Mark Edmundson

    From one of America’s great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?–an inspiring exploration of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.

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    Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

    Mark Edmundson

    Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as feudal…

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    Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic

    Mark Edmundson

    In this assessment of American culture on the eve of the millennium, Mark Edmundson asks why we’re determined to be haunted, courting the Gothic at every turn–and, at the same…

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    Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals

    Mark Edmundson

    In a culture of the Self that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, we spare little thought for the great ideals courage, contemplation, and compassion that once gave life…

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    Towards Reading Freud: Self-creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud

    Mark Edmundson

    Presents the psychoanalyst’s therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary…

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    Why Read?

    Mark Edmundson (University of Virginia)

    In this important book reconceiving the value and promise of reading, acclaimed author Edmundson dramatizes what the recent identity crisis of the humanities has effectively obscured: that reading can change…

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    The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll

    Mark Edmundson (University of Virginia)

    After graduating from college in 1974, Edmundson leaves his small Vermont campus with no plans for the future, though he knows it involves rock & roll and America’s high court…

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    Literature against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry

    Mark Edmundson (University of Virginia)

    This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory has led to an intellectual sterility which ignores the actual power and scope of literature. The book demands to be…

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    The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings

    The question why should I obey the law? introduces a puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. This work contains essays from leading legal and political philosophers, all directly…

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    The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings

    The question why should I obey the law? introduces a puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. This work contains essays from leading legal and political philosophers, all directly…

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    Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

    Mario Vargas Llosa, Katherine C. Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark Edmundson, James Wolcott, Elliot Ackerman, Moshe Halbertal, Noga Arikha

    Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time.

    In this issue of Liberties: Katherine C. Epstein…

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