Nature | Penguin Great Ideas

Nature | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Originally published

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death and being nonbinary

With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman

On Women offers us ''the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States

From mega-factory floors

but also something much more personal: talismans

Bringing together his thoughts on reading and talking and silence in the Cultural Revolution

" and "Stranger in the Village

to a treatise on ‘football sadness’

We Are Free to Change the World calls on each of us to think our way

This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time

grappling with sociology