Nagabumi I: Jurus Tanpa Bentuk

Seno Gumira Ajidarma

Pulau Jawa tahun 871. Pendekar tanpa nama yang telah mengundurkan diri dari dunia persilatan sudah 100 tahun umurnya. Pendekar tua itu sudah lupa, siapa saja lawan yang pernah terbunuh olehnya, dan barangkali kini murid atau kerabat lawan-lawannya datang menuntut pembalasan dendam. Bahkan negara menawarkan hadiah besar untuk kematiannya. Pendekar tua itu tahu ajalnya sudah dekat, tetapi ia tidak ingin mati sebelum menuliskan riwayat hidupnya, sebagai cara membongkar rahasia sejarah. Nagabumi, sebuah cerita tempat orang-orang awam menghayati dunia persilatan sebagai dunia dongeng, tentang para pendekar yang telah menjadi terasing dari kehidupan sehari-hari, karena tujuan hidupnya untuk menggapai wibawa naga. Nagabumi adalah drama di antara pendekar-pendekar, pertarungan jurus-jurus maut, yang diwarnai intrik politik kekuasaan, maupun pergulatan pikiran-pikiran besar, dari Nagasena sampai Nagarjuna, dengan selingan kisah asmara mendebarkan, dalam latar kebudayaan dunia abad VIII-IX.

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago. In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian...

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Representations of the Intellectual

Edward W. Said

Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns. Said suggests a recasting of the intellectual's vision to resist the lures of power, money, and specialization. in these powerful pieces, Said eloquently illustrates his arguments by drawing on such writers as Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Regis Debray, Julien Benda, and Adorno, and by discussing current events and celebrated figures in the world of science and politics: Robert Oppenheimer, Henry Kissinger, Dan Quayle, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. Said sees the modern intellectual as an editor, journalist, academic, or political adviser - in other words, a highly specialized professional - who has moved from a position of independence to an alliance with powerful institutional organizations. He concludes that it is the exile-immigrant, the expatriate, and the amateur who must uphold the traditional role of the intellectual as the voice of integrity and courage, able to speak out against those in power. BBC episodes presented by Edward Said: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gmx4c/episodes/player

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago. In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian...

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What's the Point of Political Philosophy?

Jonathan Floyd

Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them – they matter. But why exactly do political philosophy books matter, not to mention the hundreds of articles published every year? In part because they are interesting, but also because they are influential. They are mind-altering and, in turn, world-altering. Political philosophers write their books for the same reason political revolutionaries read them – they change the world. In this short and original book, Jonathan Floyd explains three what political philosophy is, how you can do it, and why you might want to. Accessibly written for those coming to the subject for the first time, it is also a must-read for scholars whose research takes in the nature, methods, and purposes of their field. It is also a must-burn for anyone who dreams of a dumber, thicker, less enlightened world.

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What's the Point of Political Philosophy?

Jonathan Floyd

Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them – they matter. But why exactly do political philosophy books matter, not to mention the hundreds of articles published every year? In part because they are interesting, but also because they are influential. They are mind-altering and, in turn, world-altering. Political philosophers write their books for the same reason political revolutionaries read them – they change the world. In this short and original book, Jonathan Floyd explains three what political philosophy is, how you can do it, and why you might want to. Accessibly written for those coming to the subject for the first time, it is also a must-read for scholars whose research takes in the nature, methods, and purposes of their field. It is also a must-burn for anyone who dreams of a dumber, thicker, less enlightened world.

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