{"title":"Andrea Cavalletti","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrea Cavalletti's work delves deeply into the intersections of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering a rich exploration of aesthetic values and social paradigms. His writing invites readers to reconsider everyday experiences through a philosophical lens, often challenging conventional understandings of class and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a thoughtful blend of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy and psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, Cavalletti's titles illuminate the subtle dynamics that shape human perception and cultural memory. His books provide a reflective journey into how history and emotion intertwine within societal structures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-immemorial-by-andrea-cavalletti-9781803095295","title":"The Immemorial","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA thought-provoking exploration of the fragility of bourgeois identity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVienna, 1825. News of a sickly, listless boy is making the rounds. In broad daylight, he falls into deep sleep and his personality changes dramatically. While sleeping, he reads, writes, plays cards, challenges his doctors with amusement, and accomplishes the most astonishing of exercises with his eyes closed. A new subject has appeared, a second \"I\" has now supplanted the first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAndrea Cavalletti carefully registers the disquieting appearances of this second \"I\" in the literature and psychology of the past two centuries. In a context dominated by amnesia and somnambulism, hallucinations and wakeful dreams, the bourgeois subject, whose identity seemed so stable, turns out to be inhabited by masks that elude every grasp, at the mercy of a doubling that can no longer be recomposed. Personalities multiply and do battle, as even life and death exchange roles. Ultimately, the identity of the Western subject reveals itself as a shade-like, constitutively double figure, that only lives in its weakness and forgetting, in its losses and distractions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432939438316,"sku":"9781803095295","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803095295.jpg?v=1774766038"},{"product_id":"class-by-andrea-cavalletti-9780857424372","title":"Class","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and under the spell of anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small, that sad figure returns—the hatred of minorities is rekindled and the pied-pipers of the crowd stand triumphant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e, by Andrea Cavalletti, is a striking montage of diverse materials—Marx and Jules Verne, Benjamin and Gabriel Tarde. In it, Cavalletti asks whether the untimely concept of class is once again thinkable. Faced with new pogroms and state racism, he challenges us to imagine a movement that would unsettle and eventually destroy the crowd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602873336044,"sku":"9780857424372","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857424372-class.jpg?v=1778048809"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/andrea-cavalletti.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}