Philosophy

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  Metapolitics

  by Alain Badiou
  Metapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection.

  1 post

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  Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory

  by Ernesto Laclau
  Analysis of the role of ideology in political movements.
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  War Diaries

  by Jean-Paul Sartre
  The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.
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  Ethics of the Real

  by Alenka Zupančič
  Fascinating study of the relationship between the philosopher and the psychoanalyst by major Slovenian scholar.

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  Immanuel Kant

  by Lucien Goldmann
  The classic introductory text to Kant's legacy and philosophy.
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  Introduction to Modernity

  by Henri Lefebvre
  The sociologist and philosopher analyses the dawning of modernity.
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  Politics and the Other Scene

  by Étienne Balibar
  Essays on politics by the pupil of Althusser.

  1 post

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  Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists

  by Louis Althusser
  Collected here are Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from 1965 to 1978.

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  Lives on the Left

  Edited by Francis Mulhern
  Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review.

  3 posts

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  Towards a New Manifesto

  by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
  A fascinating dialogue on a new Communist Manifesto from two giants of twentieth century philosophy.

  4 posts

  3 discussions

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  Anti-Nietzsche

  by Malcolm Bull
  A provocative intellectual assault on the iconic philosopher.

  4 posts

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  The Necessity of Errors

  by John Roberts
  A groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from Plato to Adorno.

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  The Emancipated Spectator

  by Jacques Rancière
  The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking.

  4 posts

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  The Total Art of Stalinism

  by Boris Groys
  "Artists can make a hash of society as completely as the most cynical of politicians."—Boston Globe
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  Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Undermining the liberal-democratic consensus that enables the designation of totalitarianism.

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  Revolution at the Gates

  by V. I. Lenin
  How to reinvent Lenin in the era of “cultural capitalism.”

  2 posts