Philosophy

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  In Defense of Lost Causes

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Acclaimed, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for universal values.

  1 post

  1 discussion

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  First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

  by Slavoj Žižek
  From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.

  9 posts

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  Hatred of Democracy

  by Jacques Rancière
  A vehement defense of the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression.

  1 post

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  Pocket Pantheon

  by Alain Badiou
  A journey through twentieth-century philosophy with the titan of French thought.

  4 posts

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  Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity

  by Simon Critchley
  Powerful and provocative, explores the relation of ethical experience to politics.

  2 posts

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  Hegel Contra Sociology

  by Gillian Rose
  A radical new assessment of Hegel revealing the problems and limitations of sociological method.

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  Panegyric

  by Guy Debord
  An audacious autobiography by the founding figure of the Situationist International.

  2 posts

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  Reading Capital

  by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar
  A landmark of French thought, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations.

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  The Cultural Turn

  by Fredric Jameson
  An accessible introduction to the key writings on postmodernism by the influential Marxist critic.
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  The Democratic Paradox

  by Chantal Mouffe
  A new understanding of democracy that acknowledges the inescapable and essential antagonism in its workings.
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  The Transparency of Evil

  by Jean Baudrillard
  Sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture, after the ‘orgy’ of the 1960s.
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  Walter Benjamin

  by Terry Eagleton
  A classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist. 

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  War and Cinema

  by Paul Virilio
  A rich and suggestive analysis of military “ways of seeing”
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  Atheism in Christianity

  by Ernst Bloch
  Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the Bible.

  2 posts

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  Ideologies of Theory

  by Fredric Jameson
  An expanded and updated collection of Jameson's essays.
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  My Teaching

  by Jacques Lacan
  The father of psychoanalytic philosophy's invaluable introduction to his own thought, available in English for the first time.