Philosophy

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  On Ideology

  by Louis Althusser
  The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society.
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  Between Existentialism and Marxism

  by Jean-Paul Sartre
  A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism.
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  The Perfect Crime

  by Jean Baudrillard
  Baudrillard investigates the murder of reality—“the most important event of modern history.”
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  Spinoza and Politics

  by Étienne Balibar and Warren Montag
  A rich analysis of Spinoza's key works, in the context of his political and ideological associations.

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  A Study on Authority

  by Herbert Marcuse
  The great theorist of radical liberation analyzes the relationship between authority and freedom.

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  Ghostly Demarcations

  Edited by Michael Sprinker
  Major theorists discuss the renowned philosopher Jacques Derrida's most political and controversial work.
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  For They Know Not What They Do

  by Slavoj Žižek
  The eminent philosopher explodes the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics and culture.
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  A Realist Theory of Science

  by Roy Bhaskar
  The foundational text for the philosophical movement of critical realism.

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  Open Sky

  by Paul Virilio
  A passionate critique of information technology and the global media.
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  Infancy and History

  by Giorgio Agamben
  A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.

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  Politics and History

  by Louis Althusser
  Enlightenment advances towards a science of politics, and Marx's relationship to Hegel.
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  Fragments

  by Jean Baudrillard
  Disturbing and vivid meditations on the meanings of objects and sensations.

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  Logics of Disintegration

  by Peter Dews
  A major work of Marxist theory—rigorous, clear-minded and well-researched.

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  Late Marxism

  by Fredric Jameson
  A lively and lucid introduction to the work of Theodor Adorno.

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  Emancipation(s)

  by Ernesto Laclau
  Laclau argues that the changes of the late twentieth century have altered Enlightenment notions of emancipation.
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  On the Shores of Politics

  by Jacques Rancière
  Returning politics to its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent.

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