Philosophy

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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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  The Philosophy of Marx

  by Étienne Balibar
  The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need.

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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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  Strategy of Deception

  by Paul Virilio
  A trenchant critique of new techniques of waging war, and its reduction to images on a screen. 

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  The Indivisible Remainder

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Confronts Schelling with Hegel, and illuminates popular culture and modern subjectivity.
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  Political Descartes

  by Antonio Negri
  "One of the most significant figures of current political thought."—New Statesman

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  The Absence of Myths

  by Georges Bataille
  One of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, these essays comprise George Bataille's most incisive study of surrealism.

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  Out of This World

  by Peter Hallward
  A controversial critique of Deleuze as a spiritual and extra-worldly philosopher.