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A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new intervention, Fredric Jameson--perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity--excavates and explores these notions in a fr ...Show more
Baudrillard: Fragments by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Ser.
Features postmodernity's quintessential theorist with his meditations on the meanings of objects.
Cultural Turn Selected Writings On The Post Modern 1983-1998 by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
Part of "Radical Thinkers" series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers an introduction to the key writings on post modernism.
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers | Reading Level: General Adult
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
For They Know Not What They Do Enjoyment As A Political Factor by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers | Reading Level: good
An analysis of the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics.
Hegemony and socialist strategy: Towards a radical democratic politics by Ernesto Laclau
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, "Heg ...Show more
If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance: Voices of Resistance by Angela Davis
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
"The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jack ...Show more
Impossible Exchange by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
Quintessential thinker of the postmodern on the uniqueness of all things
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform ...Show more
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory by Michele Wallace
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
First published in 1990, Michele Wallace's Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace's considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in p ...Show more
Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic by JAMESON FREDRIC
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the name of an assault on "totalization" and "identity," a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and "post-politics." A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth-century ph ...Show more
Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a p ...Show more