The Human Condition
By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong
3.93
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic,… read more
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"Today nothing is more modern than the onslaught against the political. American financiers, industrial technicians, Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite in demanding tha…"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the …"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
2. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
3. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more
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- history
- theory
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- nonfiction
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"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
4. The Ethics of Ambiguity
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i… read more
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- theory
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5. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- philosophy
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6. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
7. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
8. The Human Condition
By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more
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- sociology
9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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10. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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11. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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12. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
By: Michel Foucault , Graham Burchell , Michel Senellart , None
3.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which… read more
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13. Postscript on the Societies of Control
By: Gilles Deleuze
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
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14. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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15. Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have reject… read more
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16. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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17. Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace
By: None
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1989 Philosopher, mother, and feminist Sara Ruddick exami… read more
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18. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more
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19. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
20. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
By: Jonathan Crary
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleepexplores some of the ruinous consequences of the expandi… read more
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21. Critique of Judgment
By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more
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