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Passwords by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Classic Editions
The quintessential thinker of postmodernism simplifies his key concepts for the lay person.
Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
The famous postmodernist thinker turns detective to investigate the murder of reality.
Screened Out: Radical Thinkers: Radical Thinkers by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deser ...Show more
Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings by Louis Althusser
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Louis Althusser enjoyed virtually unrivalled status as the foremost living Marxist philosopher. Today, he is remembered as the scourge and severest critic of 'humanist' or Hegelian Marxism, as the proponent of rigorously scientific socialism, and as the theorist who posit ...Show more
Tactics and ethics: 1919-1929 by Georg Lukacs
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
"Tactics and Ethics" collects Georg Lukacs' articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Including his famed essay on parliamentarianism - which earned Lukacs the respectful yet severe criti ...Show more
The Fiery Brook: Selected Writings by Ludwig Feuerbach
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
Feuerbach's departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has long been acknowledged as the influence for much of Marx's early writings. Indeed, a great amount of the young Marx must remain unintelligible without refer ...Show more
The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Ser.
The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated ...Show more
The Last Resistance by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a unique form of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious of nat ...Show more
The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Ser. | Reading Level: good
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Radical Thinkers
Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playw ...Show more
The Philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers
In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an unsurpassed introduction to Marx and his followers. Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, it examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context - including the concepts of class struggle, ...Show more
The Spirit of Terrorism by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Ser.
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the ...Show more