The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82

6 best books like The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82 (Michel Foucault): Politics, Foucault, Philosophical Hermeneutics, The Life of the Mind, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Politics

Author	Aristotle
ISBN	0486414248

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...

Foucault

Author	Gilles Deleuze
ISBN	0816616752

We must take quite literally the idea that man is a face drawn in the sand between two tides: he is a composition appearing between two others, a classical past that never knew him, and a future that will no longer know him.

I remain leery of those who profess to "know" Foucault, all the epistemological...

Philosophical Hermeneutics

Author	Hans-Georg Gadamer
ISBN	0520034759

Gadamer gets at least three stars for everything, just because he manages to be a serious student of German philosophy, but his sentences are comprehensible on first reading 80 to 90 percent of the time. That makes... one serious student of German philosophy, who is also an original thinker in his/her...

The Life of the Mind

Author	Hannah Arendt
ISBN	0156519925

A Really Unexpected Revelation

Hannah Arendt, most famous for her contention concerning the banality of evil in her writing about the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, died in 1975. Remarkably, however, she provides an explanation in her Life of the Mind for the social as well as political...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521344

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Author	Walter Benjamin
ISBN	0805202412

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...