A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari
8 best books like A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (Brian Massumi): Course in General Linguistics, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Ways of Seeing, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
Course in General Linguistics
| Author | Ferdinand de Saussure |
| ISBN | 0812690230 |
The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0140135154 |
John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...
| Author | Alain Badiou |
| ISBN | 0816631409 |
The works of Gilles Deleuze -- on cinema, literature, painting, and philosophy -- have made him one of the most widely read thinkers of his generation. This compact critical volume is not only a powerful reappraisal of Deleuze's thought, but also the first major work by Alain Badiou available in English....
| Author | Georges Bataille |
| ISBN | 0942299213 |
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. In the second and third volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, Bataille explores...
| Author | Alexandre Kojève |
| ISBN | 0801492033 |
"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century--a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation and to the grasp of the most modern perspective on the eternal questions of philosophy."--Allan...
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 0804736332 |
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...
| Author | Guy Debord |
| ISBN | 1859841694 |
A must read. Although it enhances your understanding to read
Society of the Spectacle
first, it's not absolutely necessary. SotS is one of the most politically astute grand visions of the social order ever written. Revolutionary. Profound. Enlightening. (And admittedly somewhat difficult in...
