Acts of Religion
6 best books like Acts of Religion (Jacques Derrida): Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, The Human Condition, Critical Theory: Selected Essays, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: Conversation with Jacques Derrida, Democracy
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| ISBN | 0375760520 |
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'
Between...
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0226025985 |
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....
Critical Theory: Selected Essays
| Author | Max Horkheimer |
| ISBN | 0826400833 |
These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current...
| 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 | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0823217558 |
Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence...
| Author | Charles Tilly |
| ISBN | 0521701538 |
Charles Tilly's Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical...
