Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics

7 best books like Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (Jacques Rancière): The Medium is the Massage, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, The Concept of the Political, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, German Ideology, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, Forget Foucault

The Medium is the Massage

Author	Marshall McLuhan
ISBN	1584230703

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Author	Herbert Marcuse
ISBN	0807015555

"When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination--commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are to be subjected" (125)

"In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by the reality...

The Concept of the Political

Author	Carl Schmitt
ISBN	0226738868

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state. This edition of the 1932 work includes the translator's introduction...

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics

Author	Ernesto Laclau
ISBN	1859843301

Since its original publication in 1985, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the...

German Ideology

Author	Karl Marx
ISBN	0717803015

2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...

Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

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...

Forget Foucault

Author	Jean Baudrillard
ISBN	1584350415

In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History...