Eurocentrism
10 best books like Eurocentrism (Samir Amin): The Wretched of the Earth, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Zong!, Ethics, Civilization and Its Discontents, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, From a Crooked Rib, A Universal History of Iniquity
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
| Author | M. NourbeSe Philip |
| ISBN | 0819568767 |
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre of these...
| Author | Baruch Spinoza |
| ISBN | 0140435719 |
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines...
Civilization and Its Discontents
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0393301583 |
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
| ISBN | 0679721754 |
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.
Illustrations
Preface
Overture
The centenarian revolution
An economy changes gear
The age of empire
The...
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
| Author | Silvia Federici |
| ISBN | 1570270597 |
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...
| Author | Nuruddin Farah |
| ISBN | 0143037269 |
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in...
A Universal History of Iniquity
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0142437891 |
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal,...
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
| Author | Martin Bernal |
| ISBN | 0813512778 |
Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that Western civilization was born on the so-called Dark Continent? For almost two centuries, Western...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374522073 |
Someone here on Good Reads recommended I read this, can't remember who now to thank them...
My daughter is doing her honours thesis on cute Japanese animal advertisements for eating meat and how these seem to skate incredibly close to what we in the West might consider to be food taboos. As part...
