For Marx
10 best books like For Marx (Louis Althusser): The Medium is the Massage, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, The Limits to Capital, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, Ways of Seeing, Estado y revolución, German Ideology, The Philosophy of Marx
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...
| Author | Friedrich Engels |
| ISBN | 0873485793 |
In my opinion, this is a better introduction to Marxism than the Communist Manifesto. The first chapter focuses on utopian socialist who tried to make reforms but ran up against roadblocks of the bourgeoisie, and since it was based on an unscientific view, it lead to a "mish-mash of critical statements,...
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...
| Author | David Harvey |
| ISBN | 1844670953 |
The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this new edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today.
In his analyses of ‘fictitious capital’...
| Author | György Lukács |
| ISBN | 0262620200 |
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality,...
| 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...
| 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...
If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...
| 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...
| Author | Étienne Balibar |
| ISBN | 1844671879 |
The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need: this special edition includes pedagogical material such as information boxes, timelines and further reading.
An excellent introduction to Marx's thought from a major French philosopher. Providing a lucid, succinct, and accessible...
| 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 | Jacques Rancière |
| ISBN | 1847064450 |
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics.
In this fascinating collection, Rancière...
| Author | Friedrich Engels |
| ISBN | 1417994673 |
A very concise and easy-to-read guide for understanding the theory of dialectical materialism. Hegel will no longer seem that intimidating.
I think it was Trotsky who observed that a good approach towards understanding a theory - even a complicated mathematical theory - is to analyze its...
| Author | Robert Frank |
| ISBN | 3931141802 |
Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...
