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Hegel: Three Studies

9 best books like Hegel: Three Studies (Theodor W. Adorno): Black Skin, White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth, Leviathan, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, Last Nights of Paris, Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History

Black Skin, White Masks
AuthorFrantz Fanon
ISBN0802150845
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.

“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
The Wretched of the Earth
AuthorFrantz Fanon
ISBN0802141323
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...
Leviathan
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0140431950
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign...
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
AuthorWalter Benjamin
ISBN0141036192
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
AuthorGyörgy Lukács
ISBN0262620200
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,...
Last Nights of Paris
AuthorPhilippe Soupault
ISBN1878972057
Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), Last Nights of Paris is related to Surrealist novels such as Nadja and Paris Peasant, but also to the American expatriate...
Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
AuthorHerbert Marcuse
It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading...
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
AuthorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
ISBN0521348889
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into...
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
AuthorSusan Buck-Morss
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation.  Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical...
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