Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
10 best books like Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Jacques Derrida): The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion, The Time That Remains: A Commentary On The Letter To The Romans, Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Critical Theory: Selected Essays, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978, The Century
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0521424461 |
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract.The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau...
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
| Author | Paul De Man |
| ISBN | 0300028458 |
This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the...
| Author | Georges Bataille |
| ISBN | 0942299213 |
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. In the second and third volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, Bataille explores...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0253211123 |
"Caputo's book is riveting.... A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis.... There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work." --Edith Wyschogrod
"No one interested...
| Author | Giorgio Agamben |
| ISBN | 0804743827 |
In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic"...
| Author | Jürgen Habermas |
| ISBN | 0226066665 |
The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act...
| Author | Jürgen Habermas |
| ISBN | 0262581183 |
This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. "Discourse ethics" attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical...
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 | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 1403986525 |
Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the Collège de France between January and April, 1978. Taking as his starting point the notion of 'bio-power', introduced both in his 1976 course Society Must be Defended and in the first...
| Author | Alain Badiou |
| ISBN | 0745636322 |
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction.
It is not Badiou's wish to plead for...
| 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 | Slavoj Žižek |
| ISBN | 1859840558 |
Not so long ago, the term “ideology” was in considerable disrepute. Its use had become associated with a claim to know a truth beyond ideology, a radically unfashionable position. What then explains the sudden revival of interest in grappling with the questions that “ideology” poses to social...
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0231059833 |
Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze...
| Author | Emmanuel Levinas |
| ISBN | 0820702994 |
Otherwise than being or beyond essence is a sequel to Levinas's totality and infinity. An immensely challenging and sophisticated work, it is generally considered Levinas's most important contribution to the contemporary debate surrounding the closure of metaphysical discourse, much commented...
| Author | Henri Lefebvre |
| ISBN | 0826472990 |
Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling...
| Author | Louis Althusser |
| ISBN | 1859847110 |
This short book is an excellent production by the French Structural Marxist Louis Althusser. Written in a cool, clear style, Althusser presents a picture of Machiavelli in contradiction to the two major streams of interpretation - though, by his own admission, it is not strictly an interpretation....
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour
| Author | Michel Serres |
| ISBN | 0472065483 |
Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist...
| Author | Brian Massumi |
| ISBN | 0822328976 |
Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual...
