The Antinomies of Realism
8 best books like The Antinomies of Realism (Fredric Jameson): Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, The Theory of the Novel
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0486434141 |
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry...
Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521599628 |
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar...
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679725229 |
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time,...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
| Author | Hayden White |
| ISBN | 0801841151 |
Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to...
| Author | Hayden White |
| ISBN | 0801827418 |
"Tropics of Discourse" develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number...
In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation might be.
In...
| Author | György Lukács |
| ISBN | 0262620278 |
Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is...
