The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
10 best books like The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (Fredric Jameson): Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Poetics, The Loser, Landscapes: John Berger on Art, Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought, Eight Theories of Religion, For Marx, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, The Life of the Mind, The Origins of Postmodernity
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679752552 |
This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140446362 |
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...
| Author | Thomas Bernhard |
| ISBN | 1400077540 |
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.
One of Bernhard's most...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 1784785873 |
Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves.
“Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and...
| Author | György Lukács |
| ISBN | 1859841740 |
Written in part as an elegy upon Lenin's decease, and in part as insurance against author's own impending liquidation--for his magnum opus, History and Class Consciousness, had been "condemned by Soviet authorities in 1924 at the fifth World Congress of the Comintern" (Jay, Marxism & Totality,...
| Author | Daniel L. Pals |
| ISBN | 0195165705 |
Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society? Revised and updated in...
A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought.
This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which...
| 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 | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0156519925 |
A Really Unexpected Revelation
Hannah Arendt, most famous for her contention concerning the banality of evil in her writing about the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, died in 1975. Remarkably, however, she provides an explanation in her Life of the Mind for the social as well as political...
| Author | Perry Anderson |
| ISBN | 1859842224 |
A history of the postmodern, and the role of Fredric Jameson in shaping it.
Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they serve? These are the questions addressed in The Origins of Postmodernity....
| Author | Louis Althusser |
| ISBN | 1859841643 |
Together with Louis Althusser’s book For Marx, Reading Capital represents one of the foundational texts of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory. Presided over by the magnetic and intellectually coruscating figure of Althusser,...
