The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
6 best books like The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 (Martin Jay): The Mandarins, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You, Civilization and Its Discontents, Fade, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
| ISBN | 0007203942 |
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler -- and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects...
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
| Author | Eli Pariser |
| ISBN | 1594203008 |
An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling - and limiting - the information we consume.
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries...
Civilization and Its Discontents
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0393301583 |
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0385731345 |
IT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can “fade.” First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his “gift” soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act.
“Imagine what might happen if Holden...
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 1844670511 |
Perhaps the great book of the oncoming Trump era. Adorno's depth of observation, critical analysis, and disgust at late-capitalist culture reads as a cry from the least false oracles of Delphi. His intellect burns ultra-bright, spouts of water on a magnesium fire. Aphorism as razor to drain the infection,...
| 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,...
