The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

7 best books like The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Mikhail Bakhtin): The Medium is the Massage, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Ways of Seeing, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, S/Z: An Essay, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

The Medium is the Massage

Author	Marshall McLuhan
ISBN	1584230703

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Author	Herbert Marcuse
ISBN	0807015555

"When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination--commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are to be subjected" (125)

"In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by the reality...

Ways of Seeing

Author	John Berger
ISBN	0140135154

John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Author	Jean-François Lyotard
ISBN	0816611734

This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our post-modernity. Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when...

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Author

Erich Auerbach

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught...

S/Z: An Essay

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521670

I must be honest this was a re-read for me. Barthes's works were pre-eminent when I was navigating my way through university. So encouraged were we to embrace this 'enfant terrible' that I very nearly wrote my PhD on his ideas (in the end it had to be Poe!). Looking back now though there is no doubt that 'The...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Author	Walter Benjamin
ISBN	0805202412

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...