Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory
6 best books like Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory (Moishe Postone): Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, These Truths: A History of the United States
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,...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled...
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...
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
| Author | Saidiya V. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0195089847 |
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments...
These Truths: A History of the United States
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 0393357422 |
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three...
