Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

6 best books like Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Hayden White): Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, The Antinomies of Realism, Valences of the Dialectic, Considerations on Western Marxism, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

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,...

The Antinomies of Realism

Author	Fredric Jameson
ISBN	1781681333

The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound...

Valences of the Dialectic

Author

Fredric Jameson

After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misrepresented, vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through internal contradiction and conflict, transformed...

Considerations on Western Marxism

Author	Perry Anderson
ISBN	0860917207

This influential Marxist text by the longtime editor of the radical New Left Review studies the development of 20th Century Marxist theory. Anderson defends the political and economic "Classical" tradition of Lenin and Trotsky against the aesthetic and cultural "Western" Marxist tradition of...

Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

Author	Judith Butler
ISBN	0231146108

Judith Butler follows Edward Said’s late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political...