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A Grammar of the Multitude (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
Paolo Virno
Semiotext(e), 2004
Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories--such as "the people"--that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of "multitude," elaborated by Spinoza and for the most part left fallow since the seventeenth century, is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept ...
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The Concept of the Political
Carl Schmitt
University Of Chicago Press, 1996
The Political as Friend-Enemy Distinction.
+ great quality
+ One of the best books on political theory ever written
+ Great book
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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
Giorgio Agamben
Zone Books, 2002
Haunting, Captivating, Unspeakable
+ Difficult to read, but worth it
I read this book after having read Agamben's big book "Homo Sacer." I found the analysis of bare life (homo sacer) in that book to be so fascinating that I picked up "Remnants," to see where else Agamben might go. This book is some of the most compelling theory I have read to date. The book has ...
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Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume III
Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley, ...
New Press, 2001
Not Just for Foucault Fanatics
This collection of Foucault's essays, lectures, interviews, and editorials, offers even the casual reader of Foucault welcome insights into his methods, his intellectual biography and the development of his own methods. Most valuable perhaps are interviews collected from various magazines where he ...
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
Vintage, 1990
Hard...but worth it.
+ An Introduction
+ Foucault
+ Somewhat wordy, but deserves consideration
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Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668
Thomas Hobbes
Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1994
Excellent edition
+ The First Modern Political Philosopher
+ Greatest Work of Philosophy in English
+ Essay; Absolute Sovereignty can not offer Perpetual Peace
+ Say yes to British philosophy!
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
Schocken, 1969
Just a quick note
+ Of Benjamin, Dwarfs and Angels
+ Clarity and Brilliance
+ Brilliance
+ Indispensable reading
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A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem
Zone Books, 2000
Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) was one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians that there could be no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical ...
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Means Without End: Notes on Politics (Theory Out of Bounds)
Giorgio Agamben
University of Minnesota Press, 2000
on the way to...
This collection of occasional pieces from the nineteen-nineties can seem slight and derivative by comparison to Agamben's major works of the same decade, coming on the heels of Homo sacer, The Coming Community, The Man Without Content, and The Remaining Time. Means without ends is supercilious ...
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"Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976 (Lectures at the College de France)
Michel Foucault
Picador, 2003
Offering an unusually insightful perspective
+ Society Must be Defended
+ Indispensable Addition to Foucault's Oeuvre
Capably and collaboratively edited by Mauro Bertani and Allesandro Fontana, "Society Must Be Defended" is a collection of French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault's eleven lectures given at the College de France from 1975 to 1976, and which are ably translated into English for an American ...
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault
Vintage, 1988
A Great Choice for the First-Time Foucault Reader
+ "Imagination is not madness."
+ Defining madness is a subjective thing...
+ exorcised mental clutter and fantasy that deluded my mind!
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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 2)
Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow, ...
New Press, 1999
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+ For nerds and for new comers
Michel Foucault , i think should be read by anyone read and liked Nietzsche.
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Birth of the Clinic, The: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Michel Foucault
Vintage, 1994
Sound historical interpretation, hold the postmodernism
+ About freedom
+ Read Kuhn first, then Foucault
+ Structural analysis of the origins of clinical medicine
+ A book with special insight-- one that you cannot miss
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The Open: Man and Animal
Giorgio Agamben
Stanford University Press, 2003
erudition as art as thought as action
+ Great book
A magisterial meditation on the question of the "human" -- used as an adjective. This short book is Agamben's 'Duino Elegies': thalassically poetic and swirling with thought that hovers, indifferent to the gravity of common sense. The title refers to Heidegger's term for the possibility of Dasein ...
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Giorgio Agamben
Stanford University Press, 1998
Homo Sacer is a must read.
+ The Body = The Nation
+ Political Ontology and Bio-Politics
Agamben's best known work lives up to the hype. One of the most powerful aspects of this book is its shocking predictions about the world to come. Published many years before the initiation of the war on terror, Agamben signals the beginning the of a style of governance built on permanent ...
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