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Include books by the same authorDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault · 333 pages
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Herbert Marcuse · 282 pages
Marriage and Morals
Bertrand Russell · 254 pages
Bertrand Russell on fatherhood, Christian ethics, romantic love, feminism, sex education, love, marriage, prostitution, trial marriage, family, divorce, eugenics, population control and sexuality.
The Sane Society
Erich Fromm · 370 pages
Fromm offers a complete and systematic exploration of his "humanistic psychoanalysis." In so doing, he counters the profound pessimism for our future that Freud expressed and sets forth the goals of a society in which the emphasis is on each person and on the social measures designed to further function as a responsible individual.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Jurgen Habermas · 314 pages
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opini
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels · 216 pages
Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist
George Herbert Mead · 448 pages
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno · 192 pages
The Culture Industry
Theodor W. Adorno · 194 pages
"The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodifie
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
Jean Baudrillard · 224 pages
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Emile Durkheim · 416 pages
The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation
Max Weber · 138 pages
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
Shulamith Firestone · 274 pages
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution is a 1970 book by Shulamith Firestone. A feminist classic, it has been called the clearest and boldest presentation of radical feminism.
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 340 pages
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox th
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Gustave Le Bon · 208 pages
"Gustave LeBon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scientific books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, LeBon analyzes the nature of crowds and their role in political movements. He presents crowd behavior as a problem of science and power, a natural phenomenon with practical implications. Originally published in 1895, LeBon's book was the fi
De la démocratie en Amérique
Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont · 436 pages
The Craftsman
Richard Sennett · 331 pages
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, th
The Road to Character
David Brooks · 320 pages
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deep
The Practice of Everyday Life
Michel de Certeau · 229 pages
Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical li
What's Wrong With the World
G.K. Chesterton · 176 pages
I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning. And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it)
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari