C-List: General Readings in Social Critique

• Lewis Mumford, Man and the City
• Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Jose Ortega, Revolt of the Masses
• Georg Simmel, The Philosophy of Money; The Conflict in Modern Culture
• Sigmund Freud, Society and Its Discontents
• Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future; The Human Condition
• Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
• Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus; The Rebel
• Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit; Nausea
• Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society
• Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (first essay)
• Francis Fukuyama, The End of History (Hegel)
• Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory
• Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
• Romano Guardini, The End of the Modern World
• Mary Midgley, Science and Salvation; The Myths We Live By
• Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civillization; One-Dimensional Man
• Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics; Screened Out
• Paul Virilio, Administration of Fear
• Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm
• Alain Badiou, Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
• Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
• Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia