Books like Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid

به تنهایی در درازنای یک خیابان تنها گام برداشتن، جزئی ازطبیعت فیلسوف است. والتر بنیامین، خیابان یک‌طرفه را می‌پیماید و در این حرکت استعاری، با چاقوی ا

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilli

Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary critici

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most i

The One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Herbert MarcuseThe One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Ad

Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tac

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of languag

All hitherto existing models of perception are false. From the outset empiricism would do violence by mis-describing its most basic datum, the act of

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 twenti

This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights i

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of cont

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the

Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, soci

Image-Music-Text brings together major essays by Roland Barthes on the structural analysis of narrative and on issues in literary theory, on the semio

The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmod