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| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Yancy, George | Philosophy in Multiple Voices | 9781461640851 | Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through both lived embodiment and situational history. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The Conduct of Life | ||
| Kaufmann, Walter | Nietzsche | 9781400849222 | This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | The Antichrist | 9781304670069 | |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | The Birth of Tragedy | 058536124X | Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872), was a radical reinterpretation of Greek art and culture from a Schopenhaurian and Wagnerian standpoint. |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Ecce Homo | 0875862837 | Nietzsche was a radical questioner who often wrote polemically with deliberate obscurity, intending to perplex, shock, and offend his readers. He attacked the entire metaphysical tradition in Western philosophy, especially Christianity and Christian morality, which he thought had reached its final and most decadent form in modern scientific humanism, with its ideals of liberalism and democracy. |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Human, all too human | 9781776527236 | In Human, All Too Human, Nietzsche explores the triumphs and tragic shortfalls of human nature in an eminently readable series of aphorisms and short vignettes. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Flynn, Thomas | Existentialism | ||
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis | 9780812985191 | "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Baudrillard, Jean | The Consumer Society | 9781848608931 | Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book still makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. |
| Cohen, G.A. | Why Not Socialism? | 9781400830633 | Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times | 9781775568735 | Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. |
| Engels, Friedrich | The Condition of the Working Class | ||
| Engels, Friedrich | Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State | ||
| Engels, Friedrich | Socialism: Utopian or Scientific | ||
| Marx, Karl | Capital, Vol. 1 | ||
| Marx, Karl | The Communist Manifesto | "The text of this edition is that of the English edition of 1888, checked with the German editions of 1848, 1872, 1883 and 1890, as printed in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, vol. 6 (London 1976)." |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Engels, Friedrich | The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State | ||
| Greer, Germaine | The Female Eunuch | 9780061972805 | The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | ||
| Young, Iris Marion | On Female Body Experience | ||
| Zack, Naomi | Inclusive Feminism | 9781461638193 | In Inclusisve Feminism , Naomi Zack provides a universal, relational definition of women, critically engages both Anglo and French feminists and shows how women can become a united historical force, with the political goal of ruling in place of men. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Serano, Julia | Whipping Girl | 9780786747917 | A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | 9780307743855 | Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. |
| Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo | Racism Without Racists | 9781442220560 | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for--and ultimately justify--racial inequalities. |
| DuBois, W.E.B. | The Souls of Black Folk | 9781625586803 | This hard hitting masterpiece is part essays, part memoir, and part fiction. More than any other book it brought home just how racist and unjust America could be, and demanded that African Americans be granted access to education and equality. |
| Yancy, George | White on White/Black on Black | 9780742568730 | White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. |