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| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Dussel, Enrique | Philosophy of Liberation | 159244427X | Argentinean philosopher, theologian, and historian Enrique Dussel understands the present international order as divided into the "culture of the center" -- by which he means the ruling elite of Europe, North America, and Russia -- and "the peoples of the periphery" -- by which he means the populations of Latin America, Africa, and part of Asia, and the oppressed classes (including women and children) throughout the world. In 'Philosophy of Liberation,' he presents a profound analysis of the alienation of peripheral peoples resulting from the imperialism of the center for more than five centuries. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Beyond Good and Evil | 9781604593228 | In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of the Christian premises in their consideration of morality. |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Philosophy and Truth | 9781573925327 | Philosophy and Truth offers the first English translation of six unpublished theoretical studies (sometimes referred to as Nietzsche's "Philosopher's Book") written just after the publication of The Birth of Tragedy and simultaneously with Untimely Meditations . |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Twilight of the idols; and , the Anti-Christ | 9780140445145 | Twilight of the Idols, 'a grand declaration of war' on all the prevalent ideas o his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way fro The Anti-Christ, a final assault of institutional Christianity. |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts | 0874515807 | Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Camus, Albert | The Myth of Sisyphus | ||
| Camus, Albert | The Plague | 0679720219 | A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. |
| Fromm, Erich | Escape from Freedom | ||
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial | ||
| Kaufmann, Walter | Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre | ||
| Kierkegaard, Søren | The Concept of Dread | ||
| Kierkegaard, Søren | 9781400846160 | Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Søren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism and have come to define his contribution to philosophy. | |
| Ortega y Gasset, José | The Revolt of the Masses | 0393310957 | Social upheaval in early twentieth-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset of the "mass man", the phenomenon of mass culture that more than any other factor stamps the character of modern life. |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | Being and Nothingness | ||
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | No Exit | 0679725164 | In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of the drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. |
| Tillich, Paul | The Courage to Be |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Brown, Wendy | Undoing the Demos | 9781935408536 |
Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures. Neoliberal rationality--ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture--remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus . |
| Debord, Guy | The Society of the Spectacle | 0946061122 | From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. |
| Eagleton, Terry | Why Marx Was Right | 9780300169430 | In this book, the author takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism, that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on, he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed | 0805063889 | Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? |
| Fromm, Erich | Marx's Concept of Man | 0804453918 | |
| Marcuse, Herbert | One-Dimensional Man | 0807014176 | Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. |
| McNamee, Stephen | The Meritocracy Myth | 9781442219816 | The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy--that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The third edition has been revised and streamlined, with fresh examples and updated statistical information throughout. |
| Reiman, Jeffrey | The Rich Get Richer and the Poorer Get Prison | 0205461727 | The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, eighth edition, examines the premise that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish: from the definition of what constitutes a crime through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing. |
| Schweickart, David | After Capitalism | 0742512991 | In After Capitalism, David Schweickart moves beyond the familiar arguments against globalizing capitalism to contribute something absolutely necessary and long overdue--a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative to capitalism. |
| Schweickart, David | Against Capitalism | 0813331137 | This book argues that Economic Democracy, a competitive economy of democratically run enterprises that replaces capitalist financial markets with more suitable institutions, will be more efficient than capitalism, more rational in its growth, more democratic, more egalitarian, and less alienating. |
| Singer, Peter | Marx | 0192854054 | Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. |
| Tormey, Simon | Anti-Capitalism | 9781780742502 | The puncture of the great banking bubble and the dash to austerity has breathed new life into protest movements across the globe and brought anti-capitalist values to the forefront as never before. But what does it mean to be anti-capitalist? And where is anti-capitalism going -- if anywhere? |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Bailey, Alison | The Feminist Philosophy Reader | 9780073407395 | The most comprehensive anthology of feminist philosophy available, this first edition reader brings together over 55 of the most brilliant, influential, and time-tested works to have been published in the field of feminist philosophy. |
| Bordo, Susan | Unbearable Weight | 0520240545 | From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body--weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more--in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape--finally! |
| Brownmiller, Susan | Against Our Will | 0671220624 | |
| Butler, Judith | Gender Trouble | 0415389550 | Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening | 9780393617313 | This Norton Critical Edition includes:* The annotated text of Kate Chopin's modernist novel of marital infidelity, set in New Orleans and Grande Isle, Louisiana.* A preface, a critical essay, and explanatory annotations by Margo Culley.* |
| Daly, Mary | Beyond God the Father | 0807015024 | |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | For Her Own Good | 1400078008 | From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and a former editor in chief Mother Jones , this women's history classic brilliantly uncovers the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. |
| Friedan, Betty | The Feminine Mystique | 0393322572 | This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. |
| Hooks, Bell | Feminist Theory | 9781138821651 | When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. |
| Keller, Evelyn Fox | Reflections on Gender and Science | 0300065957 | Why are objectivity and reason characterized as male and subjectively and feeling as female? How does this characterization affect the goals and methods of scientific enquiry? This groundbreaking work explores the possibilities of a gender-free science and the conditions that could make such a possibility a reality. |
| Mill, John Stuart | The Subjection of Women | 0486296016 | Believing that the subjugation of women was primarily political and psychological in origin, Mill urged the establishment of "complete equality in all legal, political, social, and domestic relations between men and women." |
| Millett, Kate | Sexual Politics | ||
| Okin, Susan Moller | Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? | 0691004315 | Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence...Do demands for multiculturalism--and certain minority group rights in particular--make them more likely to continue and to spread to liberal democracies? |
| Pateman, Carol | The Sexual Contract | 0804714762 | In this remarkably original work of political philosophy, one of today's foremost feminist theorist challenges the way contemporary society functions by questioning the standard interpretation of an idea that is deeply embedded in American and British political thought: that our rights and freedoms derive from the social contract explicated by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau and interpreted in the United States by the Founding Fathers |
| Valenti, Jessica | The Purity Myth | 9781580052535 | The United States is obsessed with virginity -- from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. |
| Wolf, Naomi | The Beauty Myth | 0060512180 | The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. |
| Young, Iris Marion | Intersecting Voices | 0691012016 | This collection of essays, which extends her work on feminist theory, explores questions such as the meaning of moral respect and the ways individuals relate to social collectives, together with timely issues like welfare reform, same-sex marriage, and drug treatment for pregnant women. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Bornstein, Kate | Gender Outlaw | 0679757015 | Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transsexual woman, Gender Outlaw breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed. |
| Butler, Judith | Bodies That Matter | 9780415610155 | In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. |
| Butler, Judith | Gender Trouble | 0415389550 | Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. |
| Foucault, Michel | The History of Sexuality, v. 1 | 0394417755 | |
| Mohr, Richard | The Long Arc of Justice | 0231135203 | Engaging the whole spectrum of public-policy issues affecting gays and lesbians from a humanistic and philosophical approach, Richard Mohr uses the tools of his trade to assess the logic and ethics of gay rights. |
| Rauch, Jonathan | Gay Marriage | 0805078150 | In this book, [Jonathan Rauch] puts forward a clear and honest manifesto explaining why gay marriage is important--even crucial--to the health of marriage in America today, grounding his argument in commonsense, mainstream values and confronting social conservatives on their own turf. |
| Scholinski, Dylan (Daphne) | The Last Time I Wore a Dress | 1573226963 | At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of "Gender Identity Disorder." |
| Sullivan, Nikki | A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory | 0814798403 | A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity, and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. |
| Warner, Michael | The Trouble With Normal | 0674004418 | Here, Michael Warner, argues that gay marriage and other moves toward normalcy are bad not just for gays but for everyone. In place of the sexual status quo, Warner offers a vision of true sexual autonomy that will forever change the way we think about sex, shame, and identity. |
| Wilkerson, William | Ambiguity and Sexuality | 140398011X | A new account of the formation of sexual identity, coined 'emerged fusion', which avoids the traps of the essentialism versus constructivism debate, and offers a viable third alternative. |
| Author | Title | ISBN | Description |
| Achebe, Chinua | No Longer At Ease | 9781607961529 | Things Fall Apart, tells of a troubled young African whose formal education separates him from his roots and makes him part of a corrupt ruling elite he despises. |
| Baldwin, James | The Fire Next Time | Forcefully and eomotionally Baldwin describes Black anger and disillusionment, pleads for a solution to race problems | |
| Baldwin, James | Notes of a Native Son | 0807064319 | A Black writer records his response to the conditions of Black life and white racism. |
| Blum, Lawrence | "I'm Not a Racist, But--" | 0801438691 | Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." |
| Carmichael, Stokely | Black Power | ||
| Césaire, Aimé | Discourse On Colonialism | 1583670254 | Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism andcolonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing thecontradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress"and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage," "uncultured," or"primitive." |
| Dyson, Michael | Is Bill Cosby Right? | 0465017207 | Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. |
| Dyson, Michael | Race Rules | 0679781560 | A noted African American intellectual uses examples from the Black community to trace racism in American politics, media, society, and culture, criticizing the hypocrisy of white liberals and whites' myths of Black males |
| Dyson, Michael | Tears We Cannot Stop | 9781250135995 | Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause: Nothing. Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed or discounted. |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man | ||
| Gould, Stephen Jay | The Mismeasure of Man | 0393014894 | When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. |
| Hooks, Bell | Killing Rage | 0805037829 | Twenty-three essays written from a black and feminist perspective ; they consider the bitter difficulities of racism by envisioning a world without it. |
| Ingram, David | Group Rights | 0700610065 | In this provocative book, David Ingram brings a variety of current social dilemmas together in a mutually illuminating way. |
| Kivel, Paul | Uprooting Racism | 9781550924954 | Uprooting Racism offers a framework for understanding institutional racism. It provides practical suggestions, tools, examples, and advice on how white people can intervene in interpersonal and organizational situations to work as allies for racial justice. |
| Said, Edward | Culture and Imperialism | 0679750541 | A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. |
| Swain, Carol | The New White Nationalism in America | 0521808863 | Over the past ten years, a new white nationalist movement has gained strength in America, bringing with it the potential to disrupt already fragile race relations. |
| Trepagnier, Barbara | Silent Racism | 9781594518270 | Vivid and engaging, Silent Racism persuasively demonstrates that silent racism--racism by people who classify themselves as "not racist"--is instrumental in the production of institutional racism. |
| West, Cornel | Race Matters | 0807009180 | First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic...Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans-one that will help us build a genuine multiracial democracy. |
| Wise, Tim | Dear White America | 9780872865211 | White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. |
| Young, Iris Marion | Justice and the Politics of Difference | 0691078327 | This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. |