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    Critical Theory Reading List

    Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History With a Cosmopolitan Purpose


    Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, Part One, 11-17, On Property Right
    G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, 178-196. translation: A. V. Miller (Oxford)
    G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right, Preface, 181-209, 230-281 (pages 9-23, 219-240, 259325). Nisbet trans. (Cambridge)
    Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Early Writings (Critique of Hegels Doctrine of
    State, On the Jewish Question, A Contribution to a Critique of Hegels Philosophy of
    Right, Critical Notes on the Article The King of Prussia and Social Reform), Grundrisse
    (Introduction), Capital Vol.1 (Chpt. 1 Commodities), Capital. Vol. 3, (Chpt. 48 The
    Trinity Formula)
    Max Weber, "'Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy" (pages 50-113 from Weber, The
    Methodology of the Social Sciences)
    Antonio Gramsci. 1971[1930s]. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Hoare and Nowell Smith
    eds. Book II, 1 and 2 (The Modern Prince and State and Civil Society, pgs 125-205);
    Book III, 1 (The Study of Philosophy, pgs 323-377)
    Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, The Dialectic of Enlightenment (all)
    Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
    Giorgio Agamben, What is an Apparatus?
    Edward Said. Orientalism, Introduction, Chapter 1 (sections I and II) and Chapter 3 (section I)
    Alain Badiou, Ethics
    Alain Badiou, Logics of Worlds (Preface, Chpt. II.7)
    Werner Bonefeld, Abstract Labour- Against Its Nature and on Its Time
    Mariana Dalla Costa and Selma James, The power of women and the subversion of the
    community
    Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, Capitalism as Religion and Walter
    Benjamin, Critique of Violence, in Reflections, Peter Demetz, ed.

    Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (Chapter I, Conclusion)


    Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (Introduction and Chpts. 1, 2, 3, 4)
    Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
    Guy Debord, The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
    Franz Fanon, Black Skins/White Masks (Chpt. 1, 5, 6, 7, 8)
    Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1 part. 5 Right of Death and Power over Life
    Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, Chpt. 2, 3, 11
    Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Part I.1, III.1, III.3)
    David Harvey, The Conditions of Postmodernity
    Jurgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action, Volume II: Chapters VI and VIII
    Max Horkheimer, Traditional and Critical Theory
    Fredric Jameson, Postmodernity or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (New left Review
    essay version)
    Gyorg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness (What is Orthodox Marxism? and
    Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat)
    Moishe Postone, Time, Labor and Social Domination
    Gayathri Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak
    Simmel, The Social Role of Money
    Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life
    Jean Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason Vol. 1 (Pt. 1 The Dogmatic Dialectic and the
    Critical Dialectic
    Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology,

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