Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Short Summer Reading List

For any students of political theory who might catch this, here's a short summer reading list. Amazon url's are in parentheses. I also have online url's for some of the classics. No particular order of preference.

Enjoy!

1. Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings. http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Baudrillard-Selected-Writings-Second/dp/0804742731/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274931155&sr=1-1.

2. Michel Foucault, A History of Sexuality, vol 1. (http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Baudrillard-Selected-Writings-Second/dp/0804742731/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274931155&sr=1-1)

3. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127096506).

4. Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, http://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolitanism-Ethics-World-Strangers-Issues/dp/039332933X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274931605&sr=1-1

5. Carol Smart, Law, Crime, and Sexuality: Essays in Feminism, (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Carol+Smart%2C+law)

6. Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times, (http://www.amazon.com/Living-End-Times-Slavoj-Zizek/dp/184467598X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274931993&sr=1-1)

7. Karl Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/wages.htm

8. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, online at http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm

9. Shakespeare, Hamlet, online at http://books.google.com/books?id=rORGgTWnAXEC&dq=Shakespeare,+Hamlet&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=Eez9S5TuG4H88Aamh9jYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=falseFriedrich

10. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, http://books.google.com/books?id=p2h1jVM6WJ4C&dq=nietzsche+thus+spoke+zarathustra&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=gOz9S727IYL58AbTmJniDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=falsebell

11. hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism (http://www.amazon.com/killing-rage-Ending-bell-hooks/dp/0805050272)

12. bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, http://www.amazon.com/Sisters-Yam-Black-Self-Recovery-Classics/dp/0896087336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274932523&sr=1-1

13. Plato, Republic, Books XIII and IX, online at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html

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