Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed
 This book IS required reading for all Americans.: Bertman gives us a rare blend of deep historical understanding and clarity of view of our own times. Page after page, recognition chimes go off. He has said what we have all felt in our moments of doubt [... more]
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Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Gather the Fragments...: "Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts back to mythology" (xviii). This statement is likely one of the most explosive philosphical theses penned in the 20th century, for not only did it give [... more]
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Eclipse of Reason (Eclipse of Reason Ppr)
Reason as Failure: Horkheimer's book, Eclipse of Reason deals with the concept of "reason" within the history of Western philosophy. Horkheimer defines true reason as rationality. He details the difference between objective and subjective [... more]
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Crossing the Postmodern Divide
The book is ultimatley disappointing.: In Crossing the Post Modern Divide, Albert Borgman has done a fine job of describing many troubling features of modern society. The emotively vivid, often poetic language that he uses renders the book very readable. [... more]
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory ...
Post-Nuclear Philosophical Fallout: If, as William Barrett once remarked, existentialism is "philosophy for the atomic age," then the atomic age's look into the future - by way of Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition - is nothing [... more]
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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Excellent and thought-provoking.: Other reviews have done a nice job of explaining the textual benefits of the book, so let me explain its practical benefit. I'll keep this short and sweet. This is an excellent text to trot out during a sociology or [... more]
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the ...
Amazon.com Review: The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a professor of geography and a key mover behind extending the scope and [... more]
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument ...
Sturm und Drang: In the fall of 1946, the philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper had their only face-to-face encounter during an argument over the nature of the work of philosophers; the splenetic Wittgenstein used a poker from the fireplace to [... more]
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On the Internet (Thinking in Action)
Kierkegaard surfs prodigiously...: This is a very little book dealing with a very big subject: does the internet add or detract from meaning in our lives? Such a topic can be covered only in a cursory way within 107 pages, but the major issues are [... more]
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The Information Bomb
technophobes unite!: A unique mix of Situationism, postmodernism, and Luddism! (With a dose of Foucault and a left-wing Catholic streak?!) Virilio's staccato, rapid-fire assault mostly dispenses with conventional argument or exposition, but that's what [... more]
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The Society of the Spectacle
This should be required reading for first years.: I haven't read any of the other translations of this text, however, this one reads quite fluidly. The scope of the book sets the tone for one's consideration of contemporary events and societal relations. [... more]
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The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)
Collectivism Against Individuality: The fallacy is in his assumption that individuals must forfeit all sovereignty to the state. The second specious argument is in the creation of a General Will. The third is that the general will will not do anything to [... more]
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