 | Concluding Unscientific Postscript 1 : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 12.1 by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $6.65 Postmodernism is at root a qualification (and hence a rebellion) of modernism. Modernism being the totalizing efforts of the Enlightenment. Kierkegaard here fights against the totalizing Hegel.
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 | William James : Writings 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic Universe / The Meaning of Truth / Some Problems of Philosophy / Essays (Library of America) by William James
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $17.98 Pragmatism in it's own way is a qualification of modernity. The essay on truth in Pragmatism is a prime example of postmodern thought and foreshadows Heidegger. Husserl read James' psychology.
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 | The Radical Empiricism of William James. by William James
Wild trys to reappropriate James within the postmodern tradition. I think he's right.
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 | Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $1.47 The postmodern bomb. The metaphysical terrorist. If you do not read Nietzsche seriously you will not understand him. Don't ignore him because he is an immoralist. Believe him then qualify later.
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 | The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $7.00 The 1st 100 pages describe nihilism, what we now face. Nietzsche is FUN to read and challanging. Great writter. Make sure you read the famous section 125 of The Gay Science about the madman.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.48 An existentialist novelist. Ahead of his time.
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 | Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Buy used from: $8.99 The postmodern soil. Heidegger embraces finite man and describes what lived existence is like. Marvellous and essential to understanding postmodern thought in the 20th century.
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 | The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $8.50 The scaried discussion of the powerful and woofully dangerous technological mindset - the contemporary, modern way of appropriating the world. Eye opening.
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 | Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Buy used from: $7.85 Student of Heidegger. Central figure in Hermeneutics - how we interprit and understand ourselves.
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 | Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.38 Sartre yoinked most of his stuff from Heidegger, but was a Cartesian. He is a step back towards modernism. This is why Existentialism has faded. Sartre's concept of freedom has come under heavy fire.
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 | The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $3.13 Clear exposition of nihilistic existentialism. A good read that certainly helps to understand one route (in my opinion not the best) to cope with the nihilism and ennui of contemporary life.
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 | Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $13.84 The lived body. We are not detached minds in a mechanical body. An elaboration of Heidegger and Nietzsche who both appreciated the power of habit and the body. A critique of Sartre.
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 | Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Buy new: $24.39 / Used from: $17.50 The guy who blew holes in the aspirations of analytic philosophy from inside it. Understood the horizons we understand from. Phil of language side of postmodern thought. Good stuff.
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 | Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $16.19 The first major critique of Heidegger. T & I is powerful turn towards newness, plurality and the alterity of the Other. Ethics becomes a central concern, if not THE concern with this work.
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| The Fragile We: Ethical Implications Of Heidegger's "Being and Time" (SPEP) by Lawrence Vogel
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $4.97 A good discussion of the inadequacy of Sartrean existentialism, a critique of Heidegger and an inquiry into how thinkers like Levinas help fix these difficulties. I enjoyed this immensely.
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 | The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.48 I'm not a huge fan of Foucault, but he does bring to light problems in the social sciences. This puts humanity in its place in a way and qualifies the aspirations of the social "sciences".
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 | Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Buy new: $18.81 / Used from: $10.50 Most famous philosohpher alive? I thought this was a good introduction. Derrida has written extensively - start with Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology.
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 | Oneself as Another by Paul Ricoeur
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $12.60 Another work on ethics from a Christian postmodernist, "God is Dead" does not just mean we all become athiests, but that we rethink the onto-theological God.
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 | Religion after Metaphysics
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $21.00 Discussions of where religion if headed after Nietzsche and Kierkegaard correctly pointed out some major flaws in how religion was working. GREAT read.
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 | Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $19.80 The first section addresses ethics and is very postmodern. The majority of the book discusses what has made the contemporary thinker and what options she has. GREAT.
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 | Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.80 An analytic philsopher (modern) turned postmodernist. Hard to peg down, easy to read. Fun.
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 | Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.31 A good, easy to read discussion of the historical antecedants that led up to the postmodern revolt. The reader may want to start with this.
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 | Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $9.75 Postmodern short stories from a profound thinker. See Ficciones and labyrinthes.
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 | OK Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.54 postmodern music. Nihilism.
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