 | The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre
Buy new: £18.53 / Used from: £15.95 Distilled from inequal parts Marx, Nietzsche and Freud this is the most potent work of urbanism and social theory around - and a major contribution to the Philosophy of History, besides.
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 | The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration by Anthony Giddens
Buy used from: £20.82 Still an essential read for social scientists of all kinds dispite recent endorsments of centre-left (ie not left) neo-liberal economics and his stupid comments on traditional societies.
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 | The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge v. 1 by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £3.62 / Used from: £3.75 Not just an early history lesson of its kind (sexuality) but also a valuable lesson about writing history.
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 | Postmodern Geographies: Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (Haymarket) by Edward W. Soja
Buy new: £9.70 / Used from: £8.50 A useful rendering of the history and directions of the spatial turn in the social sciences from Lefebvre's heir.
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 | Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty First Century (International Library of Sociology) by John Urry
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £15.00 Again, a formidible introduction to the most uptodate influences and directions - Urry begins by rejecting the thing 'Society' as the focus of our enquiry.
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 | The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Buy new: £4.02 / Used from: £3.78 A beautiful and evocative look at personal space in society - contrasts strikingly with ...
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 | The Virilio Reader (Blackwell Readers)
Buy new: £17.37 / Used from: £21.38 At times a grim and pessimistic critique of society smothered by technology - adds the violent dimention of Light/Speed (Virilio's 'Dromdology') to Time and Space as the elements of our existence.
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 | Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £6.10 There is no doubt about Heidegger's importance to modern thinking - these papers and extracts place Space and the human body at the centre of being/being-as.
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 | No Logo by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.82 Western consumer culture as global preditor - the geographical reach of capitalism and its micro-effects, all in a savage journalistic prose.
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 | Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
Buy new: £16.46 / Used from: £3.99 Read how the west's tool of economy building 'Nationalism' was adopted/exported abroad.
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 | Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £24.79 / Used from: £19.28 A fantastic, vibrant read - in the form of autobiography - bringing together Marx and Freud with an infectious enthusiasm for a practical, emancipatory humanism. Writing to aspire to.
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 | Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Probably not an obvious choice but I'm reading this at the moment and, along with Super-Cannes, it stands as a (Lord of the Flies-esque) warning of the cold vacuousness of modern (leisure) space.
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 | Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen
Buy new: £8.58 / Used from: £4.23 Contains an interesting paper on set design, true, and Hichcock was originally a set designer - but it also has a lot to say about aesthetics, social history, time and space, and human creativity.
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