 | Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida by G Borradori
Buy new: £9.24 / Used from: £7.99 Great debate on terror, or what we normally consider terror. Takes up themes such as enlightment, Gadamers effective history other grat themes.
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 | Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.99 Awesome critique of too heavy economic liberalization. Deals both with theory and history. Read it...
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 | The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought (Penguin Social Sciences) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £4.94 Nice introduction to one of the greatest critical thinkers of our time.
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 | Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: Identities, Hegemonies and Social Change
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £14.88 This book deals with practical cases on how one can use discourse theory in everyday life.
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 | Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.75 As I have read a lot of Chomsky, I must say that one should also be critical of what he has to say. He takes up interesting topics though.
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 | Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P. J. O'Rourke
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £4.12 On how to be critical of the whole political proces. Really funny with a lot of great stories from the Hill.
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 | Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
Buy new: £29.75 / Used from: £17.29 Schumpeter makes some good arguments, but reaches the wrong conclusion(capitalism won´t survive!!). If you are just a little bit critical of capitalism you should read this.
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 | A People's History of the United States: 1492-present by Howard Zinn
Buy new: £31.29 / Used from: £24.72 If you have read any american history, you should also read this to be critical of what you have read.
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 | The Concept of the Political by C Schmitt
Buy used from: £9.90 Read this book, it will blow you away. As with Schumpeter, great critical thinking, wrong conclusions.
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 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy used from: £8.98 Is the world all economics? Remeber to take a sociology class to get balanced.
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 | The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £20.68 Great collection of radical american political thinking. Read this if you have the crazy idea that there has never been real radicalism in USA.
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 | After the Empire by Emmanuel Todd
Buy used from: £1.20 Can USA sustain their empire while upholding their economic fragility? Todd says no!
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