 | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin Social Sciences) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.20 Pretty accesible introduction to Foucault's genealogies
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 | The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge v. 1 by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.67 The macro-physics of power. Introduction to bio-politics and the methodological guidelines for the study of power
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 | The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality by Graham Burchell
Buy used from: £11.60 Foucault's theories applied to the modern state. Worth it for Colin Gordon's introduction alone.
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 | Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought by Nikolas Rose
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £14.25 Probably the best bid for an "modern" and sociological update of Foucault's work
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 | Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 v. 3 (Essential Works of Foucault 3) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £10.27 / Used from: £7.56 Contains key-texts in the understanding of governmentality (Subject & Power, Omnes et Singulatim etc.).
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 | Social Systems (Writing Science) by Niklas Luhmann
Buy used from: £64.51 One of Luhmann's key-works. Very hard to read, but rewarding if you persist.
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 | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) by Max Weber
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £5.00 Brilliant analysis of the rise of capitalism. A definite must-read
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 | The Division of Labour in Society (Contemporary Social Theory) by Emile Durkheim
Buy new: £23.99 / Used from: £21.00 Like Weber, this is a classic of sociology.
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 | The Genealogy of Morals (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £1.97 / Used from: £0.03 A brilliant reflection on the morals of western societies
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.84 Excellent and easily-read classic of philosophy
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 | Critique of Pure Reason: Unified Edition by Immanuel Kant
Buy new: £12.57 / Used from: £12.00 More oldies. Good book on the understanding of things.
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 | Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (Phronesis) by Ernesto Laclau
Buy new: £8.50 / Used from: £6.33 Essential for anyone remotely interested in discourse analysis
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 | Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu
Buy new: £25.09 / Used from: £32.53 Hard to read, but a very good book.
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 | The Policing of Families by Professor Jacques Donzelot
Buy used from: £32.51 Essential in the understanding of the welfare state
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 | The Road to Serfdom (Abridged Edition) by F.A. Hayek
Buy used from: £19.54 Classic neo-liberal philosophy. Agree or disagree, but listen to him.
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 | Governmentality : Power and Rule in Modern Society by Dr Mitchell M Dean
Buy new: £20.52 / Used from: £17.79 A very well-written and accesible introduction to the field of governmentality
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 | The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias
Buy new: £21.59 / Used from: £18.48 Brilliant, ground-breaking work on state formations
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