Can anybody recommend me some philosophy / sociology / critical theory

[caleb]

Cheers for all these, you lot! Stuff to work through.

 

[Santino]

Now let's have an argument.

 

[articul8]

Althusser was shit - discuss

 

[butchersapron]

Althusser was shit - discuss

I reckon within 2 more posts you'll have said arid or dessicated.

 

[butchersapron]

I'll see references to people like Lucien Goldmann or Gillian Rose, for two examples, and not have a clue what they're on about. Both in terms of the langauge and concepts used, and their historical contexts (don't really know anything about Luckaks or Adorno or whatever, or Hegel and Kant before that). So something that'll ease me into being about to understand this sort of thing.

Gotcha, will try and post suggestions/links later.

 

[articul8]

I reckon within 2 more posts you'll have said arid or dessicated.

or both

 

[Santino]

Someone talk about Badiou. Still seems awfully like a charlatan to me.

 

[articul8]

It's strange the way the "idea of Communism" has come back into fashion only without any real relation to the lived experience of class today. No idea of strategy in Badiou - only post-hoc fidelity to the event as irreducibly singular interruption of Being. I suppose it was a bit refreshing after the ethical turn and respect for otherness, relativism, marginality, micro-politics etc. But I'm not sure it takes us any further than, say, John Holloway - which is to say not very far at all.

 

[Santino]

Prejudices: confirmed.

 

[TruXta]

Gods, there's actually an entire journal devoted to Badiou Studies.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

i quite enjoy these graphic guides 'Introduction to Critical Theory'
It's a huge subject and perhaps somekind of introduction is better rather than alot of specialist topics. You can then read further with what interests you. The Bertrand-Russell philosophy book is readable but very out of date.

 

[Pickman's model]

i quite enjoy these graphic guides 'Introduction to Critical Theory'
It's a huge subject and perhaps somekind of introduction is better rather than alot of specialist topics. You can then read further with what interests you. The Bertrand-Russell philosophy book is readable but very out of date.

bertrand is his first name and russell is his surname. it's not some double-barrelled monstrosity.

 

[redcogs]

Haralambos for the broader brush.

 

[articul8]

Gotcha, will try and post suggestions/links later.

come on butchersapron - looking forward to your suggestions/links

 

[ViolentPanda]

Althusser was shit - discuss

What's to discuss?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Haralambos for the broader brush.

And Preparation H for the haemorrhoids.

 

[Oldboy]

David Hume's enquiry.

 

[tar1984]

Shipman - The Limitations of Social Research

For an idea of what sociologists actually do, how social research works. It's about methods rather than theory. It's not even a key text or anything, but it's the most readable one I've seen so far.

 

[nino_savatte]

Alain de Botton? I hope not. Consolations of Philosophy was rubbish. Does he get any bettter?

I thought Simon Critichley was bad too. Both of them. All that secular religion nonsense.

Alain Badiou would be better. At least Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder hasn't been mentioned yet.

I know Critchley. He used to drink in the same Hitchin pubs as me.

 

[nino_savatte]

Herbert Marcuse - One Dimensional Man
Michel de Certeau - The Practice of Everyday Life
Pierre Bourdieu - The Field of Cultural Production
Bourdieu & Wacquant - An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

 

[Idris2002]

I'll put in a word here for Claude Levi-Strauss. There's a good podcast about him on the In Our Time site.

 

[Idris2002]

If you want to get up to speed with the latest intellectual scream, try Bruno Latour:

http://www.bruno-latour.fr/

Latour comes out of a)French Catholicism, and b) science and technology studies.

When I first read him, I though 'get to fuck' but I've since come round to think he does have more than a few insights, even if I wouldn't swallow his model whole.