Roads to Freedom
by Bertrand Russell | 
The Virtue of Selfishness
by Ayn Rand | 
Justice
by Michael J. Sandel |
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
by Richard Rorty | 
Nietzsche and Philosophy
by Gilles Deleuze | 
The Art of the Impossible
by Vaclav Havel | 
State of Exception
by Giorgio Agamben | 
One-Dimensional Man
by Herbert Marcuse |
The Concept of the Political
by Carl Schmitt |
An Introduction to Political Philosophy
by Jonathan Wolff | 
The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx
by Alex Callinicos |
Objectivism
by Leonard Peikoff |
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord | 
Ride the Tiger
by Julius Evola | 
Political Liberalism
by John Rawls |
Justice for hedgehogs
by Ronald Dworkin |
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
by Jurgen Habermas |
Contemporary Political Philosophy
by Will Kymlicka | 
The Promise of Politics
by Hannah Arendt | 
Philosophy and Real Politics
by Raymond Geuss |
One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism in this cornerstone of modern radical thought. Published in early 1968, it both kindled and colored the May 1968 upheavals in France, which captured the attention of the world. Naming and defining the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society: survival rather than living in full, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and the replacement of God by the economy, the book argues that the countervailing impulses that exist within deep alienation - creativity, spontaneity, poetry present an authentic alternative to nilhilistic consumerism. This carefully edited new translation marks the first North American publication of this important work and includes a new preface by the author.