Social philosophy reading recommendations?
Ok, so. I very much doubt that people I met through philosophy still read this, but just in case...
I am embarking on a tour of social and continental philosophy (of which I am woefully ignorant). This will probably include mostly secondary texts and some primary texts on:
- Immanuel Kant: my impressions of his ideas haven't drawn me to him in the past, but he is so influential that having at least a basic understanding of his ideas is probably a requirement
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Nietszsche
- Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guatarri: I'm reading about Deleuze on Stanford Encyclopedia and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at the moment. I am about to purchase Capitalism and Schizophrenia and am pretty excited about it.
- Michel Foucault
- Jacques Lacan: I have read some articles about him; I'm not sure how committed I am to tackling primary texts; my interest in his ideas mostly stemmed from Zizek
- Theodor Adorno
- Raoul Vaneigem: I had never even heard about him until last week; I am about to pick up a copy of The Revolution of Everyday Life on a friend's recommendation
- Slavoj Zizek: I've read essays from How to Read Lacan, watched a bunch of videos featuring Zizek, and have started Living in the End Times but it's hard-going without some important background.
Additions that have been recommended so far:
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Edmund Husserl: I've read excerpts from some of his texts and am vaguely familiar with his ideas
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: ditto
- Martin Heidegger: I read part of a strange translation of Sein und Zeit when I was auditing a class on him as an undergrad. I found his ideas fascinating and relevant but had to drop the class because of time constraints.
- Tsvetan Todorov - "Life in Common"
I also plan to read up on historical cases of activism and why they were effective (or not) as well as modern political analyses.
Who/what is missing from my list? Would anybody recommend some specific readings and/or an order in which to read? I want to develop a general understanding of the tradition, but I am also specifically interested in social/political dynamics, ideas for social change, the self and the other, and individual human psychology and how it scales to the social and political level.
I am embarking on a tour of social and continental philosophy (of which I am woefully ignorant). This will probably include mostly secondary texts and some primary texts on:
- Immanuel Kant: my impressions of his ideas haven't drawn me to him in the past, but he is so influential that having at least a basic understanding of his ideas is probably a requirement
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Nietszsche
- Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guatarri: I'm reading about Deleuze on Stanford Encyclopedia and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at the moment. I am about to purchase Capitalism and Schizophrenia and am pretty excited about it.
- Michel Foucault
- Jacques Lacan: I have read some articles about him; I'm not sure how committed I am to tackling primary texts; my interest in his ideas mostly stemmed from Zizek
- Theodor Adorno
- Raoul Vaneigem: I had never even heard about him until last week; I am about to pick up a copy of The Revolution of Everyday Life on a friend's recommendation
- Slavoj Zizek: I've read essays from How to Read Lacan, watched a bunch of videos featuring Zizek, and have started Living in the End Times but it's hard-going without some important background.
Additions that have been recommended so far:
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Edmund Husserl: I've read excerpts from some of his texts and am vaguely familiar with his ideas
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: ditto
- Martin Heidegger: I read part of a strange translation of Sein und Zeit when I was auditing a class on him as an undergrad. I found his ideas fascinating and relevant but had to drop the class because of time constraints.
- Tsvetan Todorov - "Life in Common"
I also plan to read up on historical cases of activism and why they were effective (or not) as well as modern political analyses.
Who/what is missing from my list? Would anybody recommend some specific readings and/or an order in which to read? I want to develop a general understanding of the tradition, but I am also specifically interested in social/political dynamics, ideas for social change, the self and the other, and individual human psychology and how it scales to the social and political level.