Reading List

UbuMarx
3 min readDec 30, 2021

Adorno and Horkheimer Dialectic of Enlightenment

Allen, Amy Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis

Althusser, Louis On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Idology and Ideological State Apparutuses

Anderson, Benedict Imagined Communities

Asad, Talal et. Al Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech

Barthes, Roland The Death of the Author

Barthes, Roland From Work to Text

Bauman, Gerd and Andre Gingrich Grammars of Identity/Alterity: A Structural Approach

Benjamin, Walter The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Berlant, Lauren Cruel Optimism

Bloom, Paul The Root of All Cruelty

Butler, Judith Gender Trouble Butler, Judith et. Al The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

Calhoun, Craig (Editor) Rethinking Secularism

Dawkins, Richard The God Delusion

Derrida, Jacques Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Language

Derrida, Jacques Of Grammatology

Derrida, Jacques Differance

Doring, Tobias and Mark Stein (Editors) Edward Said’s Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism

Dreyfus, Hubert and Sean D. Kelly All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

Durkheim, Emile The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Elkins, Paul and Manfred Max-Neef (Editors) Real-Life Economics

Fitz, Paul C. Psychology as Religion

Foucault, Michel Madness and Civilization

Foucault, Michel The Archaeology of Knowledge

Foucault, Michel Discipline and Punish

Foucault, Michel The History of Sexuality: Volume One

Foucault, Michel Power/Knowledge (Interviews and Other Writings 1972 to 1977)

Gourgouris, Stathis Lessons is Secular Criticism

Gramsci, Antonio Prison Notebooks

Gramsci, Antonio The Organization of Education and of Culture

Hall, Stuart Cultural Studies and Its Theoritical Legacies

Harris, Sam Letter to a Christian Nation

Harvey, David The Condition of Postmodernity

Hedbidge, Dick Subculture: The Meaning of Style

Hitchens, Christopher God is Not Great

Holyoake, George The Reasoner

Howe, Stephen Edward Said and Marxian Anxieties of Influence

Jacoby, Susan Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

James, C.L.R. What is Art?

Jameson, Fredric Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

King, Martin Luther Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Kruse, Kevin One Nation Under God

Lacan, Jacques The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious: or Reason Since Freud

Lacan, Jacques The Mirror Stage

Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

Latour, Bruno On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

Lefebvre, Henri Notes on the New Town

Locke, John Second Treatise of Government

Locke, John A Letter Concerning Toleration

Locke, John The Reasonableness of Christianity

Marcusse, Herbert One-Dimensional Man

McClintock, Anne Imperial Leather

Nietzsche, Friedrich On the Geneaology of Morals

Paine, Thomas Agrarian Justice

Parker, Robert Dale How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies

Power, Thomas M. Environmental Protection and Ecnonomic Well-being: The Economic Pursuit of Quality

Reisner, Marc Cadillac Desert

Said, Edward The Text, the world, the critic

Said, Edward Orientalism

Said, Edward The World, the Text, and the Critic

Said, Edward Culture and Imperialism

Santa Anna, Otto Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse

Schmitt, Carl Political Theology

Shelley, Percy Bysshe The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Can the Subaltern Speak

Taylor, Charles The Ethics of Authenticity

Taylor, Charles Modern Social Imaginaries

Taylor, Charles A Secular Age

Taylor, Charles The Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

Vivek, Chibber The Legacy of Orientalism

Weber, Max The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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UbuMarx

I am working on a doctorate in American Studies and the emphasis of my work is a study of poverty within the American Dream as a necessary/sacred presence.