Recommended Readings on Social, Political and Economic Theories

Theoretical Foundations of Global Studies

Social, Political and Economic Theories

INTL 390 - FALL 2014

Portland State University

1. Republic By Plato. http://www.amazon.com/Plato-Republic/dp/0872201368/
2. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History By Ibn Khaldûn. N. J. Dawood (Editor), Franz Rosenthal (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Muqaddimah-Introduction-History-Bollingen/dp/0691120544/
3. The Prince By Nicolo Machiavelli. http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Nicolo-Machiavelli/dp/1613823509/
4. Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes. http://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Penguin-Classics-Thomas-Hobbes/dp/0140431950/ 
5. The Critique of Pure Reason By Immanuel Kant. http://www.amazon.com/Critique-Pure-Reason-Immanuel-Kant/dp/1466265418/ 
6. Introduction to the Philosophy of History By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Leo Rauch (Translator, Introduction). http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Philosophy-History-Wilhelm-Friedrich/dp/0872200566
7. The Wealth of Nations By Adam Smith. http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Adam-Smith/dp/1490944052/
8. The Theory of Moral Sentiments By Adam Smith. http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Moral-Sentiments-Adam-Smith/dp/1619491281/
9. Karl Marx: Selected Writings Second Edition Edited by David McLellan. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198782650.do#.UmBxJyQZ9oQ
10. The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. http://www.amazon.com/German-Ideology-including-Feuerbach-Philosophy/dp/1573922587/
11. Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville. Harvey C. Mansfield (Translator) and Delba Winthrop (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-Alexis-Tocqueville/dp/0226805360/    
12. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. http://www.amazon.com/On-Advantage-Disadvantage-History-Life/dp/0915144948
13. Civilization and Its Discontents By Sigmund Freud. http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Its-Discontents-Sigmund-Freud/dp/1603865519
14. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis By Sigmund Freud. www.amazon.com/Introductory-Lectures-Psychoanalysis-Sigmund-Freud/dp/0871401185/  
15. The Rise and Fall of Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology By Vilfredo Pareto. http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Elites-Application-Theoretical/dp/0887388728/
16. The Ruling Class By Gaetano Mosca. http://www.amazon.com/The-Ruling-Class-Gaetano-Mosca/dp/124557096X/ 
17. Economy and Society Two Volume Set. Max Weber. Guenther Roth (Editor), Claus Wittich (Editor) University of California Press, 2013. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520280021
18. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism By Max Weber.

http://www.amazon.com/Protestant-Ethic-Spirit-Capitalism/dp/0199747253/

19. The Sociology of Religion By Max Weber. Ephraim Fischoff (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/The-Sociology-Religion-Max-Weber/dp/0807042056   
20. The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel http://www.eddiejackson.net/web.../Philosophy%20of%20Money.pdf‎  
21. Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected Tales By Harriet Martineau. Deborah Anna Logan (Editor). http://www.amazon.com/Illustrations-Political-Economy-Selected-Tales/dp/1551114410/
22. The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim

http://www.amazon.com/Division-Labor-Society-Emile-Durkheim/dp/0684836386

23. Suicide By Emile Durkheim. George Simpson (Editor), John A. Spaulding (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Emile-Durkheim/dp/0684836327
24. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life By Emile Durkheim. Mark S. Cladis (Editor), Carol Cosman (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Religious-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199540128
25. Mind, Self, and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead, Vol. 1 and 2) George Herbert Mead (Author), Charles W. Morris (Editor).  http://www.amazon.com/Society-Standpoint-Social-Behaviorist-Herbert/dp/0226516687
26. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy By Joseph Schumpeter. http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Joseph-Schumpeter-ebook/dp/B00AWO0CYI/
27. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism By Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. http://www.amazon.com/Imperialism-Highest-Capitalism-Penguin-ebook/dp/B003ZUXX5G/
28. History of the Russian Revolution By Leon Trotsky. Ahmed Shawki (Introduction). http://www.amazon.com/History-Russian-Revolution-Leon-Trotsky-ebook/dp/B0042JSRHI/ 
29. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money By John Maynard Keynes. http://www.amazon.com/General-Theory-Employment-Interest-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B00B336PI4/
30. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents By F. A. Hayek. http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Fiftieth-Anniversary/dp/0226320618/  
31. Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge By Karl Mannheim. 1936. http://www.amazon.com/Ideology-Utopia-Introduction-Sociology-Knowledge/dp/0156439557 
32. Man and Society: In an Age of Reconstruction: Studies in Modern Social Structure By Karl Mannheim. http://www.amazon.com/Man-Society-Reconstruction-Studies-Structure/dp/0156569205
33. The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois. http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Black-Folk-W-Bois/dp/149239792X/
34. The Accumulation of Capital By Rosa Luxemburg. Agnes Schwarzschild (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/The-Accumulation-of-Capital-ebook/dp/B00AQM8Z9U/
35. Being and Time By Martin Heidegger. http://www.amazon.com/Being-Time-Martin-Heidegger/dp/0061575593/
36. Being and Nothingness By Jean-Paul Sartre. Hazel E. Barnes (Translator). www.amazon.com/Being-Nothingness-Jean-Paul-Sartre/dp/0671867806/   
37. The Authoritarian Personality By Theodor W. Adorno. http://www.amazon.com/The-Authoritarian-Personality-Studies-Prejudice/dp/0393311120 
38. The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 By Antonio Gramsci. David Forgacs (Editor), Eric J. Hobsbawm (Introduction). http://www.amazon.com/The-Antonio-Gramsci-Reader-1916-1935/dp/0814727018
39. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections By Walter Benjamin. Hannah Arendt (Editor, Introduction), Harry Zohn (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Illuminations-Essays-Reflections-Walter-Benjamin/dp/0805202412
40. Mythologies By Roland Barthes. Annette Lavers (Translator).
41. Marxism and Literature By Raymond Williams. http://www.amazon.com/Marxism-Literature-Marxist-Introductions-Williams/dp/0198760612
42. The Concept of the Political By Carl Schmitt. George Schwab (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/The-Concept-Political-Expanded-Edition/dp/0226738922/
43. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty By Carl Schmitt. George Schwab (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Political-Theology-Chapters-Concept-Sovereignty/dp/0226738892/  
44. The Human Condition By Hannah Arendt, University of Chicago Press, 1998. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3643020.html
45. The Origins of Totalitarianism By Hannah Arendt. 1948. http://www.amazon.com/The-Origins-Totalitarianism-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0156701537  
46. Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) By Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr (Editor), Edmund Jephcott (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Dialectic-Enlightenment-Cultural-Memory-Present/dp/0804736332
47. The Power Elite By C. Wright Mills. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-power-elite-9780195133547?cc=us&lang=en&
48. White Collar: The American Middle Classes By C. Wright Mills. http://www.amazon.com/White-Collar-American-Middle-Classes/dp/0195157087/
49. The Sociological Imagination By C. Wright Mills. http://www.amazon.com/Sociological-Imagination-C-Wright-Mills/dp/0195133730/ 
50. The Wretched of the Earth By Frantz Fanon. Richard Philcox (Translator) , Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface). http://www.amazon.com/The-Wretched-Earth-Frantz-Fanon/dp/0802141323
51. Black Skin, White Masks By Frantz Fanon. Richard Philcox (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Black-White-Masks-Frantz-Fanon/dp/0802143008/ 
52. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life By Erving Goffman. Anchor Books, 1959. http://www.amazon.com/The-Presentation-Self-Everyday-Life/dp/0385094027 
53. The Structure of Social Action, Vol. 1 and 2: Marshall, Pareto, Durkheim By Talcott Parsons. 1967. http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Social-Action-Vol-Marshall/dp/0029242401/
54. The Talcott Parsons Reader By Bryan S. Turner. 1991. http://www.amazon.com/Talcott-Parsons-Reader-Blackwell-Readers/dp/1557865442
55. On Social Structure and Science By Robert K. Merton. Piotr Sztompka (Editor). http://www.amazon.com/Social-Structure-Science-Heritage-Sociology/dp/0226520714/
56. Social Theory and Social Structure By Robert K. Merton. 1968. http://www.amazon.com/Social-Theory-Structure-Robert-Merton/dp/0029211301/
57. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions By Thomas S. Kuhn. University of Chicago Press, 1962. http://www.amazon.com/The-Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Edition/dp/0226458083
58. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge By Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann 1967. http://www.amazon.com/The-Social-Construction-Reality-Sociology/dp/0385058985
59. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays By Louis Althusser. http://www.amazon.com/Lenin-Philosophy-Other-Essays-Althusser/dp/1583670394/
60. For Marx By Louis Althusser. Ben Brewster (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Marx-Radical-Thinkers-Louis-Althusser/dp/184467052X/
61. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison By Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Punish-The-Birth-Prison/dp/0679752552
62. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception By Michel Foucault. http://www.amazon.com/The-Birth-Clinic-Archaeology-Perception/dp/0679753346
63. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason By Michel Foucault. http://www.amazon.com/Madness-Civilization-History-Insanity-Reason/dp/067972110X
64. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences By Michel Foucault. http://www.amazon.com/The-Order-Things-Archaeology-Sciences/dp/0679753354
65. The History of Sexuality By Michel Foucault. Robert Hurley (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/The-History-Sexuality-Vol-Introduction/dp/0679724699
66. The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1 (A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760); Volume 2 (The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914); Volume 3 (Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945). By Michael Mann. http://www.amazon.com/The-Sources-Social-Power-Beginning/dp/1107635977 
67. The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations By Norbert Elias. http://www.amazon.com/The-Civilizing-Process-Psychogenetic-Investigations/dp/0631221611
68. Discourse on Colonialism By Aimé Césaire. Joan Pinkham (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Colonialism-Aim%C3%A9-C%C3%A9saire/dp/1583670254/
69. The Colonizer and the Colonized By Albert Memmi. Jean-Paul Sartre (Introduction). http://www.amazon.com/The-Colonizer-Colonized-Albert-Memmi/dp/0807003018/
70. Decolonization and the Decolonized By Albert Memmi. Robert Bonnono (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Decolonization-Decolonized-Albert-Memmi/dp/0816647356
71. Toward the African Revolution By Frantz Fanon. Haakon Chevalier (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Toward-African-Revolution-Fanon-Frantz/dp/0802130909
72. Social Systems (Writing Science) By Niklas Luhmann. John Bednarz Jr. (Translator), Dirk Baecker (Translator). 1996. http://www.amazon.com/Social-Systems-Writing-Science-Luhmann/dp/0804726256/ 
73. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method By Herbert Blumer. http://www.amazon.com/Symbolic-Interactionism-Perspective-Herbert-Blumer/dp/0520056760 
74. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics By Georg Lukács. Rodney Livingstone (Translator). 1968. http://www.amazon.com/History-Class-Consciousness-Studies-Dialectics/dp/0262620200
75. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structure of Everyday Life (Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century) By Fernand Braudel (Author), Siân Reynold (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Capitalism-15th-18th-Century-Vol/dp/0520081145
76. The Modern World-System I, II, III, IV and V - Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, With a New Prologue Immanuel Wallerstein (Author) University of California Press, 2011.

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267572 

77. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society By Ralf Dahrendorf (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Industrial-Society-Classic-Reprint/dp/B00937UDH6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_4
78. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient By Edward W. Said. Penguin Books, 2003. http://www.amazon.com/Orientalism-Edward-W-Said/dp/039474067X
79. Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Grammatology-Jacques-Derrida/dp/0801858305
80. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International By Jacques Derrida. http://www.amazon.com/Specters-Marx-Mourning-International-Routledge/dp/0415389577/
81. Margins of Philosophy By Jacques Derrida. Alan Bass (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Margins-Philosophy-Jacques-Derrida/dp/0226143260/
82. The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret By Jacques Derrida. David Wills (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Second-Edition-Literature-Religion-Postmodernism/dp/0226142779/  
83. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society By Herbert Marcuse. http://www.amazon.com/One-Dimensional-Man-Ideology-Advanced-Industrial/dp/0807014176/
84. Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud By Herbert Marcuse.

http://www.amazon.com/Eros-Civilization-Philosophical-Inquiry-Freud/dp/0807015555/ 

85. Outline of a Theory of Practice By Pierre Bourdieu. Richard Nice (Translator). Cambridge University Press, 1977. http://www.amazon.com/Outline-Practice-Cambridge-Cultural-Anthropology/dp/052129164X
86. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action By Pierre Bourdieu. Randall Johnson (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Reason-On-Theory-Action/dp/0804733635
87. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art By James Clifford. http://www.amazon.com/The-Predicament-Culture-Twentieth-Century-Ethnography/dp/0674698436
88. The Logic of Practice By Pierre Bourdieu. Richard Nice (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/The-Logic-Practice-Pierre-Bourdieu/dp/0804720118
89. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature By: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France) Polity Press, 1993.

http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745609874

90. Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings By Jean Baudrillard. Mark Poster (Editor), Jacques Mourrain (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Baudrillard-Selected-Writings-Edition/dp/0804742731
91. The Foucault Reader By Michel Foucault. Paul Rabinow (Editor). http://www.amazon.com/The-Foucault-Reader-Michel/dp/0394713400
92. Why Government Is the Problem By Milton Friedman. http://www.amazon.com/Government-Problem-Essays-Public-Policy/dp/0817954422/
93. Capitalism and Freedom By Milton Friedman. http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Freedom-Fortieth-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0226264211/
94. The Open Society and Its Enemies By Karl R. Popper. http://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies-One-/dp/0691158134/   
95. The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1 and 2: Reason and the Rationalization of Society By Jürgen Habermas. 1981. http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Communicative-Action-Rationalization-Society/dp/0807015075/
96. The Fashion System. Roland Barthes 1967. http://www.amazon.com/The-Fashion-System-Roland-Barthes/dp/0520071778
97. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion By Peter L. Berger. http://www.amazon.com/The-Sacred-Canopy-Elements-Sociological/dp/0385073054/
98. Legitimation Crisis By Juergen Habermas, Thomas Mccarthy (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Legitimation-Crisis-Juergen-Habermas/dp/0807015210 
99. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge By Jean-Francois Lyotard. Geoff Bennington (Translator), Brian Massumi (Translator), Fredric Jameson (Foreword). http://www.amazon.com/The-Postmodern-Condition-Knowledge-Literature/dp/0816611734
100. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity By Talal Asad. www.amazon.com/Formations-Secular-Christianity-Modernity-Cultural/dp/0804747687/
101. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam By Talal Asad. http://www.amazon.com/Genealogies-Religion-Discipline-Reasons-Christianity/dp/0801846323/  
102. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber by Anthony Giddens. 1973. http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Modern-Social-Theory-Analysis/dp/0521097851/
103. The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration By Anthony Giddens. 1986. http://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Society-Outline-Theory-Structuration/dp/0520057287/ 
104. The Consequences of Modernity By Anthony Giddens. 1991. http://www.amazon.com/Consequences-Modernity-Anthony-Giddens/dp/0804718911/
105. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity By Ulrich Beck. http://www.amazon.com/Risk-Society-Modernity-Published-association/dp/0803983468
106. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia By Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Robert Hurley (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oedipus-Capitalism-Schizophrenia-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143105825/
107. Empire By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Harvard University Press, 2001. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674006713
108. The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology By Dorothy E. Smith. 1987. http://www.amazon.com/The-Everyday-World-Problematic-Northeastern/dp/1555530362
109. Public Religions in the Modern World By Jose Casanova. http://www.amazon.com/Public-Religions-Modern-World-Casanova/dp/0226095355/ 
110. American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization By Neil Smith. University of California Press, 2004. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520243385
111. The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century By Owen Chadwick. http://www.amazon.com/Secularization-European-Nineteenth-Century-original/dp/0521398290/
112. Liquid Modernity By Zygmunt Bauman. http://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Modernity-Zygmunt-Bauman/dp/0745624103/
113. Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty By Zygmunt Bauman. http://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Times-Living-Age-Uncertainty/dp/0745639879/
114. Culture in a Liquid Modern World By Zygmunt Bauman. Lydia Bauman (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Liquid-Modern-Zygmunt-Bauman/dp/0745653553/
115. We Have Never Been Modern By Bruno Latour. http://www.amazon.com/We-Have-Never-Been-Modern/dp/0674948394/
116. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo By Saskia Sassen. http://www.amazon.com/Global-City-York-London-Tokyo/dp/0691070636/
117. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community By Robert D. Putnam. http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046
118. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World By Arturo Escobar. http://www.amazon.com/Encountering-Development-Making-Unmaking-Escobar/dp/B00DIKX27M/
119. Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent, and Revolution By Timothy W. Luke. http://www.amazon.com/Social-Theory-Modernity-Critique-Revolution/dp/0803938616 
120. A Brief History of Neoliberalism By David Harvey Oxford University Press, 2006.  http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199283279.do#.UmB79iQZ9oQ
121. The Plague of Fantasies By Slavoj Zizek. http://www.amazon.com/The-Plague-Fantasies-Essential-Zizek/dp/1844673030/
122. The Sublime Object of Ideology By Slavoj Zizek. http://www.amazon.com/Sublime-Object-Ideology-Essential-Zizek/dp/1844673006/
123. State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben. http://www.amazon.com/State-Exception-Giorgio-Agamben/dp/0226009254/
124. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life By Giorgio Agamben. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translator). http://www.amazon.com/Homo-Sacer-Sovereign-Meridian-Aesthetics/dp/0804732183/  
125. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction By Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Race-Theory-Introduction-University/dp/0814721354/ 
126. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment By Patricia Hill Collins. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Feminist-Thought-Consciousness-Empowerment/dp/0415964725  
127. Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives By Carole Mccann (Editor), Seung-kyung Kim (Editor). http://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Theory-Reader-Global-Perspectives/dp/0415521025/
128. Modernity as Experience and Interpretation By Peter Wagner (Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute) 2008. http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745642192
129. Modernity By Peter Wagner. http://www.amazon.com/Modernity-Peter-Wagner/dp/0745652913/ 
130. Can Non-Europeans Think? By Hamid Dabashi. http://www.amazon.com/Can-Non-Europeans-Think-Hamid-Dabashi/dp/1783604190   
131. Is the American Century Over? Joseph S. Nye, Jr. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745690068.html

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