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Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason. (Where many would say it all begins... in the beautiful new Wood translation, hardbound Cambridge Edition that has even us old dogs slobbering. Or, for my fellow frugal Scotsmen, the trusty ol' Kemp-Smith translation)

Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit. (Others say it all begins here, in the broadening-out into history of the Kantian analysis of consciousness. I think it begins somewhere between Kant and Hegel...)

Fichte, The Science of Knowledge. (...Fichte *is* between Kant and Hegel... As is Holderlin:)

Holderlin, Essays And Letters on Theory (Amazing, also check out his Hymns and Fragments and Hyperion and Selected Poems -- or best yet, the massive Poems and Fragments, which contains a translation of his Empedocles. This last one is hard to find; it's publiched in England -- try Barnes &Noble?).

The Marx-Engels Reader (Tucker, ed.).

Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche (Kaufmann, ed.). The most buy for your intellectual buck. Includes full text of Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist; Nietzsche Contra Wagner; with many other selections, including the superhistorical nihilism and well-sublimated sexuality of "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense".

Nietzsche, The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs.

Nietzsche, The Will to Power. (I won't bore you with a bunch of caveats about its unpublished status and political history, suffice to say that however controversial its textual status, anyone serious about Nietzsche has to contend with this mental minefield.)

A Kierkegaard Anthology (Bretall, ed.) (A little bit of just about everything Soren left us.)

Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. (Try it, it works...)

Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology.

*Heidegger, Being and Time. (Standard M&R translation; see also Stambaugh's New translation of Being and Time, with Heidegger's marginalia inside and nifty illegible Heidegger poem on the front cover). --This is it; Heidegger's early magnum opus (see my "Heidegger snapshot" on my homepage)

Heidegger, Poetry, Language, and Thought.

Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology (and Other Essays).

*Sartre, Being and Nothingness (may have ignored Heidegger's break with Cartesianism, but the phenomenological descriptions alone are well worth the price of admission.)

*Levinas, Time and the Other (Start here for Levinas--a great and groundbreaking book)

(Notice a pattern int he previous three titles marked with a '*'?)

Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity. (Dense and profound.)

Foucault, The Essential Works of Foucault, Vol. 1: Ethics (Rabinow, ed. Beautiful hardbound edition--great essays)

Foucault, The Essential Works of Foucault, Vol. 2: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (ditto)

Derrida, Of Grammatology. (Not for the hermeneutically faint of heart...)

Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles -- along with The Ear of the Other -- Derrida's two great texts on Nietzsche.

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations. [Arendt intro., includes the provacative "Theses on the Philosophy of History".]

Arendt, The Human Condition (Hannah's Heideggerian ethics.)

Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlighenment. A classic of critical spleen.

Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization. (The ideal missing from Hork & Ad's spleen!)

Marcuse, Technology, War, and Fascism (Volume 1 of 6 of the Collected Papers of Marcuse; those familiar only with images of the (grand)father of the New Left must see the cover photo!)

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle. (Arguably the most relevant critical text of the last 30 years--get your 3-D glasses ready...)

The Situationist International Anthology, Ken Knabb, ed (Great collection of Situationist texts--see my homepage for details. Note that you could just copy this book--it has no copyright--indeed, someone could put it on-line! You call it plagiarism, the S. I., detournement)

Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. (One of the texts to achieve fame out of the student/worker shutdown of Paris in May 68.)

Jacques Lacan, Ecrits. (Forget libido, Lacan replaces Freud's hydraulic modernist model of mental energy with a Heideggerian language-based model. Fascinating, obscure, sometimes obscurantist...)

Jean Baudrillard, America. (Gotta love it; we need an alienated American in France to return the favor!)

Nietzsche, Unfashionable Observations (Vol 2 of the Collected Works editions of Nietzsche in English--with critical apparatus... see also new books below.)

Heidegger, On the Way to Language. (Great--later Heidegger on language)

Heidegger, Parmenides. (One of the later Heidegger's most important lectures, now available in paperback as well.)

Heidegger, Nietzsche Vol 1&2 and Vol 3&4. (Earthshattering--for me it all starts here.)

Heidegger, Pathmarks. (A collection of many important essays.)

Adorno, Minima Moralia. Adorno's major solo text, reveals his mastery.

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings: Volume 1 (1913-1926); an important text--we are still awaiting volume 2...

Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible. [MP's last, unfinished text--intriguing, difficult.]

Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation. (Straight talk from an aging master, moves well beyond the nihilism of 1-Dimensional Man, another classic)

Juergen Habemas, Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics. (My fvorite Habermas, a critical conversation with Marcuse and the politics of the New Left.)

Pierre Bourdieu, In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology (great intro, esp. ch 3 & 8)

Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories. (My favorite Baudrillard--a temporarily mellow fellow...)

Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime. (Baudrillard's Heideggerianism shines through here--the prefect crime is "the murder of reality," its smothering beneath the triumph of the simulacra--what else?)

Edmond Jabes, The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion. (Orphic, brilliant poetry.)

Paul Virilio, Open Sky. ("One day the day will come when the day will not come.." The rumor is out: Virilio is a cyborg.)

Jacques Derrida, Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International. Derrida finally addresses the Marxist legacy, a great book (I am not crazy about the quality of the binding on the paperback--you might want to spring for the hardbound edition).

Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death. (Perhaps my second favorite of Derrida's books.)

Jacques Derrida, Aporias. (A dense but brilliant later-Heidegger influenced deconstructive reading of Heidegger's Being and Time. Well worth the struggle.) I have an essay coming out in Philosophy Today explaining this one...

Jacques Derrida, Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money. (My favorite--amazing stuff.)

Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion. [A Heidegger-inspired meditation on death...or on 'living-on.']

Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, 1959-1960). Intriguing; Lacan's ethics are not what you might expect...

Emmanuel Levinas, Proper Names. [Essays on Blanchot, Buber, Celan, Derrida, Jabes, Kierkegaard, Wahl, and others.]

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Political Writings. [The essay on Heidegger is particularly provocative.]

Antonin Artaud, The Artaud Anthology (splendid madness).

Hubert Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I. [Twenty-five years in the making, likely to remain the best introduction to Heidegger for a long time to come.]

Wayne Martin, Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte's Jena Project (clear and informative)

Jean Wahl, A Short History of Existentialism. [Out-of-print, but worth looking for; includes a round-table discussion at the end with Levinas and Gabriel Marcel.]

Alexandre Kojeve, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (this is the beginning of the "end of history"--great on the master/slave dialectic as struggle to the death...)

Ruediger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil. [The most readable Heidegger biography to date; very entertaining, but see also Hugo Ott, Martin Heidegger: A Political Life.]

Levinas, Basic Philosophical Writings (A selection of essays, an Excellent Intro.)

Slavoj Zizek, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture. [A great read, does exactly what its title promises. The best discussion / evocation of 'the Real' I've read.]

Rudinesco, Jacques Lacan (the most authoratative bio to date; doesn't slobber so much on the Master's toes--many an entertaining anecdote--including, for the Heideggerians, an icidental, posthumous 'outing' of Jean Beufret...)

Derrida and Bennington, Jacques Derrida (Probably the best intro. to Derrida, and includes Derrida's tragic and beautiful autobiographical text, "Circumfessions.")

Jacques Derrida, Points... Interviews, 1974-1994. [For the uniniated at least, Derrida is much clearer in conversation than in writing.]

Otfried Hoeffe, Immanuel Kant. [A great intro to the three Critiques.]

Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923-1950.

Richard Wolin, Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetics of Redemption. [Wolin's masterful Jugenschrift on Benjamin set the tone for many of the debates that followed, see also Wolin's excellent edited volume on Heidegger's "politics," The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader]

Kerry Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of an Existential Politics. (An important secondary work, largely overlooked thus far.)

Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age. [A wonderful book. Traces the lineage of situationism through dada and surrealism. If you like this book, try Grail Marcus's Lipstick Traces, which concvincingly traces Punk back to Siuationism.]

David Krell, The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image. [A great introductory read and an Incredibly beautiful coffee table book to boot.]

Henry Allison, Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense (the benchmark).

Robert Pippin, Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness.

Reiner Schuermann, Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy. (An amazing text, eye-opening!)

Otto Poeggeler, Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking.

Frederick Olafson, Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind.

Willian D. Blattner, Heidegger's Temporal Idealism (picks up in B&T where Dreyfus leaves off).

Fred Neuhouser, Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity.

Alastair Hannay, Kierkegaard.

The Interpretive Turn: Philosophy, Science, Culture. (Hilely, Bohman, and Schusterman, eds.)

Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (Feenberg and Hannay, eds.)

On Heidegger:

Heidegger: A Critical Reader (Dreyfus and Hall, eds).

The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, Guignon, ed.

Reading Heidegger: Commemorations (Sallis, ed).

Spinosa, Flores, Dreyfus, Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Demoncratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity. (Brilliant cultural phenomenology -- a very important recent work -- Now in paperback!)

Edith Wyschogrod, Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death. (Deep & moving, quietly clarifies Levinas's Rilkean roots.)

Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit: Reasoning, Representation, and Discursive Commitment (in this ambitious and impressive tome -- 741 pps -- Brandom develops an "expressivist" philosophy of language of the kind Heidegger began to articulate in Being and Time, as a challenge to the phenomenologically implausible metaphysical presuppositions of representationalism). Now in paperback too.

Ermanno Bencivenga, A Theory of Language and Mind (a Nietzschean shotgun blast, wryly parodying Wittgenstein's Tractatus).

Lyotard, Pacific Wall (trust me; this one is better as a surprise, or more precisely, a shock or series of shocks!).

Olafson, Heidegger and the Ground of Ethics. (An old master's return--30 years later--to his area of expertise.)

Frank and Weilend, eds., Commodify your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler (a must have for the culture critic)

Pierre Bourdieu, On Television ('the drug of the Nation, feeding ignorance and breeding radiation...')

Jacques Derrida and Paul Thevenin, The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud (a beautiful book, includes a 100 page essay by Derrida, cool photos of Artaud).

NEW:

The extremely impressive 2-volume Festschrift for Bert Dreyfus is here! Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 1: Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity (or in paperback). Volume II: Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (or in paperback).

It's finally arrived! -- THE L O N G (50 years!!) AWAITED TRANSLATION OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER'S BEITRAEGE, THE FAMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY: ON ENOWNMENT, translated by Maly and Emad (a masterful team -- and quite a challenge).

Death and Philosophy, Edited by Jeff Malpas and Robert Solomon (collected esays on the philosophical significance of death -- one of my own obsessions).

Philosophy and Tragedy, edited by Miguel de Beistegui (collects essays by Lacoue-Labarth, Krell, Gasche, Will McNeill, and others, on Hegel, Hoelderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin).

Jean LaPlanche, Essays on Otherness (translates a selection of the work of this major post-Lacanian psychoanalytic theorist).

Questioning Ethics: Debates in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, edited by Richard Kearney and Mark Dooley (a discussion of important contemporary ethical issues by Apel, Caputo, Critchley, Derrida, Habermas, Kristeva, MacIntyre, Rasmussen, Richardson, Ricouer, David Wood and others).

God, The Gift, and Postmodernism, edited by Caputo and Scanlon (contains 'debate' between Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on Being and negative theology).

Martin Heideger, Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity (1923 lectures, translated by the noted "young Heideggerian" john van Buren).

Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx. Presents critical readings of Derrida's wonderful Spectres of Marx by Eagleton, Jameson, Negri, and others, with Derrida's fascinating response to these essays (and to Spivak's earlier critique), in an essay called "Marx & Sons" (pp.213-70).

Pierre Keller, Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience. One of two books Keller has just published on Cambridge (see also his new book on Kant); H&H on HE looks to relate Heidegger to so-called 'anaytic' concerns in a very interesting way.

Giogio Agamben, The Man Without Content (continental aesthetic history from an emerging Italian master).

Jacques Derrida, Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas ("Go To God," I was lucky enough to read some of this in draft form -- an amazing commemoration and touching philosophical farewell.)

Jacques Derrida, Right to Inspection (Derrida's philosophical interpretations of a photo-graphic essay -- very absorbing).

Luce Irigaray, The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger (in paper or in Hardbound, a translation that, after her amazing Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche, I've been looking forward to!)

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-too-Human (the Complete works edition with critical notes, based on the famous Colli and Montinari editions) and coming soon: Nietzsche's Unpublished Writings from the Period of 'Unfashionable Observations' (the title says it all, this is a translation of the Complete Works volume of Nietzsche's unpublished early works, like the brilliant "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense," from the period of the Unfashionable Observations -- AKA Untimely Meditations -- circa 1873.)

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings Volume 2, 1927-34 (is finally available, fascinating and provocative, as usual. The significantly thinner Selected Writings Volume I, 1913-26 is also a must-have, IMHO).

Maurice Blanchot, The Station Hill Blanchot Reader (contains selections from the famous literary essays in The Gaze of Orpheus and from Paul Auster's out-of-print translations as well as the entire texts of Thomas the Obscure, Death Sentence, "The Madness of the Day," When the Time Comes, and The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me -- an amazing deal !!)

Andrew Feenberg, Questioning Technology (Feenberg's new book on the critical theory of technology, pursues a Macusean immanent critique of Heidegger -- very interesting! My Heideggerian critique and Feenberg's response are forthcoming in Inquiry -- keep an eye out.)

Herbert Marcuse, Technology, War, Fascism (This is volume 1 of the the 6 volume collected papers in English. A Beautiful edition! The powerful analysis of Nazi Germany -- which Marcuse wrote while working for the OSS -- and his prescient critiques of technology prove the continuing power of Marcuse's thinking for addressing contemporary socio-political problems. I couldn't put it down, and can't recommend it highly enough.)

Derrida and Vattimo (editors and major contributors, with a response from Gadamer), Religion. Here Derrida's "Faith and Knowledge: the Two Sources of 'Religion' at the Limits of Reason Alone" sets the stage for his most recent neo-religious semi-autobiographical exploration, Monolingualism of the Other; Or: The Prosthesis of Origin (a difficult but interesting text addresssing themes of alterity and multiculturalism). See also his RESISTANCES of Psychoanalysis (Derrida's return to Foucault!, plus essays on Freud and Lacan.)

From the increasingly impressive Meridian series from Stanford, FRIENDSHIP, a collection of 29 essays from Maurice Blanchot (including: "Marx's Three Voices," "The Apocalypse is Disappointing," "War and Literature," "The Ease of Dying," "The Very Last Word," and "Friendship").

For yourself or your favorite "Postal" (as in, "s/he's about to go Postal!"), a highly amusing (and slighly terrifying) collection of postmodern koans (or is it an ironic self-deconstruction of postmodernism?): LIFE's Little DeCONstruction Book. Check it out.

Simon Sadler, The Situationist City (an in-depth introduction to Situationist idea(l)s for refashioning the social space).

Marcel Detienne, The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece (Detienne's first work, an extension and immanent critique of Heidegger's understanding of truth as A-letheia).

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmoden Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (The follow up the "The Sokal Hoax." Interesting critique; definintely merits a more philosophically informed response...)

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 2: 1927-1934 (finally!)

The Zizek Reader (a very nice intro. to Zizek's entertaining and enlightening work, in paperback soon); see also Zizek's newest, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Wo ES War) (an immanent critique of Heideggeian pomo politics) and The Plague of Fantasies (wild, provocative, a bit nutty perhaps).

Christina Howells, Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics (paperback in Oct 99).

Herman Philippe, Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical Investigation (I haven't read this oene yet, but amazingly the cover shot of the old Heidegger was featured prominently on the cover of Princeton's Winter Philosophy Book Catalogue).

Drew Leder, Getting out of Prison: Tales from Maximum Security (Intriguing -- Inmates on lockdown conceptualize their experience in terms developed by Foucault, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and others).

Richard Polt, Heidegger: An Introduction (Looks very promising!! -- See my review of this book, forthcoming in The Philosophers' Magazine).

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (the most famous text by the controversial Nazi opportunist; the state needs an enemy...).

Heidegger Toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s, Ed. James Risser. A fascinating and important topic -- I am looking forward to checking it out.

Heidegger, Essence of Truth -- The Nature of Death (intriguing!).

Other great new books and misc.:

Alexander Alberro, Conceptual Art: An Anthology (a great collection from some Whitney Program grads).

Jorge Luis BORGES, Collected Fictions (All the short stories, finally collected in one place! Amazing and thought-provoking).

Maurice Blanchot, Death Sentence (A long out-of-print classic finally re-issued!!)

Or check out Daniel Goldhagen's controverial Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham), I See A Darkness (from one of the pallace brothers).

PE, There's a Poison Goin' On. (Sorry, Snoop)

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