ITT: Second half 20th century thinkers who are actually worth a damn.

>>8328488

yeah, thats pretty much it.

Okay, can we please stop this. This is the kinda shit that's making /lit/ trash. Everyone's going to come out, name drop, dish out some half-assed arguements, and then run, and OP will not be left with the coherent "guide to becoming smarter" that he's expecting. So, please, if this is a genuine question, guide the discussion. Let's talk about a few books and give some illuminating responses. And by a few books I think we all know I really mean Hardt and Negri's Empire and the complete Foucault ouvre.

>>8328504

>foucault
>ever

>>8328488

How do I get into Habermas, I need some essays or something. What are his essentials?

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>>8328488
William Gass' essays are some of the finest ever written.

>>8329042
How is McElroy's nonfiction? Based on his fiction, I'd imagine it's somewhat unhinged.

>>8328534

Legitimation Crisis is one of the greatest books of social theory. Not exactly a fun read, but very astute and insightful. His public sphere work, which everyone seems to fawn over isn't that good IMO. Elizabeth Eisenstein's book on early print culture, with a focus on the print shop, is better.

>>8328504
you must be somewhat new here, one cannot save /lit/.

>>8328488
Should not have wasted his time with the silly historian's quarrel though.

https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates

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>>8328488
Implying the Elmo of critical theory is top shelf material.

'muh public sphere, muh one track liberalism'

>>8329081
Very difficult... supposedly he's been working on a non-fiction book on water for like ten years and it will be released soon. check his twitter, weird shit

>>8329042
notice the Suttree first edition next to his head on the left

>>8329261
I heard about that. Some of the tweets are almost Land-tier in their strangeness, which means one of three things to me--he's legitimately insane; he is so incredibly genius that he just seems insane; or he is so genius that he IS insane. Based on Cannonball and Women and Men, I'm pretty sure the last one is the case.

all the ones that worked in a marxist tradition

deleuze, foucault, habermas, Bernard Stiegler

the list could go on

>>8328488
Judith Butler