Aporia in the West
Explore the crisis of Western thought with our curated reading list on aporia. From Baudrillard's *Simulacra and Simulation* to Hayek's *The Road to Serfdom*, delve into philosophy, politics, and history's unresolved questions.
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The Pursuit of the Millennium
by Norman Cohn
This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in Western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries.
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Simulacra and Simulation
by Jean Baudrillard
Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
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The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich August Hayek
Examines the relationship between individual liberty and government authority, and argues that granting government control of the economy leads to disaster