Theory

A philosophical theory is a theory that explains or accounts for a general philosophy or specific branch of philosophy. While any sort of thesis or opinion may be termed a theory, in analytic philosophy it is thought best to reserve the word "theory" for systematic, comprehensive attempts to solve problems. ...more

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
On Women
The Crisis of Narration
Theory & Practice
Against Progress (Žižek's Essays)
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
The Communist Manifesto
The Wretched of the Earth
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Orientalism
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The Society of the Spectacle
The State and Revolution
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Women, Race & Class
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Simulacra and Simulation
Black Skin, White Masks
Are Prisons Obsolete?
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun by Raicho HiratsukaThe Birth of Chinese Feminism by He ZhenAzaleas by Kim SowolThe Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama by Xiaomei ChenLost Souls by Hwang Sun-won
Weatherhead Books on Asia
41 books — 12 voters
Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Human Condition by Hannah ArendtZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Thinker's Bookshelf
176 books — 69 voters

Sex Equality by Catharine A. MacKinnonToward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnonDefending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. SheehyFeminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnonWomen's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Feminism and the law
52 books — 7 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by PlatoHonor and Polygamy by Omar FarhadPolitics by Aristotle
Politics
512 books — 535 voters

When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond by Linwood NormanThe Historian's Craft by Marc BlochPracticing History by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Histories by HerodotusThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Best Books on Historical Theory
66 books — 32 voters
Leftover Women by Leta Hong FincherThe Birth of Chinese Feminism by He ZhenPirate Queens by Leigh  LewisMistletoe by Richard K. AlisonBetraying Big Brother by Leta Hong Fincher
Feminism in China
15 books — 4 voters


Madeleine L'Engle
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

Agatha Christie
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." "Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant. ...more
Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

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Impactful guitar books on theory and technique
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The Solidarity Circle A book club to unite fiction lovers & make theory accessible for everyone, created by Reena and …more
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