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
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
On Women
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
Theory & Practice
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
The Crisis of Narration
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
Against Progress (Žižek's Essays)
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
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?
Mind Fields by Julia FultonThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Philosophy Written By Women
229 books — 61 voters
Descent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John  CorbettFolk-Lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
178 books — 2 voters

Relativity by Albert EinsteinFeminist Theory by bell hooksCowboy Conspiracy Theory by Em PetrovaBang Theory by Lili ValenteA Theory of Justice by John Rawls
Empty Banana "Theory"
119 books — 6 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
465 books — 108 voters


John Rawls
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a gr ...more
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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