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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,133 ratings — published 1947
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,215 ratings — published 2009
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,617 ratings — published 1975
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,202 ratings — published 1967
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,430 ratings — published 1976
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,422 ratings — published 1955
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,078 ratings — published 1957
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,358 ratings — published 1989
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,508 ratings — published 1964
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,803 ratings — published 1968
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,431 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,317 ratings — published 1978
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,609 ratings — published 1972
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,731 ratings — published 1951
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,782 ratings — published 1944
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,098 ratings — published 1989
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,501 ratings — published 1991
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,826 ratings — published 1961
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,997 ratings — published 1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,333 ratings — published 1936
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,869 ratings — published 1952
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,563 ratings — published 1966
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,462 ratings — published 1961
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,910 ratings — published 1967
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,318 ratings — published 1977
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,789 ratings — published 1979
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 195,217 ratings — published 1848
Negative Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,927 ratings — published 1966
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,983 ratings — published 1994
Specters of Marx (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,797 ratings — published 1993
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,332 ratings — published 1967
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,671 ratings — published 1923
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,590 ratings — published 1970
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,182 ratings — published 1962
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,511 ratings — published 1984
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,936 ratings — published 1949
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,229 ratings — published 1983
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,808 ratings — published 1977
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,142 ratings — published 1981
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,387 ratings — published 1969
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,765 ratings — published 1993
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,944 ratings — published 1941
Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 44,236 ratings — published 1930
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 12,703 ratings — published 1994
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,737 ratings — published 1993
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,410 ratings — published 2007
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,016 ratings — published 1887
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,638 ratings — published 2014
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,248 ratings — published 1947
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,103 ratings — published 2010
“By creating a false distinction between "good" and "bad" forms of animal exploitation and violence, the animal industry has convinced the public that there is nothing wrong with animal agriculture, per se, only with the way it is practiced. However, it isn't just the animal industry that has a stake in this. Capitalists and consumers, conservatives and liberals, small-scale farmers and corporate industrial farms alike all wish to re-"naturalize" animal husbandry as a permanent, benignant fixture of the human condition. The new hoax of "humane" meat is thus a convenience for all, a way to neutralize animal advocacy and to fend off the bad conscience of society." - The Humane Hoax”
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“The material and ethical assertions of [Critical Social Justice] CSJ are controversial. Most people with apparently oppressed identities don’t think about the world through this ideological lens—it is an artifact of academia.”
― Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
― Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
