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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 197,138 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 454 times as theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,185 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,576 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,498 ratings — published 1989
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,848 ratings — published 1975
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,810 ratings — published 2009
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,571 ratings — published 1978
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,363 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,495 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,078 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,398 ratings — published 1981
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,450 ratings — published 1917
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,546 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,967 ratings — published 2003
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,050 ratings — published 1952
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,136 ratings — published 1957
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,205 ratings — published 1949
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,665 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,148 ratings — published 1887
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,837 ratings — published 1880
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,471 ratings — published 1955
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,535 ratings — published 1961
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 434,755 ratings — published 1972
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,723 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,322 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,512 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,031 ratings — published 1980
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,190 ratings — published 1947
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,462 ratings — published 1936
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,840 ratings — published 1984
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,515 ratings — published 2015
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,282 ratings — published 1997
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,592 ratings — published 1966
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,345 ratings — published 1988
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,612 ratings — published 1980
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,922 ratings — published 1884
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,807 ratings — published 1892
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,886 ratings — published 1900
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,752 ratings — published 1993
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,176 ratings — published 1957
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,665 ratings — published 1983
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,895 ratings — published 1950
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,407 ratings — published 1969
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,195 ratings — published 1902
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,002 ratings — published 1980
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 382,067 ratings — published 1532
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,143 ratings — published 1989
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 121 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,519 ratings — published 1847
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 134,722 ratings — published 1999
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,485 ratings — published 1987
“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.”
― Death on the Nile
"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.”
― Death on the Nile
“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
