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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 197,514 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,233 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,601 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,893 ratings — published 1975
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,528 ratings — published 1989
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,904 ratings — published 2009
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,596 ratings — published 1978
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,393 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,555 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,122 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,435 ratings — published 1981
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,480 ratings — published 1917
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,571 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,991 ratings — published 2003
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,097 ratings — published 1952
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,148 ratings — published 1957
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,268 ratings — published 1949
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,667 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,173 ratings — published 1887
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,866 ratings — published 1880
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,476 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 — 14,545 ratings — published 1961
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 435,155 ratings — published 1972
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,756 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,334 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 — 7,033 ratings — published 1980
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,197 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 — 24,485 ratings — published 1936
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,862 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 — 35,555 ratings — published 2015
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,597 ratings — published 1966
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,324 ratings — published 1997
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,670 ratings — published 1980
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,370 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,942 ratings — published 1884
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,813 ratings — published 1892
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,898 ratings — published 1900
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,754 ratings — published 1993
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,191 ratings — published 1957
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,923 ratings — published 1950
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,669 ratings — published 1983
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,412 ratings — published 1969
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,213 ratings — published 1902
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,007 ratings — published 1980
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 382,480 ratings — published 1532
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,147 ratings — published 1989
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 135,165 ratings — published 1999
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,492 ratings — published 1987
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 120 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,540 ratings — published 1847
“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”
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