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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,148 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,040 ratings — published 1961
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,335 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,924 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,805 ratings — published 1989
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,087 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 395 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,090 ratings — published 2009
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,711 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,048 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,624 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,081 ratings — published 1981
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,938 ratings — published 1917
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,859 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,617 ratings — published 2003
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,567 ratings — published 1952
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,303 ratings — published 1957
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,822 ratings — published 1949
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,781 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,422 ratings — published 1887
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,113 ratings — published 1880
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,555 ratings — published 1955
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,671 ratings — published 1961
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 440,084 ratings — published 1972
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 14,254 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,527 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,542 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,081 ratings — published 1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,739 ratings — published 1936
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,270 ratings — published 1947
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 9,989 ratings — published 1997
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,403 ratings — published 1984
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,364 ratings — published 2015
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,647 ratings — published 1966
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,113 ratings — published 1884
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,276 ratings — published 1980
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,841 ratings — published 1988
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 140 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,992 ratings — published 1892
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,015 ratings — published 1900
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,194 ratings — published 1950
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,544 ratings — published 1902
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,346 ratings — published 1957
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,778 ratings — published 1993
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,701 ratings — published 1983
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 386,586 ratings — published 1532
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,814 ratings — published 1847
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,061 ratings — published 1980
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,440 ratings — published 1969
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 140,801 ratings — published 1999
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,233 ratings — published 1989
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,995 ratings — published 2003
“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
