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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 558 times as theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 211,949 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,388 ratings — published 1961
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,763 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,855 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,685 ratings — published 1989
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,714 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,046 ratings — published 2009
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,688 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,709 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,318 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,162 ratings — published 1981
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,062 ratings — published 1917
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,705 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,872 ratings — published 1952
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,305 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,769 ratings — published 1957
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,170 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 15,277 ratings — published 1867
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,688 ratings — published 1949
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 16,104 ratings — published 2004
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,907 ratings — published 1880
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,061 ratings — published 1961
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 461,667 ratings — published 1972
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,785 ratings — published 1955
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,120 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,629 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,271 ratings — published 1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,010 ratings — published 1936
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,643 ratings — published 1997
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,532 ratings — published 1947
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,464 ratings — published 1900
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,922 ratings — published 2015
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,814 ratings — published 1966
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,950 ratings — published 1984
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,875 ratings — published
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,134 ratings — published 1902
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,705 ratings — published 1884
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,818 ratings — published 1988
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 147 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,548 ratings — published 1892
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 82,266 ratings — published 1980
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,745 ratings — published 1957
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,204 ratings — published 1980
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 135 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,589 ratings — published 1847
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,569 ratings — published 1969
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,782 ratings — published 1983
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,919 ratings — published 2003
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,450 ratings — published 1989
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 403,864 ratings — published 1513
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,859 ratings — published 1993
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 156,463 ratings — published 1999
“Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
