The Big Books of Fall
Genres > Philosophy

Theory

A philosophical theory is a theory that explains or accounts for a general philosophy or specific branch of philosophy. While any sort of thesis or opinion may be termed a theory, in analytic philosophy it is thought best to reserve the word "theory" for systematic, comprehensive attempts to solve problems. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Theory"

Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Magnifica Humanitas: Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
On Women
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
The Crisis of Narration
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
Theory & Practice
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
More most read this week tagged "theory"...

Theory Books

The Communist Manifesto
The Wretched of the Earth
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Orientalism
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The Society of the Spectacle
The State and Revolution
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Women, Race & Class
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Simulacra and Simulation
Black Skin, White Masks
Are Prisons Obsolete?
More theory books...

Lists

America vs. the Overclass by Stephen YoungThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliA VOICE that WILL NOT be SILENCED by Stephen AWOLEYE PhD FCICN CSAThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by Plato
Politics
568 books — 732 voters
Valis by Philip K. DickThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberNightfall and Other Stories by Isaac AsimovFlatterland by Ian StewartThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Paradoxes, Improbabilities and Impossibilities in Fiction Part IV
83 books — 2 voters

Magic for Beginners by Kelly LinkTeatro Grottesco by Thomas LigottiSandkings by George R.R. MartinThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
Paradoxes, Improbabilities and Impossibilities in Fiction Part III
100 books — 1 voter
Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Human Condition by Hannah ArendtZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Thinker's Bookshelf
176 books — 69 voters

Relativity by Albert EinsteinFeminist Theory by bell hooksCowboy Conspiracy Theory by Em PetrovaBang Theory by Lili ValenteA Theory of Justice by John Rawls
Empty Banana "Theory"
120 books — 7 voters
Mind Fields by Julia FultonThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Philosophy Written By Women
232 books — 58 voters


Related Genres

Nonfiction
Philosophy
Phílosophy

Quotes Tagged “Theory”

John Wilmot
“ Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. ”
― John Wilmot
260 likes

Mark Twain
“ How empty is theory in the presence of fact! ”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
33 likes

More quotes...

Videos Tagged “Theory”

Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication
Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication
The Invisible Enemy: Black Fox AudioBook Sample Chapter 9
The Invisible Enemy: Black Fox AudioBook Sample Chapter 9
More videos...

Groups Tagged "Theory"

Leftist Unity Bookshelf A group for anarchists, progressives, communists, and others to come together and discuss valuab…more
242 members, last active 3 months ago
Might as well start a book group because I had no idea this was a thing...
2 members, last active 9 years ago
genieten geblazen BOEK CLUB VAN WIKCIA EN NOUR :D safe space mannen niet toegestaan
2 members, last active 5 years ago
Q&A with Daniel R. Thorne - Neuroeconomics This a group for Q&A about Neuroeconomics: an Applied Information Theory with its author, Daniel…more
7 members, last active 6 years ago