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Critical Theory Books
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,224 ratings — published 1947
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,199 ratings — published 2009
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,004 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,679 ratings — published 1976
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,470 ratings — published 1967
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,194 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,501 ratings — published 1955
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,580 ratings — published 1964
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,587 ratings — published 1989
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,254 ratings — published 1968
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,655 ratings — published 1981
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,774 ratings — published 1951
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,708 ratings — published 1978
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,709 ratings — published 1972
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,832 ratings — published 1944
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,173 ratings — published 1989
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 63 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,924 ratings — published 2017
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,519 ratings — published 1991
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,482 ratings — published 1961
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,048 ratings — published 1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,565 ratings — published 1936
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,196 ratings — published 1952
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 198,490 ratings — published 1848
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,607 ratings — published 1966
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,579 ratings — published 1961
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,919 ratings — published 1967
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,847 ratings — published 1979
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,324 ratings — published 1977
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,023 ratings — published 1994
Negative Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,942 ratings — published 1966
Specters of Marx (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,813 ratings — published 1993
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,352 ratings — published 1967
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,685 ratings — published 1923
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,396 ratings — published 1949
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,603 ratings — published 1970
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,194 ratings — published 1962
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,418 ratings — published 1969
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,545 ratings — published 1984
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,388 ratings — published 1983
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,819 ratings — published 1977
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,147 ratings — published 1981
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,129 ratings — published 1941
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,816 ratings — published 1993
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,761 ratings — published 1993
Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 44,613 ratings — published 1930
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,907 ratings — published 1994
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,446 ratings — published 2007
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,226 ratings — published 1887
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,776 ratings — published 2014
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,267 ratings — published 1947
“By creating a false distinction between "good" and "bad" forms of animal exploitation and violence, the animal industry has convinced the public that there is nothing wrong with animal agriculture, per se, only with the way it is practiced. However, it isn't just the animal industry that has a stake in this. Capitalists and consumers, conservatives and liberals, small-scale farmers and corporate industrial farms alike all wish to re-"naturalize" animal husbandry as a permanent, benignant fixture of the human condition. The new hoax of "humane" meat is thus a convenience for all, a way to neutralize animal advocacy and to fend off the bad conscience of society." - The Humane Hoax”
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“Both the client and therapist are not primarily seen as human persons in relation to each other and the socio-cultural world around them. Instead, they are viewed as defined by their intersecting group identities and, importantly, the differences and inequalities these identities create. Dynamics of oppression are at the heart of the CSJ-driven therapy relationship.”
― Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
― Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
