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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,270 ratings — published 1947
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,004 ratings — published 2009
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,310 ratings — published 1975
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,688 ratings — published 1967
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,895 ratings — published 1976
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,550 ratings — published 1955
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,644 ratings — published 1964
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,295 ratings — published 1957
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,785 ratings — published 1989
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,593 ratings — published 1968
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,831 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 30,045 ratings — published 1978
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,807 ratings — published 1951
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,778 ratings — published 1972
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,866 ratings — published 1944
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,227 ratings — published 1989
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,578 ratings — published 2017
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,539 ratings — published 1991
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,995 ratings — published 1961
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,715 ratings — published 1936
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,079 ratings — published 1980
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,519 ratings — published 1952
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 200,906 ratings — published 1848
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,640 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 — 14,661 ratings — published 1961
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,923 ratings — published 1967
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,331 ratings — published 1977
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,864 ratings — published 1979
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,036 ratings — published 1994
Negative Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,946 ratings — published 1966
Specters of Marx (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,831 ratings — published 1993
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,782 ratings — published 1949
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,363 ratings — published 1967
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,705 ratings — published 1923
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,565 ratings — published 1984
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,610 ratings — published 1970
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,287 ratings — published 1941
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 14,220 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,509 ratings — published 1983
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,080 ratings — published 1994
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,196 ratings — published 1962
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,778 ratings — published 1993
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,441 ratings — published 1969
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,482 ratings — published 2007
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,292 ratings — published 1947
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,819 ratings — published 1977
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,152 ratings — published 1981
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,896 ratings — published 2014
Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 44,934 ratings — published 1930
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,850 ratings — published 1993
“Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.”
― Introduction to Sociology
― Introduction to Sociology
“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do anything. If you don't feel that as one tension in the work that you are doing, theory has let you off the hook.”
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