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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,360 ratings — published 1947
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,281 ratings — published 2009
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,720 ratings — published 1975
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,723 ratings — published 1964
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,978 ratings — published 1967
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,627 ratings — published 1955
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,231 ratings — published 1976
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,424 ratings — published 1957
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,134 ratings — published 1968
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,102 ratings — published 1989
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,101 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,589 ratings — published 1978
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,889 ratings — published 1972
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,849 ratings — published 1951
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,883 ratings — published 1944
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,570 ratings — published 1991
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,763 ratings — published 1961
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,299 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 — 16,685 ratings — published 2017
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,962 ratings — published 1936
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,133 ratings — published 1980
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,965 ratings — published 1952
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 204,198 ratings — published 1848
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,692 ratings — published 1966
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,789 ratings — published 1961
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,937 ratings — published 1967
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,901 ratings — published 1979
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,338 ratings — published 1977
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 14,749 ratings — published 2004
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,061 ratings — published 1994
Negative Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,961 ratings — published 1966
Specters of Marx (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,851 ratings — published 1993
Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
by (shelved 38 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,206 ratings — published 2016
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,416 ratings — published 1949
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,730 ratings — published 1923
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,375 ratings — published 1967
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,297 ratings — published 1994
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,486 ratings — published 1941
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,589 ratings — published 1984
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,724 ratings — published 1983
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,322 ratings — published 1947
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,620 ratings — published 1970
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,647 ratings — published 2010
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 — 2,210 ratings — published 1962
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,804 ratings — published 1993
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,165 ratings — published 1981
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,049 ratings — published 2014
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,480 ratings — published 1969
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,523 ratings — published 2007
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,823 ratings — published 1977
“A core tenet of CSJ is that emotional harm is comparable to physical harm; when you cause someone to feel a negative emotion, you are causing harm to that individual. Any level of discomfort is considered harmful and, in some cases, the equivalent of violence.”
― Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
― Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
“Ideen som samlet medlemmen av Frankfurterskolen, og som ga den nymarxistiske tradisjonen et distinkte preg, var at samfunnsanalyser per definisjon skal være kritiske, at de aldri må forsvare det bestående.”
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