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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,751 ratings — published 1955
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,708 ratings — published 1976
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,602 ratings — published 1981
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,508 ratings — published 1975
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,499 ratings — published 1978
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,772 ratings — published 1983
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,520 ratings — published 1967
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,748 ratings — published 1972
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,051 ratings — published 1961
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,620 ratings — published 1991
The Practice of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,060 ratings — published 1980
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,702 ratings — published 1957
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,173 ratings — published 1980
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,005 ratings — published 1966
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,117 ratings — published 1972
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,249 ratings — published 1980
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,668 ratings — published 1952
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,673 ratings — published 1957
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,416 ratings — published 1994
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,972 ratings — published 1993
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,013 ratings — published 1961
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,496 ratings — published 1947
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,058 ratings — published 1983
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,501 ratings — published 2015
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,050 ratings — published 2016
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,628 ratings — published 2003
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,501 ratings — published 1871
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,966 ratings — published 2011
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,415 ratings — published 1967
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,820 ratings — published 1936
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,132 ratings — published 1982
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 739 ratings — published 2002
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,203 ratings — published 1979
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,789 ratings — published 1973
We Have Never Been Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,756 ratings — published 1991
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,741 ratings — published 1985
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.60 — 900 ratings — published 1997
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 404 ratings — published 2014
Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,329 ratings — published 2016
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,767 ratings — published 1984
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,577 ratings — published 1989
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 15,814 ratings — published 2004
The Laugh of the Medusa
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,751 ratings — published 1975
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,466 ratings — published 2009
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 878 ratings — published 2004
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,372 ratings — published 2011
Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,329 ratings — published 1990
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,108 ratings — published 1971
Proust (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,017 ratings — published 1931
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,762 ratings — published 1990