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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,691 ratings — published 1955
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,512 ratings — published 1976
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,361 ratings — published 1981
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,114 ratings — published 1975
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,106 ratings — published 1978
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,752 ratings — published 1983
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,301 ratings — published 1967
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 451,541 ratings — published 1972
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,514 ratings — published 1961
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,599 ratings — published 1991
The Practice of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,048 ratings — published 1980
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,585 ratings — published 1957
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,147 ratings — published 1980
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,834 ratings — published 1966
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,019 ratings — published 1972
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,203 ratings — published 1980
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,343 ratings — published 1952
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,560 ratings — published 1957
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,412 ratings — published 1994
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,933 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 — 14,921 ratings — published 1961
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,431 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 — 16,920 ratings — published 1983
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,057 ratings — published 2015
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,921 ratings — published 2016
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,186 ratings — published 2003
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,200 ratings — published 1871
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,951 ratings — published 2011
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,397 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 — 25,174 ratings — published 1936
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,113 ratings — published 1982
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 729 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 — 4,189 ratings — published 1979
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,781 ratings — published 1973
We Have Never Been Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,724 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 — 1,721 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 — 892 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 — 403 ratings — published 2014
Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,284 ratings — published 2016
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,396 ratings — published 1984
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,382 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 — 15,326 ratings — published 2004
The Laugh of the Medusa
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,664 ratings — published 1975
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,497 ratings — published 2009
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 876 ratings — published 2004
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,342 ratings — published 2011
Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,324 ratings — published 1990
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,091 ratings — published 1971
Proust (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as criticism-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,007 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 — 3,737 ratings — published 1990