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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 192,748 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,322 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,247 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,099 ratings — published 1989
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,250 ratings — published 1975
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,984 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,329 ratings — published 2009
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,963 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,938 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,406 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,709 ratings — published 1981
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,234 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,344 ratings — published 2003
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,615 ratings — published 1952
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,880 ratings — published 1917
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,962 ratings — published 1957
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,503 ratings — published 1972
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,499 ratings — published 1949
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,796 ratings — published 1887
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,367 ratings — published 1955
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,594 ratings — published 1880
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,351 ratings — published 1961
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,152 ratings — published 2004
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 426,423 ratings — published 1972
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,083 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,483 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,953 ratings — published 1980
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,085 ratings — published 1947
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,139 ratings — published 1936
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,283 ratings — published 1984
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,703 ratings — published 2015
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,530 ratings — published 1966
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as theory)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,831 ratings — published 1997
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,894 ratings — published 1980
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 135 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,608 ratings — published 1892
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,621 ratings — published 1983
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,731 ratings — published 1884
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,748 ratings — published 1900
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,717 ratings — published 1993
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,019 ratings — published 1957
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,638 ratings — published 1950
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,360 ratings — published 1969
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 23,672 ratings — published 1988
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,052 ratings — published 1989
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 376,405 ratings — published 1513
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,928 ratings — published 1980
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 128,766 ratings — published 1999
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,343 ratings — published 1987
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,562 ratings — published 2003
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,682 ratings — published 1951
“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“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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