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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 493 times as theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 194,714 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 452 times as theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,726 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 433 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,396 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,561 ratings — published 1975
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,315 ratings — published 1989
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,247 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,043 ratings — published 2009
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,163 ratings — published 1967
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,736 ratings — published 1968
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,195 ratings — published 1917
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,015 ratings — published 1981
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,403 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,629 ratings — published 2003
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,824 ratings — published 1952
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,087 ratings — published 1917
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,053 ratings — published 1957
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,861 ratings — published 1949
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,588 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,973 ratings — published 1887
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,437 ratings — published 1961
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,415 ratings — published 1955
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,702 ratings — published 1880
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 430,869 ratings — published 1972
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,442 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,202 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,500 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,990 ratings — published 1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,305 ratings — published 1936
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,120 ratings — published 1947
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,097 ratings — published 2015
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,556 ratings — published 1984
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,560 ratings — published 1966
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,014 ratings — published 1997
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,251 ratings — published 1980
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,828 ratings — published 1884
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 135 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,700 ratings — published 1892
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,650 ratings — published 1983
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 23,937 ratings — published 1988
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,733 ratings — published 1993
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,089 ratings — published 1957
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,759 ratings — published 1950
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,803 ratings — published 1900
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,381 ratings — published 1969
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 379,080 ratings — published 1513
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,092 ratings — published 1989
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,966 ratings — published 1980
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,417 ratings — published 1987
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,889 ratings — published 2003
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 131,553 ratings — published 1999
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,727 ratings — published 1951
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
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“It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again."
"Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
― Death on the Nile
"Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
― Death on the Nile
