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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 197,849 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 452 times as theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,362 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,628 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,550 ratings — published 1989
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,916 ratings — published 1975
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,006 ratings — published 2009
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,623 ratings — published 1978
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,418 ratings — published 1967
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,155 ratings — published 1968
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,591 ratings — published 1917
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,492 ratings — published 1981
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,509 ratings — published 1917
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,601 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,128 ratings — published 1952
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,038 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,153 ratings — published 1957
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,314 ratings — published 1949
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,678 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,185 ratings — published 1887
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,888 ratings — published 1880
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,483 ratings — published 1955
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,547 ratings — published 1961
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 435,650 ratings — published 1972
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,794 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,358 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,513 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,038 ratings — published 1980
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,207 ratings — published 1947
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,509 ratings — published 1936
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,888 ratings — published 1984
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,612 ratings — published 2015
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,599 ratings — published 1966
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,370 ratings — published 1997
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,710 ratings — published 1980
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,410 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,948 ratings — published 1884
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,827 ratings — published 1892
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,909 ratings — published 1900
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,943 ratings — published 1950
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,759 ratings — published 1993
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,195 ratings — published 1957
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,673 ratings — published 1983
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,414 ratings — published 1969
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 382,911 ratings — published 1532
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,243 ratings — published 1902
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,012 ratings — published 1980
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,156 ratings — published 1989
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 121 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,561 ratings — published 1847
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 135,613 ratings — published 1999
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,506 ratings — published 1987
“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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“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.”
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