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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 211,130 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,242 ratings — published 1961
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,631 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 446 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,791 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,639 ratings — published 1989
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,625 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 424 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,773 ratings — published 2009
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,601 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,598 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,214 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,008 ratings — published 1981
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,002 ratings — published 1917
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,658 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,771 ratings — published 1952
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,200 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,737 ratings — published 1957
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,147 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 15,194 ratings — published 1867
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,515 ratings — published 1949
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,845 ratings — published 1880
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 15,982 ratings — published 2004
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,042 ratings — published 1961
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 459,802 ratings — published 1972
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,769 ratings — published 1955
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,098 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,622 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,263 ratings — published 1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,319 ratings — published 1936
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,552 ratings — published 1997
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,515 ratings — published 1947
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,436 ratings — published 1900
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,803 ratings — published 1966
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,836 ratings — published 2015
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,882 ratings — published 1984
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,836 ratings — published
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,099 ratings — published 1902
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,657 ratings — published 1884
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,767 ratings — published 1988
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 147 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,512 ratings — published 1892
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,546 ratings — published 1980
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,713 ratings — published 1957
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,184 ratings — published 1980
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 134 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,525 ratings — published 1847
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,561 ratings — published 1969
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,777 ratings — published 1983
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 402,732 ratings — published 1513
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,428 ratings — published 1989
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,857 ratings — published 1993
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,786 ratings — published 2003
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 155,426 ratings — published 1999
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.”
― A Theory of Justice
― A Theory of Justice
“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love whom he himself sees as a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
