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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,813 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,661 ratings — published 1975
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,278 ratings — published 1961
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,626 ratings — published 1967
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,250 ratings — published 1968
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,646 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,853 ratings — published 2009
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,648 ratings — published 1989
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,803 ratings — published 1952
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,265 ratings — published 1980
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,666 ratings — published 1981
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,624 ratings — published 1991
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,748 ratings — published 1957
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,571 ratings — published 1949
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,777 ratings — published 1955
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,806 ratings — published 1966
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 460,243 ratings — published 1972
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,051 ratings — published 1961
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,151 ratings — published 1972
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,476 ratings — published 1936
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 121,411 ratings — published 1886
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,944 ratings — published 1944
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 234,275 ratings — published -400
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.70 — 211,377 ratings — published 1848
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,436 ratings — published 1989
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,562 ratings — published 1969
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,832 ratings — published 2003
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,189 ratings — published 1980
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,129 ratings — published 1994
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,630 ratings — published 1917
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,280 ratings — published 1942
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.84 — 403,090 ratings — published 1513
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,520 ratings — published 1947
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,914 ratings — published 1927
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,922 ratings — published 1984
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.31 — 15,215 ratings — published 1867
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,979 ratings — published 1951
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 36,110 ratings — published 1943
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,018 ratings — published 1917
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,719 ratings — published 1980
Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,537 ratings — published 1677
Phenomenology of Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 21,303 ratings — published 1807
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 185,134 ratings — published 1883
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,106 ratings — published 1983
The Practice of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,061 ratings — published 1980
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,186 ratings — published 1981
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,664 ratings — published 1984
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,057 ratings — published 1981
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 155,744 ratings — published 1999
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,761 ratings — published 1843