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1.
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
by:
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.17 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by:
Paulo Freire
4.30 avg rating — 37,857 ratings
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Rabelais and His World
by:
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.25 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
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The State and Revolution
by:
Vladimir Lenin
4.25 avg rating — 17,444 ratings
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
by:
Mark Fisher
4.21 avg rating — 37,058 ratings
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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.05 avg rating — 606 ratings
7.
A Secular Age
by:
Charles Margrave Taylor
4.27 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
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Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide To Late Capitalist Television
by:
Adam Kotsko
3.51 avg rating — 288 ratings
8.
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism
by:
Ellen Meiksins Wood
4.30 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Criticism Of Heaven
by:
Roland Boer
3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
by:
Erich Auerbach
4.29 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
12.
Of Grammatology
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
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Regarding the Pain of Others
by:
Susan Sontag
4.10 avg rating — 20,921 ratings
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Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
by:
Jonathan D. Culler
3.87 avg rating — 183 ratings
15.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
by:
Susan Sontag
4.14 avg rating — 9,995 ratings
16.
Orientalism
by:
Edward W. Said
4.13 avg rating — 28,509 ratings
17.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by:
Michel Foucault
4.24 avg rating — 35,774 ratings
18.
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
by:
Julia Kristeva
4.07 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
19.
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by:
Vladimir Lenin
4.26 avg rating — 9,468 ratings
20.
The Wretched of the Earth
by:
Frantz Fanon
4.34 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
21.
Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
by:
Karl Marx
4.36 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
22.
The Principles of Communism
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.09 avg rating — 5,070 ratings
23.
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
by:
Cedric J. Robinson
4.39 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
24.
What Is to Be Done?
by:
Vladimir Lenin
4.08 avg rating — 4,597 ratings
25.
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by:
Karl Marx
4.28 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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Crowds and Party
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Jodi Dean
3.85 avg rating — 170 ratings
27.
Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory
by:
Terry Eagleton
3.67 avg rating — 107 ratings
28.
Marxism and Literary Criticism
by:
Terry Eagleton
3.89 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
28.
Marxism and Literature
by:
Raymond Williams
4.07 avg rating — 1,664 ratings
30.
Anatomy of Criticism
by:
Northrop Frye
4.09 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
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Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction
by:
Alison Milbank
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
32.
Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form
by:
Anna Kornbluh
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
33.
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
by:
Louis Althusser
4.14 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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Awkwardness
by:
Kotsko Adam
3.76 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Creepiness
by:
Adam Kotsko
3.62 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by:
Antonio Gramsci
4.20 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
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Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism
by:
Robin James
3.73 avg rating — 48 ratings
38.
The Philosophy of War and Exile
by:
Nolen Gertz
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
38.
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
by:
Silvia Federici
4.56 avg rating — 12,676 ratings
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by:
Gilles Deleuze
4.17 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
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The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left
by:
Stuart Hall
4.29 avg rating — 95 ratings
42.
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 5)
by:
Margaret Cohen
4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
43.
Writing and Difference
by:
Jacques Derrida
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
44.
Fuerza De Ley: El Fundamento Mistico De La Autoridad
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.98 avg rating — 146 ratings
45.
The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.24 avg rating — 165 ratings
46.
Adieu to Emmanuel Lévinas
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.15 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Cinders
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.08 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.25 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.11 avg rating — 244 ratings
50.
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.91 avg rating — 535 ratings
51.
Margins of Philosophy
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.09 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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The Politics of Friendship
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.95 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
by:
John Berger
3.93 avg rating — 418,830 ratings
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S/Z: An Essay
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Roland Barthes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,869 ratings
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Mythologies
by:
Roland Barthes
4.08 avg rating — 16,795 ratings
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The Book of Promethea
by:
Hélène Cixous
4.16 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Speculum of the Other Woman
by:
Luce Irigaray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 582 ratings
58.
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
by:
Sandra M. Gilbert
4.21 avg rating — 4,064 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
by:
Edward W. Said
4.18 avg rating — 5,662 ratings
60.
Persons and Things
by:
Barbara Johnson
4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings
61.
Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory
by:
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings
62.
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
by:
Michel Foucault
4.29 avg rating — 2,814 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
by:
Michel Foucault
4.02 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
by:
Michel Foucault
4.06 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
65.
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
by:
Michel Foucault
4.02 avg rating — 24,961 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by:
Michel Foucault
4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by:
Michel Foucault
3.95 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by:
Michel Foucault
4.12 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by:
C.L.R. James
4.39 avg rating — 7,201 ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
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Frantz Fanon
4.26 avg rating — 18,208 ratings
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Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law
by:
China Miéville
4.01 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Near Future Series)
by:
Wendy Brown
4.24 avg rating — 883 ratings
73.
The Communist Horizon
by:
Jodi Dean
3.67 avg rating — 366 ratings
74.
Cruel Optimism
by:
Lauren Berlant
4.14 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
75.
Epistemology of the Closet
by:
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
4.10 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
76.
State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious (Futures #1)
by:
Isabell Lorey
3.54 avg rating — 211 ratings
77.
The Gift of Death
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.09 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
78.
Specters of Marx
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.97 avg rating — 3,758 ratings
79.
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
by:
Judith Butler
4.19 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
80.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
by:
Judith Butler
4.05 avg rating — 18,777 ratings
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
by:
Judith Butler
4.21 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
82.
The Coming Community
by:
Giorgio Agamben
4.04 avg rating — 784 ratings
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The Arcades Project
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.44 avg rating — 3,036 ratings
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.08 avg rating — 23,854 ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by:
Hannah Arendt
4.20 avg rating — 31,559 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by:
Herbert Marcuse
3.98 avg rating — 7,345 ratings
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.24 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
88.
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
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Loser Sons: Politics and Authority
by:
Avital Ronell
3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
by:
Simon Critchley
3.73 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by:
Fredric Jameson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,446 ratings
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The Political Unconscious
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.05 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
by:
Shulamith Firestone
3.85 avg rating — 2,733 ratings
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Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
by:
Nancy Fraser
4.02 avg rating — 371 ratings
95.
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
by:
György Lukács
4.06 avg rating — 3,628 ratings
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
by:
Ernesto Laclau
3.83 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (Historical Materialism Book Series, 30)
by:
David McNally
4.46 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.03 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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The Philosophy of Marx
by:
Étienne Balibar
3.83 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by:
bell hooks
4.45 avg rating — 12,302 ratings