Books on Theory

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Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia 4.49 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Culture and Anarchy
Culture and Anarchy 3.41 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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Mythologies
Mythologies 4.08 avg rating — 16,795 ratings
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On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck
On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck 3.38 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating — 15,875 ratings
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography 3.99 avg rating — 76,120 ratings
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Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
by: OKEEFE,
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,749 ratings
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Specters of Marx
Specters of Marx 3.97 avg rating — 3,759 ratings
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The Ideology of the Aesthetic
The Ideology of the Aesthetic 4.12 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art 4.04 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents 3.79 avg rating — 43,514 ratings
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The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture 4.05 avg rating — 5,726 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright
Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments 4.11 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
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Literary Theory For Beginners
Literary Theory For Beginners 3.50 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays 3.93 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
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Conspiracy Theory in America
Conspiracy Theory in America 3.91 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain
Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain 4.22 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor
Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Between Past and Future
Between Past and Future 4.09 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice 4.06 avg rating — 11,593 ratings
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A General Theory of Magic
A General Theory of Magic 3.80 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization 3.88 avg rating — 755 ratings
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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics 4.09 avg rating — 853 ratings
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The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective 3.94 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal
The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal 4.04 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Poetics of Space
The Poetics of Space 4.18 avg rating — 10,888 ratings
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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History 3.54 avg rating — 2,364 ratings
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Rabelais and His World
Rabelais and His World 4.25 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings 3.96 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Philosophy of Marx
The Philosophy of Marx 3.83 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture 3.77 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities
Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities 3.90 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion 3.96 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Theory of the Leisure Class 3.87 avg rating — 3,941 ratings
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Elements of Semiology
Elements of Semiology 3.77 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth
Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth 3.77 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Grain of the Voice: Interviews, 1962-1980
The Grain of the Voice: Interviews, 1962-1980 4.23 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Art Theory For Beginners
Art Theory For Beginners 3.76 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Image - Music - Text
Image - Music - Text 4.09 avg rating — 3,789 ratings
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood 4.04 avg rating — 16,839 ratings
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The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics 3.73 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Eroticism
Eroticism 4.05 avg rating — 3,936 ratings
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The Great Political Theories, Volume 1
The Great Political Theories, Volume 1 3.94 avg rating — 345 ratings
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For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign 4.04 avg rating — 220 ratings
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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works 3.66 avg rating — 2,818 ratings
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The Mirror of Production
The Mirror of Production 3.85 avg rating — 179 ratings
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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress 3.51 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,970 ratings
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Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas 3.14 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings 4.32 avg rating — 2,538 ratings
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Theories of Primitive Religion
Theories of Primitive Religion 3.68 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections 4.29 avg rating — 12,265 ratings
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Women Are from Pluto Men Are from Uranus: The Big Bang and Other Premature Theories of Love
Women Are from Pluto Men Are from Uranus: The Big Bang and Other Premature Theories of Love 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Popular Culture and Social Relations
Popular Culture and Social Relations did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales 3.75 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture 4.22 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times 3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Series Q)
The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Series Q) 4.19 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, Health-inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006
Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, Health-inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006 4.35 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Nation and Narration
Nation and Narration 3.89 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity
The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Location of Culture
The Location of Culture 3.86 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
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Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music 3.82 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste 4.16 avg rating — 3,481 ratings
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Queer: A Graphic History
Queer: A Graphic History 3.92 avg rating — 7,149 ratings
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
Outline of a Theory of Practice 4.06 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics 4.05 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond
Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond
by: Todd Boyd
3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other 4.04 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Bread & Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay
Bread & Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay 3.29 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture 3.90 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project 4.37 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture
Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" 4.12 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
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The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture
The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative 3.99 avg rating — 810 ratings
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The Interpretation of Cultures
The Interpretation of Cultures 4.11 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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Documenting Racism: African Americans in US Department of Agriculture Documentaries, 1921-42
Documenting Racism: African Americans in US Department of Agriculture Documentaries, 1921-42 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,778 ratings
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Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies 4.33 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Trauma: Explorations in Memory
Trauma: Explorations in Memory 3.92 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Practice of Everyday Life
The Practice of Everyday Life 4.10 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
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Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression
Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism 4.44 avg rating — 7,437 ratings
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"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?": Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Gender and Culture Series)
"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?": Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Gender and Culture Series) 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies
Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 53 ratings
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On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000
On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories 3.80 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture 3.70 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies 4.20 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction
The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies
Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies
by: Rey Chow
4.26 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations
Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations
by: Ivan Karp
3.28 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance
Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography 3.89 avg rating — 747 ratings
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Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s (Studies in Book and Print Culture) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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