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1.
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.24 avg rating β 4,614 ratings
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Negative Dialectics
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.14 avg rating β 1,910 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.79 avg rating β 43,512 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by:
Fredric Jameson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,446 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by:
Herbert Marcuse
3.98 avg rating β 7,345 ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
by:
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
4.07 avg rating β 5,956 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating β 8,007 ratings
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The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society
by:
JΓΌrgen Habermas
3.93 avg rating β 854 ratings
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On the Genealogy of Morals
by:
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.12 avg rating β 33,988 ratings
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.29 avg rating β 12,264 ratings
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.08 avg rating β 23,854 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
3.80 avg rating β 358 ratings
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Critical Theory: Selected Essays
by:
Max Horkheimer
3.98 avg rating β 260 ratings
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
by:
JΓΌrgen Habermas
3.89 avg rating β 1,251 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
by:
GyΓΆrgy LukΓ‘cs
4.06 avg rating β 3,628 ratings
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The Marx-Engels Reader
by:
Karl Marx
3.98 avg rating β 6,941 ratings
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Phenomenology of Spirit
by:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3.96 avg rating β 19,985 ratings
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Escape from Freedom
by:
Erich Fromm
4.27 avg rating β 15,569 ratings
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Valences of the Dialectic
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.16 avg rating β 108 ratings
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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
by:
Karl Marx
4.15 avg rating β 4,392 ratings
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Eclipse of Reason
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating β 908 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
by:
Karl Marx
4.13 avg rating β 5,205 ratings
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Considerations on Western Marxism
by:
Perry Anderson
3.98 avg rating β 577 ratings
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Mythologies
by:
Roland Barthes
4.08 avg rating β 16,795 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.13 avg rating β 7,491 ratings
26.
A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader
by:
Antony Easthope
3.73 avg rating β 66 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment (The Verso Classics Series)
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.11 avg rating β 8,007 ratings
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The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason
by:
JΓΌrgen Habermas
3.95 avg rating β 452 ratings
29.
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.08 avg rating β 23,854 ratings
29.
What is an Author?
by:
Michel Foucault
3.78 avg rating β 874 ratings
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Basic Writings
by:
Martin Heidegger
4.07 avg rating β 5,180 ratings
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For Marx
by:
Louis Althusser
3.92 avg rating β 1,629 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
by:
Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β 189,239 ratings
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Liquid Life
by:
Zygmunt Bauman
3.90 avg rating β 2,065 ratings
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The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory
by:
Razmig Keucheyan
4.12 avg rating β 422 ratings
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Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas
by:
David Held
3.88 avg rating β 130 ratings
36.
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
by:
Ayn Rand
3.91 avg rating β 509 ratings
36.
Marx's Kapital for Beginners
by:
David N. Smith
4.06 avg rating β 785 ratings
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DARWIN β₯ MARX: ECO/LOGICAL R/EVOLUTION
by:
Ciprian Pater
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
36.
American Gaslighting: How America is Being Systematically Taught to Hate Itself
by:
Daniel Shyti
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Hegel: Three Studies
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.12 avg rating β 209 ratings
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The Arcades Project
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.44 avg rating β 3,036 ratings
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Marxism: A Graphic Guide
by:
Rupert Woodfin
3.53 avg rating β 1,442 ratings
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Alienation (New Directions in Critical Theory, 4)
by:
Rahel Jaeggi
3.94 avg rating β 111 ratings
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The Revisionist Theory of the βLiberationβ of Science From Ideology
by:
M.D. Kammari
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
46.
Reading Capital
by:
Louis Althusser
3.91 avg rating β 968 ratings
46.
The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance
by:
Rolf Wiggershaus
4.04 avg rating β 50 ratings
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Aesthetics and Politics
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.12 avg rating β 2,296 ratings
46.
Marx, Freud, Einstein: Heroes of the Mind
by:
Corinne Maier
3.77 avg rating β 176 ratings
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Critique of Forms of Life
by:
Rahel Jaeggi
4.12 avg rating β 51 ratings
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Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy
by:
Werner Bonefeld
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Jargon of Authenticity
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
3.87 avg rating β 365 ratings
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Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One
by:
Fredric Jameson
3.82 avg rating β 147 ratings
52.
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.32 avg rating β 2,538 ratings
52.
Culture and Society, 1780-1950
by:
Raymond Williams
4.04 avg rating β 444 ratings
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Marx for Beginners
by:
Rius
3.88 avg rating β 2,941 ratings
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Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
by:
Nancy Fraser
4.04 avg rating β 158 ratings
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Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason
by:
Werner Bonefeld
4.22 avg rating β 23 ratings
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The Adorno Reader
by:
Brian O'Connor
3.98 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.03 avg rating β 582 ratings
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The Death of the Author
by:
Roland Barthes
3.93 avg rating β 3,080 ratings
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Freud for Beginners (Writing and Readers Documentary Comic Books)
by:
Richard Osborne
3.37 avg rating β 132 ratings
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The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
by:
Axel Honneth
4.12 avg rating β 284 ratings
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On Ideology
by:
Louis Althusser
4.02 avg rating β 827 ratings
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Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Post-modern
by:
Douglas Kellner
3.90 avg rating β 121 ratings
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Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide
by:
Oscar ZΓ‘rate
3.66 avg rating β 2,026 ratings
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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
by:
Louis Althusser
3.93 avg rating β 1,674 ratings
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Foucault and Neoliberalism
by:
Daniel Zamora Vargas
3.80 avg rating β 74 ratings
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Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
by:
Stuart Jeffries
4.08 avg rating β 1,504 ratings
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Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from LukΓ‘cs to Habermas
by:
Martin Jay
4.03 avg rating β 68 ratings
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The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness
by:
Walter Benjamin
3.63 avg rating β 618 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by:
Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating β 23,211 ratings
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Where the North Sea Touches Alabama
by:
Allen C. Shelton
4.70 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
by:
Erich Fromm
4.24 avg rating β 3,277 ratings
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The Culture Industry
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.05 avg rating β 5,726 ratings
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Moral Panics
by:
Kenneth Thompson
3.83 avg rating β 36 ratings
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The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School
by:
Raymond Geuss
3.94 avg rating β 158 ratings
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The Freud Reader
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.99 avg rating β 1,296 ratings
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The End Of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy
by:
Russell Jacoby
3.55 avg rating β 95 ratings
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Culture and Materialism
by:
Raymond Williams
4.03 avg rating β 196 ratings
81.
The Political Unconscious
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.05 avg rating β 1,126 ratings
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The New Spirit of Capitalism
by:
Luc Boltanski
4.28 avg rating β 292 ratings
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The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition
by:
Maurizio Lazzarato
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 518 ratings