Mapping Critical Theory

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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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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,773 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,445 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics 4.06 avg rating — 3,628 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 — 15,873 ratings
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The Political Unconscious
The Political Unconscious 4.05 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Specters of Marx
Specters of Marx 3.97 avg rating — 3,758 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 24,959 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure 4.06 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 4.33 avg rating — 6,897 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Selections from the Prison Notebooks 4.20 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
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For Marx
For Marx 3.92 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self 4.02 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
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Being And Event
Being And Event 4.02 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences 4.12 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
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Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class 4.21 avg rating — 3,644 ratings
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Empire
Empire 3.77 avg rating — 2,503 ratings
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Considerations on Western Marxism
Considerations on Western Marxism 3.98 avg rating — 577 ratings
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History of the Russian Revolution
History of the Russian Revolution 4.18 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by: Karl Marx
4.28 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures 3.89 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left 3.90 avg rating — 827 ratings
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Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse
Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse 3.70 avg rating — 119 ratings
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On Television
On Television 3.77 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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State of Exception
State of Exception 4.03 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
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The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1
The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1 4.16 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Hatred of Democracy
Hatred of Democracy 3.71 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomi
Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomi 3.90 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Philosophy of Marx
The Philosophy of Marx 3.83 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The New Spirit of Capitalism
The New Spirit of Capitalism 4.28 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,235 ratings
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The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology 3.94 avg rating — 777 ratings
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Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century 4.14 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics 3.83 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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The Production of Space
The Production of Space 4.16 avg rating — 2,207 ratings
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 4.28 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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The Communist Hypothesis
The Communist Hypothesis 3.56 avg rating — 803 ratings
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault 3.88 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
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The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering 4.14 avg rating — 1,944 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,209 ratings
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Hegel Contra Sociology
Hegel Contra Sociology 4.05 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
by: Karl Marx
4.13 avg rating — 5,204 ratings
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Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism (Pluto Classics Series)
Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism (Pluto Classics Series) 3.60 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory 4.10 avg rating — 621 ratings
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State, Power, Socialism
State, Power, Socialism 3.92 avg rating — 212 ratings
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A Marx for Our Times: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique
A Marx for Our Times: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics 3.87 avg rating — 325 ratings
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A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext
A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext 4.03 avg rating — 288 ratings
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On the Postcolony
On the Postcolony 4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development 3.89 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature 4.20 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity 4.18 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader
The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Economics of Global Turbulence
The Economics of Global Turbulence 4.21 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Resources of Critique
The Resources of Critique 2.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis 4.02 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
by: Ayn Rand
3.91 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media 4.53 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory 4.04 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Critique And Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past And Future (A Bradford Book)
Critique And Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past And Future (A Bradford Book) 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Postmodern Pooh
Postmodern Pooh 3.77 avg rating — 245 ratings
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The Terror of the Unforeseen
The Terror of the Unforeseen 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Critique of Forms of Life
Critique of Forms of Life 4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Hegel in a Wired Brain
Hegel in a Wired Brain 3.94 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Ideology
The Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Ideology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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 — 35,772 ratings
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Freud: The Making of an Illusion 3.89 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Alienation (New Directions in Critical Theory, 4)
Alienation (New Directions in Critical Theory, 4) 3.94 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet 4.59 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left 4.05 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim
Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World 3.78 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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This Is Not a Pipe
This Is Not a Pipe 3.84 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society
The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society 3.93 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007
by: Nick Land
3.86 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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What Should We Do with Our Brain? (Que faire de notre cerveau?)
What Should We Do with Our Brain? (Que faire de notre cerveau?) 3.91 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism
The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism 4.32 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts 4.12 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil 3.88 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond
Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond 3.98 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism 3.91 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Breathing: Chaos and Poetry
Breathing: Chaos and Poetry 4.08 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique
Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique 4.30 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Heaven in Disorder
Heaven in Disorder 3.78 avg rating — 734 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society 3.98 avg rating — 7,345 ratings
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Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide 3.91 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
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Traditional and Critical Theory
Traditional and Critical Theory 3.94 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures 4.28 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory
Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory 4.12 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School
The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School 3.94 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Afropessimism
Afropessimism 4.25 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life 4.24 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
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Intelligence and Spirit
Intelligence and Spirit 4.17 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality
The Authoritarian Personality 3.80 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Negative Dialectics
Negative Dialectics 4.14 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
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The Work of Mourning
The Work of Mourning 4.25 avg rating — 215 ratings
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