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1.
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Judith Butler
4.05 avg rating — 18,777 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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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
by:
György Lukács
4.06 avg rating — 3,628 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by:
Benedict Anderson
4.11 avg rating — 15,874 ratings
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The Political Unconscious
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.05 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Specters of Marx
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.97 avg rating — 3,758 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
by:
Michel Foucault
4.02 avg rating — 24,961 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
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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Gilles Deleuze
4.33 avg rating — 6,897 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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Antonio Gramsci
4.20 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
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For Marx
by:
Louis Althusser
3.92 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
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Michel Foucault
4.02 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
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Being And Event
by:
Alain Badiou
4.02 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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Michel Foucault
4.12 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
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Of Grammatology
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
by:
E.P. Thompson
4.21 avg rating — 3,644 ratings
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Empire
by:
Michael Hardt
3.77 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
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Considerations on Western Marxism
by:
Perry Anderson
3.98 avg rating — 577 ratings
20.
History of the Russian Revolution
by:
Leon Trotsky
4.18 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
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Karl Marx
4.28 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
by:
Jürgen Habermas
3.89 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
by:
Judith Butler
3.90 avg rating — 827 ratings
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Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse
by:
Antonio Negri
3.70 avg rating — 119 ratings
25.
On Television
by:
Pierre Bourdieu
3.77 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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State of Exception
by:
Giorgio Agamben
4.03 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
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The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1
by:
Ernst Bloch
4.16 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Hatred of Democracy
by:
Jacques Rancière
3.71 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomi
by:
Steve Wright
3.90 avg rating — 111 ratings
30.
The Philosophy of Marx
by:
Étienne Balibar
3.83 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The New Spirit of Capitalism
by:
Luc Boltanski
4.28 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings
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The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
by:
Slavoj Žižek
3.94 avg rating — 777 ratings
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Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
by:
Giovanni Arrighi
4.14 avg rating — 307 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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The Production of Space
by:
Henri Lefebvre
4.16 avg rating — 2,207 ratings
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
by:
Michel Foucault
4.28 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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The Communist Hypothesis
by:
Alain Badiou
3.56 avg rating — 803 ratings
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
by:
Stephen R.C. Hicks
3.88 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
by:
Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
by:
Mike Davis
4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Writing and Difference
by:
Jacques Derrida
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
by:
Byung-Chul Han
4.14 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by:
Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,213 ratings
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Hegel Contra Sociology
by:
Gillian Rose
4.05 avg rating — 104 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 — 5,206 ratings
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Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism (Pluto Classics Series)
by:
André Gorz
3.60 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
by:
Herbert Marcuse
4.10 avg rating — 621 ratings
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State, Power, Socialism
by:
Nicos Poulantzas
3.92 avg rating — 212 ratings
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A Marx for Our Times: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique
by:
Daniel Bensaïd
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics
by:
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3.87 avg rating — 325 ratings
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A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext
by:
Paolo Virno
4.03 avg rating — 288 ratings
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On the Postcolony
by:
Achille Mbembe
4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
by:
David Harvey
3.89 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
by:
John Bellamy Foster
4.20 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
by:
Loïc Wacquant
4.18 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader
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Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Economics of Global Turbulence
by:
Robert Brenner
4.21 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Resources of Critique
by:
Alex Callinicos
2.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
by:
Nancy Fraser
4.02 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
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Ayn Rand
3.91 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
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Michael Parenti
4.53 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
by:
Nancy Fraser
4.04 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Critique And Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past And Future (A Bradford Book)
by:
Nikolas Kompridis
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Postmodern Pooh
by:
Frederick C. Crews
3.77 avg rating — 245 ratings
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The Terror of the Unforeseen
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Henry A. Giroux
4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Critique of Forms of Life
by:
Rahel Jaeggi
4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Hegel in a Wired Brain
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Slavoj Žižek
3.94 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Ideology
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M.D. Kammari
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by:
Michel Foucault
4.24 avg rating — 35,774 ratings
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
by:
Frederick C. Crews
3.89 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Alienation (New Directions in Critical Theory, 4)
by:
Rahel Jaeggi
3.94 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.59 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
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Roger Scruton
4.05 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim
by:
Frederick Neuhouser
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
by:
Timothy Morton
3.78 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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This Is Not a Pipe
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Michel Foucault
3.84 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society
by:
Jürgen Habermas
3.93 avg rating — 854 ratings
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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?)
by:
Catherine Malabou
3.91 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism
by:
Peter D. Thomas
4.32 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
by:
Axel Honneth
4.12 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
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Alain Badiou
3.88 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond
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Jacques Derrida
3.98 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
by:
Alain Badiou
3.91 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Breathing: Chaos and Poetry
by:
Franco "Bifo" Berardi
4.08 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique
by:
Sally Haslanger
4.30 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Heaven in Disorder
by:
Slavoj Žižek
3.78 avg rating — 734 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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Herbert Marcuse
3.98 avg rating — 7,345 ratings
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Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
by:
Franco "Bifo" Berardi
3.91 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
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Traditional and Critical Theory
by:
Max Horkheimer
3.94 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
by:
Mark Fisher
4.28 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory
by:
Razmig Keucheyan
4.12 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School
by:
Raymond Geuss
3.94 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Afropessimism
by:
Frank B. Wilderson III
4.25 avg rating — 878 ratings
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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Theodor W. Adorno
4.24 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
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Intelligence and Spirit
by:
Reza Negarestani
4.17 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality
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Theodor W. Adorno
3.80 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Negative Dialectics
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.14 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
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The Work of Mourning
by:
Jacques Derrida
4.25 avg rating — 215 ratings
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