Theory
Big ideas shape how we understand ourselves and our world, from the deepest questions of existence to the systems that govern modern life. These thought-provoking works explore philosophy, politics, psychology, and social theory through accessible frameworks that illuminate complex concepts for curious minds.
Theory Book Summaries
Simulacra and Simulation
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
Liquid Modernity
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
The Burnout Society
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
The Communist Manifesto
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Posthuman
Philosophy
Theory
Feminism
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
History
Politics
Sociology
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Being and Time
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Liquid Times
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
Mythologies
Philosophy
Essays
Theory
Totality and Infinity
An Essay on Exteriority
Philosophy
Theory
Essays
Grading for Equity
What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
Education
Teaching
School
The Interpretation of Dreams
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Philosophy
Psychology
Theory
Capitalist Realism
Is There No Alternative?
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Mutual Aid
A Factor of Evolution
Politics
Philosophy
Science
On the Genealogy of Morals
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
History
Philosophy
Politics
Civilization and Its Discontents
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Philosophy
History
Sociology
Being and Nothingness
Philosophy
Classics
France
Das Kapital
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Glitch Feminism
A Manifesto
Feminism
Theory
Philosophy
Critique of Judgment
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Politics
Race
Social Justice
The Society of the Spectacle
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Limits of Interpretation
Philosophy
Semiotics
Essays
Teaching Critical Thinking
Practical Wisdom
Education
Teaching
Feminism
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2
The Use of Pleasure
Philosophy
History
Sexuality
Looking Awry
An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Philosophy
Art
Essays
An Actor Prepares
Theatre
Film
Drama
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Truth and Method
Philosophy
Theory
German Literature
The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Sociology
Philosophy
Psychology
The Logic of Sense
Philosophy
Theory
France
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A Manifesto
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Feminism
Queer
Gender
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
The Revolution Betrayed
History
Politics
Philosophy
La crisis de la narración
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Education
Philosophy
Politics
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy
History
Reference
After Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Foundations of Leninism
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
