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
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A Manifesto
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Relational-Cultural Therapy
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
The Foundations of Leninism
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
Saving the Modern Soul
Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
Speech Acts
An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Philosophy
Linguistics
Language
The Sociological Imagination
Sociology
Philosophy
Social Science
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Revolution Betrayed
Politics
History
Philosophy
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Feminism
Queer
Gender
The Struggle for Recognition
The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
A Thousand Plateaus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy
Classics
Theory
Grundrisse
Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy
History
Reference
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Indigenous
Politics
History
Writing and Difference
Philosophy
Theory
France
After Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Ethics and Infinity
Conversations with Philippe Nemo
Philosophy
France
Religion
Aspiration
The Agency of Becoming
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
How to Read Lacan
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Multicultural Citizenship
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
The True Life
Philosophy
Essays
Psychology
The People’s Republic of Walmart
How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Economics
Politics
History
Inventing the Future
Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
The Psychology of Love
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
The Language of New Media
Theory
Art
Technology
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
Philosophy
Politics
France
Propaganda
The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
What Is to Be Done?
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Politics
Economics
History
The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Politics
Philosophy
History
Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
Philosophy
Psychology
Feminism
Main Currents Of Marxism
The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Reactionary Mind
Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Politics
History
Philosophy
The New Black
Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Imperialism
The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Homo Sacer
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Numbers Game
The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life
Mathematics
Science
Economics
Practical Anarchism
A Guide for Daily Life
Politics
Social Justice
Philosophy
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Essential Works of Lenin
"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Philosophy
Art
German Literature
Hatred of Democracy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
