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The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Summary
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
by Slavoj Žižek 2018 70 pages
3.57
745 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Homo Sacer Summary
Homo Sacer
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
by Giorgio Agamben 1994 208 pages
4.06
4.9K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Summary
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud 1917 560 pages
3.80
11.4K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Feminism or Death Summary
Feminism or Death
by Françoise d'Eaubonne 1974 352 pages
3.59
149 ratings
Feminism
Politics
France
Teaching Critical Thinking Summary
Teaching Critical Thinking
Practical Wisdom
by bell hooks 2009 191 pages
4.30
1.5K ratings
Education
Teaching
Feminism
The Sociological Imagination Summary
The Sociological Imagination
by C. Wright Mills 1959 248 pages
4.16
3.2K ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Social Science
Fully Automated Luxury Communism Summary
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A Manifesto
by Aaron Bastani 2018 278 pages
3.69
2.5K ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Minima Moralia Summary
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
by Theodor W. Adorno 1951 256 pages
4.24
4.6K ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Ethics and Infinity Summary
Ethics and Infinity
Conversations with Philippe Nemo
by Emmanuel Levinas 1982 126 pages
3.89
659 ratings
Philosophy
France
Religion
The Conquest of Bread Summary
The Conquest of Bread
by Pyotr Kropotkin 1892 224 pages
4.07
9.2K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
The Struggle for Recognition Summary
The Struggle for Recognition
The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
by Axel Honneth 1992 240 pages
4.12
276 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Imperialism Summary
Imperialism
The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by Vladimir Lenin 1917 192 pages
4.25
9.2K ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Saving the Modern Soul Summary
Saving the Modern Soul
Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
by Eva Illouz 2008 304 pages
4.12
163 ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
Playing and Reality Summary
Playing and Reality
by D.W. Winnicott 1971 214 pages
4.21
2.5K ratings
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Parenting
The Foundations of Leninism Summary
The Foundations of Leninism
by Joseph Stalin 1924 123 pages
4.05
1.6K ratings
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
Grundrisse Summary
Grundrisse
Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx 1857 904 pages
4.28
1.9K ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Relational-Cultural Therapy Summary
Relational-Cultural Therapy
by Judith V. Jordan 2009 136 pages
4.42
165 ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
The Order of Things Summary
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by Michel Foucault 1966 416 pages
4.12
9.4K ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Psychology of Love Summary
The Psychology of Love
by Sigmund Freud 2006 368 pages
3.34
804 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
Trouble in Paradise Summary
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
by Slavoj Žižek 2014 208 pages
3.73
1.4K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Aspiration Summary
Aspiration
The Agency of Becoming
by Agnes Callard 2018 304 pages
3.76
189 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Writing and Difference Summary
Writing and Difference
by Jacques Derrida 1967 362 pages
4.00
7.9K ratings
Philosophy
Theory
France
Propaganda Summary
Propaganda
The Formation of Men's Attitudes
by Jacques Ellul 1962 352 pages
4.27
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
How to Read Lacan Summary
How to Read Lacan
by Slavoj Žižek 2006 144 pages
3.95
3.3K ratings
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Phenomenology of Spirit Summary
Phenomenology of Spirit
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1807 640 pages
3.96
19.8K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Theory
The Rise of Modern Philosophy Summary
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
by Anthony Kenny 2006 356 pages
3.82
263 ratings
Philosophy
History
Reference
Multicultural Citizenship Summary
Multicultural Citizenship
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
by Will Kymlicka 1995 290 pages
3.70
277 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Summary
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
by Jacques Lacan 1973 304 pages
4.10
1.7K ratings
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
The Revolution Betrayed Summary
The Revolution Betrayed
by Leon Trotsky 1937 240 pages
4.07
2.0K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Gaga Feminism Summary
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
by J. Jack Halberstam 2012 157 pages
3.56
842 ratings
Feminism
Queer
Gender
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Summary
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke 1757 208 pages
3.69
2.6K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Lectures on the Will to Know Summary
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
by Michel Foucault 2014 293 pages
4.27
233 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
France
After Capitalism Summary
After Capitalism
by David Schweickart 2002 224 pages
4.00
239 ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Red Skin, White Masks Summary
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
by Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 256 pages
4.48
867 ratings
Indigenous
Politics
History
Less Than Nothing Summary
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
by Slavoj Žižek 2012 1056 pages
4.17
609 ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
The True Life Summary
The True Life
by Alain Badiou 2016 80 pages
3.62
529 ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Psychology
A Brief History of Neoliberalism Summary
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey 2005 247 pages
4.13
7.1K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
What Is to Be Done? Summary
What Is to Be Done?
by Vladimir Lenin 1902 272 pages
4.07
4.4K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Human Condition Summary
The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt 1958 349 pages
4.20
9.1K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The People’s Republic of Walmart Summary
The People’s Republic of Walmart
How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips 2019 257 pages
3.90
2.0K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Inventing the Future Summary
Inventing the Future
Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek 2015 245 pages
3.98
2.5K ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
by Susan J. Brison 2001 184 pages
4.36
458 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Feminism
The Socialist Manifesto Summary
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara 2019 288 pages
3.62
1.9K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo Summary
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 367 pages
4.17
15.8K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
Phenomenology of Perception Summary
Phenomenology of Perception
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1945 544 pages
4.17
6.3K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Theory
Main Currents Of Marxism Summary
Main Currents Of Marxism
The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
by Leszek Kołakowski 1976 1284 pages
4.26
438 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy Summary
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx 1846 584 pages
4.13
5.1K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Reactionary Mind Summary
The Reactionary Mind
Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin 2011 290 pages
3.94
2.7K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The New Black Summary
The New Black
Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
by Darian Leader 2008 208 pages
4.06
657 ratings
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Summary
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
by Immanuel Kant 1764 124 pages
3.56
1.1K ratings
Philosophy
Art
German Literature
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