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
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Das Kapital
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Simulacra and Simulation
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
Looking Awry
An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Totality and Infinity
An Essay on Exteriority
Philosophy
Theory
Essays
The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Politics
Philosophy
History
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy
History
Reference
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Indigenous
Politics
History
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy
Classics
Theory
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Limits of Interpretation
Philosophy
Semiotics
Essays
The Logic of Sense
Philosophy
Theory
France
The Revolution Betrayed
History
Politics
Philosophy
Main Currents Of Marxism
The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
Philosophy
Politics
History
La crisis de la narración
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
Capitalist Realism
Is There No Alternative?
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
Philosophy
Psychology
Feminism
What Is to Be Done?
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Essential Works of Lenin
"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Philosophy
Art
Essays
Writing and Difference
Philosophy
Theory
France
The Posthuman
Philosophy
Theory
Feminism
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Politics
Economics
History
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Philosophy
Art
German Literature
We Real Cool
Black Men and Masculinity
Feminism
Race
Gender
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Speech Acts
An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Philosophy
Linguistics
Language