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Psychopolitics Summary
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Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
by Byung-Chul Han 2014 96 pages
4.07
7k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
The Concept of the Political Summary
Immersive
The Concept of the Political
by Carl Schmitt 1927 144 pages
3.94
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
The Burnout Society Summary
The Burnout Society
by Byung-Chul Han 2010 60 pages
3.85
30k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Liquid Modernity Summary
Liquid Modernity
by Zygmunt Bauman 1999 240 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
Simulacra and Simulation Summary
Simulacra and Simulation
by Jean Baudrillard 1981 164 pages
4.00
16k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
Imagined Communities Summary
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by Benedict Anderson 1983 224 pages
4.11
16k+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Mythologies Summary
Mythologies
by Roland Barthes 1957 160 pages
4.08
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Theory
The Posthuman Summary
The Posthuman
by Rosi Braidotti 2013 180 pages
3.82
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Feminism
Capitalist Realism Summary
Capitalist Realism
Is There No Alternative?
by Mark Fisher 2009 81 pages
4.21
41k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Staying with the Trouble Summary
Staying with the Trouble
Making Kin in the Chthulucene
by Donna J. Haraway 2016 312 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Feminism
Theory
The Society of the Spectacle Summary
The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord 1967 154 pages
4.03
23k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Being and Time Summary
Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger 1927 589 pages
4.05
28k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
The Will to Power Summary
The Will to Power
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1901 575 pages
4.07
11k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Being and Nothingness Summary
Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 688 pages
3.99
35k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
France
Black Skin, White Masks Summary
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon 1952 232 pages
4.26
19k+ ratings
Philosophy
Race
Politics
Anti-Oedipus Summary
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by Gilles Deleuze 1972 400 pages
4.18
8k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Psychology
The Sublime Object of Ideology Summary
The Sublime Object of Ideology
by Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek 1989 256 pages
4.07
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Poetics of Space Summary
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard 1957 282 pages
4.18
11k+ ratings
Philosophy
Architecture
Art
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire 1968 183 pages
4.30
39k+ ratings
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Totality and Infinity Summary
Totality and Infinity
An Essay on Exteriority
by Emmanuel Levinas 1961 314 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Theory
Liquid Times Summary
Liquid Times
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
by Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
The Social Construction of Reality Summary
The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
by Peter L. Berger 1966 219 pages
4.11
4k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Psychology
Capital Summary
Capital
A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by Karl Marx 1887 1152 pages
4.30
14k+ ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Silencing the Past Summary
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 1995 216 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 Summary
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
An Introduction
by Michel Foucault 1976 176 pages
4.02
25k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
Mutual Aid Summary
Mutual Aid
A Factor of Evolution
by Pyotr Kropotkin 1891 138 pages
4.23
4k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Playing and Reality Summary
Playing and Reality
by D.W. Winnicott 1971 214 pages
4.20
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Discipline and Punish Summary
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault 1975 333 pages
4.24
37k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Sociology
The Language of New Media Summary
The Language of New Media
by Lev Manovich 2001 354 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Theory
Art
Academic
A Thousand Plateaus Summary
A Thousand Plateaus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by Gilles Deleuze 1980 632 pages
4.33
7k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Homo Sacer Summary
Homo Sacer
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
by Giorgio Agamben 1994 208 pages
4.06
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
An Actor Prepares Summary
An Actor Prepares
by Constantin Stanislavski 1936 288 pages
4.09
5k+ ratings
Theatre
Film
Drama
The Crisis of Narration Summary
The Crisis of Narration
by Byung-Chul Han 2023 77 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
Phenomenology of Perception Summary
Phenomenology of Perception
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1945 544 pages
4.18
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Theory
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 579 pages
4.21
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Human Condition Summary
The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt 1958 349 pages
4.20
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
A Brief History of Neoliberalism Summary
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey 2005 247 pages
4.13
7k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Civilization and Its Discontents Summary
Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud 1930 127 pages
3.80
45k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
The Interpretation of Dreams Summary
The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud 1899 630 pages
3.84
81k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
One-Dimensional Man Summary
One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by Herbert Marcuse 1964 260 pages
3.98
7k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
The Sociological Imagination Summary
The Sociological Imagination
by C. Wright Mills 1959 248 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 126 pages
4.51
30k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
The Limits of Interpretation Summary
The Limits of Interpretation
by Umberto Eco 1990 304 pages
4.13
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Semiotics
Essays
Grading for Equity Summary
Grading for Equity
What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
by Joe Feldman 2018 296 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
Professional Development
Women, Race, & Class Summary
Women, Race, & Class
by Angela Y. Davis 1981 288 pages
4.59
35k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
Propaganda Summary
Propaganda
The Formation of Men's Attitudes
by Jacques Ellul 1962 352 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Imperialism Summary
Imperialism
The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by Vladimir Lenin 1917 192 pages
4.27
10k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Summary
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
by Ernesto Laclau 1985 198 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Truth and Method Summary
Truth and Method
by Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960 640 pages
4.17
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
German Literature
The Philosophy of Redemption Summary
The Philosophy of Redemption
by Philipp MainlΓ€nder 1876 312 pages
4.19
295 ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Theory
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