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
The Struggle for Recognition
The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Looking Awry
An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Critique of Judgment
Philosophy
Classics
Art
The Logic of Sense
Philosophy
Theory
France
The Conquest of Bread
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Living a Feminist Life
Feminism
Philosophy
Politics
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
How to Read Lacan
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
Grundrisse
Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Glitch Feminism
A Manifesto
Feminism
Theory
Philosophy
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Indigenous
Politics
History
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2
The Use of Pleasure
Philosophy
History
Theory
Saving the Modern Soul
Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Philosophy
Art
Theory
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A Manifesto
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
The Eyes of the Skin
Architecture and the Senses
Architecture
Art
Design
Teaching Critical Thinking
Practical Wisdom
Education
Teaching
Feminism
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Aspiration
The Agency of Becoming
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Feminism or Death
Feminism
Politics
France
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
Persuasive Games
The Expressive Power of Videogames
Games
Game Design
Video Games
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Revolution Betrayed
History
Politics
Philosophy
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy
Classics
Theory
Being And Event
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
What Is to Be Done?
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Foundations of Leninism
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
Writing and Difference
Philosophy
Theory
France
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Philosophy
Art
German Literature
Flatline Constructs
Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Feminism
Queer
Gender
Monopoly Capital
An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
Economics
Politics
History
Relational–Cultural Therapy
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
Socialism
Utopian and Scientific
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Main Currents Of Marxism
The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
Philosophy
Politics
History
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
Archaeologies of the Future
The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Extrastatecraft
The Power of Infrastructure Space
Architecture
Politics
Theory
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy
History
Reference
After Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
