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 German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Orientalism
History
Philosophy
Politics
Cyclonopedia
Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Philosophy
Horror
Theory
Essential Works of Lenin
"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The People’s Republic of Walmart
How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Economics
Politics
History
Is It Ever Just Sex?
Sexuality
Psychology
Theory
The True Life
Philosophy
Psychology
Theory
The New Black
Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Economics
Politics
Finance
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Theory and Technique
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Philosophy
Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
Philosophy
Psychology
Feminism
Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life
Technology
Design
Politics
Pedagogy of Freedom
Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Inventing the Future
Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Politics
Economics
History
The Invention of Tradition
History
Anthropology
Sociology
Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
History
Reference
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Philosophy
Art
Classics
Fanged Noumena
Collected Writings, 1987–2007
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Methodology of the Oppressed
Feminism
Theory
Philosophy
The Man Without Content
Philosophy
Art
Theory
Notes on Resistance
Politics
History
Theory
Écrits
Philosophy
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Ethics
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Liquid Surveillance
A Conversation
Sociology
Philosophy
Theory
Hatred of Democracy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
A New Foreign Policy
Beyond American Exceptionalism
Politics
History
International Relations
Passwords
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Dark Enlightenment
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Satir Model
Family Therapy and Beyond
Psychology
Counselling
Family
The Numbers Game
The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News,in Politics, and in Life
Mathematics
Science
Economics
Understanding Socialism
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Democracy at Work
A Cure for Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Nations and Nationalism since 1780
Programme, Myth, Reality
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Thirst for Annihilation
Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Demanding the Impossible
A History of Anarchism
History
Politics
Philosophy
Humour
Philosophy
Humor
Essays
The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
Philosophy
History
Sociology
Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
Economics
Finance
Politics
The Birth of the Clinic
An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Philosophy
History
Medicine
Introduction to Documentary
Film
School
Theory
Why Can't We Sleep
Psychology
Science
Psychoanalysis
Disaster Nationalism
The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Politics
History
Philosophy
Agonistics
Thinking the World Politically
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Translator's Invisibility
A History of Translation
Language
History
Linguistics
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
What Is Property?
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
