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
Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
Philosophy
Psychology
Feminism
Extrastatecraft
The Power of Infrastructure Space
Architecture
Politics
Theory
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The New Black
Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
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?
Psychology
Sexuality
Psychoanalysis
Archaeologies of the Future
The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
Philosophy
Theory
Utopia
Inventing the Future
Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Essential Works of Lenin
"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Politics
Economics
History
The Eyes of the Skin
Architecture and the Senses
Architecture
Art
Design
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Philosophy
Art
Classics
The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Politics
Philosophy
History
Passwords
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Hatred of Democracy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
History
Reference
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Theory and Technique
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Philosophy
The Numbers Game
The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life
Mathematics
Science
Economics
The Man Without Content
Philosophy
Art
Theory
Methodology of the Oppressed
Feminism
Theory
Academic
Understanding Socialism
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Practical Anarchism
A Guide for Daily Life
Politics
Social Justice
Philosophy
The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Economics
History
Politics
Demanding the Impossible
A History of Anarchism
History
Politics
Philosophy
A People's Guide to Capitalism
An Introduction to Marxist Economics
Economics
Politics
History
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Philosophy
History
Theory
Democracy at Work
A Cure for Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Mushroom at the End of the World
On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anthropology
Science
Nature
The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
Philosophy
History
Sociology
Cyclonopedia
Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Philosophy
Horror
Theory
The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
Orientalism
History
Philosophy
Politics
Humour
Philosophy
Humor
Essays
Écrits
Philosophy
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
The Dark Enlightenment
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
We Do This 'til We Free Us
Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Politics
Social Justice
Race
Disaster Nationalism
The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Politics
History
Economics
Philosophy of Existence
Philosophy
Psychology
German Literature
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophy
Logic
Classics
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Fanged Noumena
Collected Writings, 1987–2007
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Radical Inclusion
What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership
Leadership
Business
Military Fiction
The Satir Model
Family Therapy and Beyond
Psychology
Counselling
Family
The Thirst for Annihilation
Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Ethics
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Dialogism
Bakhtin and His World
Philosophy
Theory
Criticism
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
