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The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
4.03 average rating, · 24.2k ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard
4.20 average rating, · 15.3k ratings
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes
4.08 average rating, · 17.5k ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
4.61 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
4.00 average rating, · 17.2k ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault
4.08 average rating, · 14.9k ratings
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
4.13 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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Returning to Reims
Didier Eribon
4.24 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Michel Foucault
4.12 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
Michel Foucault
4.11 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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The Local School
Colin Phelan
4.27 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx
4.20 average rating, · 6.1k ratings
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Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Mona Chollet
4.03 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Peter Pomerantsev
4.04 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss
4.14 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett Fischer
4.38 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Les ingénieurs du chaos
Giuliano da Empoli
4.22 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Distinction
Pierre Bourdieu
4.16 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Beauté fatale : Les nouveaux visages d'une aliénation féminine
Mona Chollet
4.12 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Michel Foucault
4.29 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Foucault Reader
Michel Foucault
4.06 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
Lenora Chu
4.15 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Chris Arnade
4.07 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Richard Dowden
4.13 average rating, · 2k ratings
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