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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
4.35 average rating, · 34.2k ratings
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes
4.35 average rating, · 14.5k ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
4.03 average rating, · 24.2k ratings
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes
4.08 average rating, · 17.5k 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
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
4.40 average rating, · 9k 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 Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir
4.17 average rating, · 8.4k ratings
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze
4.34 average rating, · 7.2k 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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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
4.00 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
4.18 average rating, · 6.5k ratings
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx
4.20 average rating, · 6.1k ratings
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What Is to Be Done?
Vladimir Lenin
4.12 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 6k ratings
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Nietzsche and Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze
4.22 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Difference and Repetition
Gilles Deleuze
4.26 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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The Laugh of the Medusa
Hélène Cixous
4.19 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Distinction
Pierre Bourdieu
4.16 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.17 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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S/Z: An Essay
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
Vladimir Lenin
4.19 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Un féminisme décolonial
Françoise Vergès
4.33 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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