Literary theory books

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How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating...  Read More >>

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American author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to New...  Read More >>

""How do we know what knowledge is? In his remarkable 1963 article, Gettier proves that Plato's 2000-year-old definition...  Read More >>

Published in 1651, Leviathan examines where kings get their authority to rule and what they must, in turn, do for...  Read More >>

Do we need religion to be good people? When Immanuel Kant tackled this question in 1793, he produced a book that...  Read More >>

The Sociological Imagination provoked hostile reaction when it appeared for its hard-hitting attack on how sociology...  Read More >>

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Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, challenged conventional thinking about democracy when it first...  Read More >>

William worked on The Principles of Psychology throughout the 1880s, while teaching psychology and philosophy at...  Read More >>

One of the most vital and controversial works in twentieth-century world moral philosophy, After Virtue (1981) examines...  Read More >>

Hegel's most influential work introduces the idea that philosophical truths are inseparable from the history of...  Read More >>

Du Bois's 1903 examination of the plight of African Americans is widely recognized as among the most important ever...  Read More >>

Rawls' 1971 text links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and...  Read More >>

Though written more than 500 years ago, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is still both widely read and very influential....  Read More >>

Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and 1800 in both Europe and Asia. Many thinkers...  Read More >>

Hume's 1779 book on the existence of God remains vastly influential. Using the conceit of a cleverly crafted fictional...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1861, Mill's great work systematically details and defends the doctrine of utilitarianism....  Read More >>

C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is subtitled 'Reflections on Education With Special Reference to the Teaching...  Read More >>

Gordon W. Allport's 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice not only helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate...  Read More >>

Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the final destination...  Read More >>

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