Literary theory books

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

Anscombe’s 1958 paper challenged the very foundations of moral philosophy, the discipline that tries to understand...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, Competitive Strategy contradicted the accepted wisdom of the time that said firms should...  Read More >>

Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course...  Read More >>

Friedman’s 1968 paper changed the course of economic theory, rejecting existing theory and outlined an effective...  Read More >>

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Politics was one of the first books to investigate the concept of political philosophy and the starting point of...  Read More >>

Capitalism, thought Karl Marx, works by exploiting the working class. Their wages do not reflect the value of their...  Read More >>

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and...  Read More >>

After Hegemony has had a huge impact on policy debates over the last three decades. Hegemony means the social, cultural,...  Read More >>

Based on 20 months of fieldwork among the Azande people of South Sudan, Evans-Pritchard’s work became the founding...  Read More >>

Published in 1776, when America was teetering on the brink of war with Britain, Common Sense galvanized the colonists...  Read More >>

Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642–51) on its head with The World Turned Upside...  Read More >>

Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the industrial...  Read More >>

A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics...  Read More >>

In their 1990 work, Gottfredson and Hirschi introduce a new and comprehensive theory of crime. At the time, crime...  Read More >>

C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity is a perfect example of one of the most effective aspects of critical thinking skills:...  Read More >>

Nineteenth century American politician John C. Calhoun was unashamedly pro-slavery. So it may seem strange that...  Read More >>

One of the most influential books on economics ever written, Malthus' work remains one of the most controversial,...  Read More >>

Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern economic...  Read More >>

Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied...  Read More >>

René Descartes posed questions about the nature of knowledge and the nature of being that philosophers still debate...  Read More >>

Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more...  Read More >>

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