Literary theory books

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of...  Read More >>

Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being...  Read More >>

A crititcal analysis of the first work written for the general public by the highly influential American economist...  Read More >>

David Hume’s 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology...  Read More >>

Butler’s 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many...  Read More >>

One of the most reprinted articles in the history of the Harvard Business Review, “The Core Competence of the Corporation”...  Read More >>

""In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes...  Read More >>

In his 1994 collection of essays The Location of Culture, Bhabha investigates concepts such as `hybridity’ (ideas...  Read More >>

The idea of evolution and that earth’s species descended from common ancestors had already been around for some...  Read More >>

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A critical analysis of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in which economist Thomas Piketty provides detailed...  Read More >>

Kennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers. While earlier scholars...  Read More >>

Why We Can’t Wait (1964) is arguably the most vital book by one of the most important men in US history. Martin...  Read More >>

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First published in 1790, Burke’s Reflections rejects the ideas that had inspired radical political change in France...  Read More >>

Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War II interventions...  Read More >>

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

The United States has the world’s largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says...  Read More >>

Gutiérrez’s 1971 book provides an inspiring argument as to how Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should support...  Read More >>

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What really happened when the world’s two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know...  Read More >>

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

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