Literary theory books

Turner's much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern American character-and...  Read More >>

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Some people imagine that nationhood is as old as civilization itself, but Anderson argues that ""nation"" and ""nationalism""...  Read More >>

Rousseau's famous work sets out the radical concept of the 'social contract': a give-and-take relationship between...  Read More >>

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

Edited and produced from the lecture notes of his students at the University of Geneva, the Course in General Linguistics...  Read More >>

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A game-changer when it was first published in 1961, Who Governs? remains one of the most influential political science...  Read More >>

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In this provocative 1949 work, Ryle proposes that what we think of as the ""mind"" is little more than an illusion....  Read More >>

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Considered the father of the philosophical movement known as Christian existentialism, which focuses on the living...  Read More >>

In Beyond God, Neitzsche explores what society might look like if we were brave enough to emerge fully from the...  Read More >>

In this 1920 collection of early critical essays, Eliot proposes rules for how a poet should relate to a poem and...  Read More >>

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Written in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of...  Read More >>

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

Published anonymously by Locke in 1689, Two Treatises claims that a monarch's right to rule does not come from God,...  Read More >>

Maslow's 1943 essay established his idea of humanistic psychology as a ""third force"" in the field. While psychoanalysts...  Read More >>

One of the most significant works of political philosophy, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) defines and defends...  Read More >>

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As recently as the 1920s, the lack of great female writers was often considered evidence of women's inferiority....  Read More >>

Much of what we now know about the influence of early childhood environments on delinquency and anti-social behavior...  Read More >>

'Politics as a Vocation' examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action...  Read More >>

Milgram's book describes the landmark psychology experiment he conducted as a young researcher at Yale in the 1960s....  Read More >>