16 Top theory books like The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left by Stuart Hall

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The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left

By: Stuart Hall

4.29

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

Stuart Hall's writings on the political impact of Margaret Thatcher have established him as the mos…

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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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2. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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3. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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4. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. On Populist Reason

By: Ernesto Laclau

3.43

Format: 344 pages,

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony

By: Perry Anderson

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony Few terms are so widely used in the liter… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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9. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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10. Selections from the Prison Notebooks

By: Antonio Gramsci , None , Quintin Hoare , Geoffrey Nowell Smith

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An extensive anthology, including his most important writings while in prison on philosophy, histor… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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11. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

By: Judith Butler

4.21

Format: 324 pages,

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisa… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics

By: Chantal Mouffe , Ernesto Laclau

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the cent… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

13. The Rachel Papers

By: Martin Amis

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of … read more

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14. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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15. Monsieur Pain

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.09

Format: None pages,

A un discipulo de Mesmer le encargan que cure el hipo que sufre un sudamericano pobre abandonado en… read more

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16. We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales

By: Julio Cortázar

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

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17. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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18. Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas

By: Eka Kurniawan

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Di puncak rezim yang penuh kekerasan, kisah ini bermula dari satu peristiwa: dua orang polisi memer… read more

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19. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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21. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

22. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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23. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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24. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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25. A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie

By: Dan Evans

4.22

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most po… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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26. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller

28. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

By: Gavin Mueller

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologie… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners' autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalis…"

-Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

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29. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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30. The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture

By: Mark Bould

3.57

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies to Fast and Furious, how climate anxiety permeates our cul… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
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31. The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left

By: Stuart Hall

4.29

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

Stuart Hall's writings on the political impact of Margaret Thatcher have established him as the mos… read more

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14 Top history books like The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left by Stuart Hall

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

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19 Top politics books like A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie by Dan Evans

Transform Your Habits

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

4.09

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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