Book Summaries

List of book summarized on our site:

Karl Marx – The German Ideology
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto

Mary Douglas - Purity and Danger

Hegel  - Phenomenology of Spirit

Jean Baudrillard / Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard / The Gulf War Did Not Taken Place 

Baudrillard / The System of Objects 

Susan Sontag - On Photography

Judith Butler / Gender Trouble

Judith Butler / Bodies that Matter

Guy Debord/ Society of the Spectacle

Fredric Jameson – Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Dick Hebdige: Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Sigmund Freud – The Uncanny

Sigmund Freud - Mourning and Melancholia 

Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion 

Sigmund Freud - Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud - Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Sigmund Freud - Totem and Taboo

Sigmund Freud - Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish
Hardt and Negri - Empire
The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
Orientalsim / Edward Said
Jihad vs. McWorld - Barber

Soren Kierkegaard  - Fear and Trembling

Rene Descartes - Meditations of the First Philosophy

Rene Descartes - Discourse on the Method

Thomas Kuhn - he Structure of Scientific Revolutions

On Liberty / JS Mill

Herbert Marcuse / One Dimensional man

Karl Polanyi  / The Great Transformation 
Ritzer / The McDonaldization of Society 

Naomi Wolf / The Beauty Myth 

Rawls / A Theory of Justice – brief summary

Karl Popper / Conjectures and Refutations

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous 

Feminism is for Everyone by Bell Hooks

Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller

The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 

Critically Queer by Judith Butler

 Bodies that Matter by Judith Butler  

Keeping Close To Home by Bell Hooks

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Men Explain things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer 

Bell Hooks / Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Compulsory Heterosexuality by Adrienne Rich

Patricia Hill Collins / Black Feminist Thought

R.W. Connell – Masculinities

Paul Willis – Learning to Labor

The Wretched of the Earth  / Fanon 

Black Skin, White Masks / Fanon

Toward the African Revolution By Frantz Fanon

Henri Bergson / Tme and Free Will 
Bergson / Laughter 
Bergson / Creative evolution 
Bergson / The two sources of morality and religion 

Politics as a Vocation / Weber 

Hannah Arendt On Violence

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Politics of Nature by Bruno Latour

We Have Never Been Modern 

How to Do Things With Words / J.L.Austin

Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno

Erich Fromm / Escape From Freedom

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

Of Grammatology / Derrida

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

Distinction / Bourdieu

Carl Jung:

Psychological Types

Children's Dreams

Psychology and Alchemy

Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Man and His Symbols

The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious

The Red Book: Liber Novus

Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche

 Psychology and Religion: West and East 

Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature

Practice of Psychotherapy

Development of Personality

Roland Barthes:

Death of the Author

Rehtoric of the Image

On Photography

Mythologies

Myth Today

Camera Lucida (On Photography)