Critical Theory reading list

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Overview

A reading list made up of Louisa Toxværd Munch's (critical theory PhD student on TikTok) suggested books on critical theory and related themes.  

Challenge Books

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

Capitalist Realism

Mark Fisher

The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han

The Burnout Society

Byung-Chul Han

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Theodor W. Adorno

Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism

Theodor W. Adorno

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Futures #6

Byung-Chul Han

Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves by Todd McGowan

Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves

Todd McGowan

Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International by Jacques Derrida

Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

Jacques Derrida

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Mark Fisher