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

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Simulacra and Simulation

The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Jean Baudrillard

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

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

On Critical Pedagogy by Henry A. Giroux

On Critical Pedagogy

Henry A. Giroux

To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche by Erich Fromm

To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

Erich Fromm

The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change by C. J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky

The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change

C. J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West by Wendy Brown

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

Wendy Brown

One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse

One-Dimensional Man

Herbert Marcuse

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud by Herbert Marcuse

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud

Herbert Marcuse

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

bell hooks

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Kristen R. Ghodsee