Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's ess...

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosop...

Published in 1938, The Black Jacobins tells the story of the only successful slave revolution in ...

Hannah Arendt's 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the ...

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of liter...

A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that...

How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, hist...

Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm fou...

What makes good people capable of committing bad - even evil - acts? Few psychologists are as wel...

An instant bestseller, Sacks's 1985 book argues that, by connecting with their patients and pay a...

Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines femi...

Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An...