Frequently Misread

Referenced Often - Understood Rarely

These works are not misread because they are unclear.
They are misread because they are too easily recruited into moral, heroic, or simplified narratives that neutralize their analytic danger.

Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism
Max Weber — Economy and Society
Michel Foucault — Discipline and Punish
Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth
Edward Said — Orientalism
Karl Marx — Capital, Volume I
Immanuel Kant — Political essays
Alexis de Tocqueville — Democracy in America