Critical Theory: Find Books and Full-Text Works

Full-text of key social theorists -- including Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck, Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Robert Merton, and Talcott Parsons.

Literary Theory traces the history of literary theory and criticism from Plato to the present. It contains over 800 works by more than 350 writers and major examples of contemporary theory.

The PEP contains the complete FULL TEXT of 26 premier journals in psychoanalysis, 56 classic psychoanalytic books, and all 24 volumes of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.

This database contains the full-text works of many important theorists and writers. Examples include Aquinas, Augustine, Bentham, Hegel, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Plato, Santayana, and Wittgenstein. Some works are in the original language of the author and all works are searchable by word and phrase.

The largest single repository of graduate dissertations and theses.

Search hundreds of pages of books that have been scanned by Google. Good place to find a needle in a haystack.

Melvyl is the discovery platform for the UC Libraries. Melvyl, powered by OCLC WorldCat Discovery, offers seamless connection to the larger research world – the ability to search hundreds of millions of items from research institutions throughout the world.