| Jean Baudrillard: The defence of the real R Butler SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999 | 302 | 1999 |
| Slavoj žižek: live theory R Butler Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005 | 186 | 2005 |
| The Žižek Dictionary R Butler Routledge, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| The illusion of illusion K Broadfoot, R Butler The illusion of life: Essays on animation, 263-98, 1991 | 32 | 1991 |
| What is appropriation?: an anthology of critical writings on Australian art in the'80s and'90s R Butler IMA, 1996 | 31 | 1996 |
| Deleuze and Guattari's' What is Philosophy?': A Reader's Guide R Butler Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| What is appropriation R Butler An Anthology of Critical Writings on Australian Art in the’80s and’90s, 1996 | 25 | 1996 |
| A secret history of Australian art RW Butler Craftsman House, 2002 | 22 | 2002 |
| Borges' short stories: a reader's guide R Butler Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 | 21 | 2010 |
| Subject R Butler The Zizek Dictionary, 238-241, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
| Baudrillard's light writing or photographic thought R Butler International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 2 (1), 1-21, 2005 | 20 | 2005 |
| ‘What Is a Master Signifier? R Butler, S Žižek Slavoj Zˇizek: Live Theory, ed. Rex Butler and Scott Stephens (New York …, 2005 | 16 | 2005 |
| Slavoj Zizek R Butler Continuum,, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| Ben Quilty: the fog of war R Butler Intellectual History Review 27 (3), 433-451, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| Radical Revisionism: an anthology of writings on Australian art RW Butler IMA Publishing, 2005 | 12 | 2005 |
| Everything and Nothing: On Jorge Luis Borges's “Kafka and His Precursors” R Butler Romance Quarterly 57 (2), 129-141, 2010 | 11 | 2010 |
| Stay, Go, or Come: A History of Australian Art, 1920–40 R Butler, ADS Donaldson Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 9 (1-2), 118-143, 2008 | 11 | 2008 |
| Slavoj Žižek zur Einführung R Butler (No Title), 2006 | 11 | 2006 |
| Against Provincialism: Australian-American Connections 1900–2000 R Butler, ADS Donaldson Journal of Australian Studies 36 (3), 291-307, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| " Bright Shadows": Art, Aboriginality, and Aura R Butler The South Atlantic Quarterly 101 (3), 501-518, 2002 | 10 | 2002 |
