Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? This work takes on the reigning ideology with a plea...
Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, E. J. Hobsbawm
In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism entrenched itself globally in its modern, neoliberal form. Its ascendance was so...
In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have...
In this accessible work, France’s leading radical thinker takes his readers on an incisive journey through twentieth-century philosophy. On the...
Explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives - whether through...
Ursula Marx (red.), Gudrun Schwarz (red.), Michael Schwarz (red.)
The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life,...
Letters from the heroic German revolutionary to her comrades, friends and lovers. This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa...
A lyrical and thought-provoking record of the last year in the life of the Nobel Prize–winning novelist. Thought-provoking and lyrical, The...
The leading continental philosopher takes on the standard bearer of analytical philosophy. Alain Badiou takes on...
Georges Bataille was one of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time. These essays, the result of...
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In...
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: in 2011 we all witnessed (and participated in) a series of shattering events....
Hitchcock gets onto the analyst's couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors bring to...
In his latest book, Jean Baudrillard contemplates Western culture “after the orgy” — the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the...
Jean Baudrillard og Philippe Petit
To many, Baudrillard's writings are too abstract to comprehend and analyze; to some, they resemble poetry more than...
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the...
The idea that we should “do something” to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human...
Infinitely Demanding is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and...
Slavoj Zizek's work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture,...
"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation."--"The New Yorker"...
"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation."--"The New Yorker"...
In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis - following on from his bestselling "Welcome to the Desert...
This is a profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance. In...
A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this nuanced overview of American Marxism is neither an attack on Marxism nor a defense of it as the...
This momentous study of Benjamin’s critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton’s thought. As the subtitle suggests, its goal is not...
Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and...
The Reformation was originally an attack on a corrupt Church, sparked by Martin Luther. Thomas Müntzer, originally...
Erik Olin Wright (red.) og Archon Fung (red.)
The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the...
Joshua Cohen (red.) og Joel Rogers (red.)
As the tasks of the state become more complex and the size of polities larger, the institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the...
John E. Roemer og Erik Olin Wright (red.)
How is it possible to translate egalitarian ideals into practical policy? in this second volume of the Real Utopias Project, John Roemer proposes the...
Samuel Bowles og Herbert Gintis
In Recasting Egailtarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malaise of the...
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of...
Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott, Phillipe Van Parijs
Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and...
The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This major new work intervenes...
The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasures. But does it still exist, and if so, can it be found? In search of...
A major work of modern history and political analysis, The New-Old World punctures both domestic and American myths about continental Europe....
Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Written in...
The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period....
“Shopping malls, motorways, airport lounges — we are all familiar with these curious spaces which are both everywhere and nowhere. But...
Alain Badiou, in this sharp and focused intervention, claims that, in and of itself, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President is not an event,...
