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Radio Benjamin
From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the...
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The Intervals of Cinema
The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Ranciere relates...
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Riot. Strike. Riot
Political theorist Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois....
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The Dilemmas of Lenin
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin – Without Lenin there would have been no socialist...
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Heroes. Mass Murder and Suicide
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage...
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Déjà Vu and the End of History
This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and...
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The Dialectic of Sex
Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was...
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The Happiness Industry
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all...
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The Rise of Islamic State
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements,...
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Marxism in the United States
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...
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The Freud Scenario
In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers...
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Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
A provocative intellectual assault on the Subalternists' foundational work.
Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a...
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The Poorer Nations
A truly global history that examines the prospects of a worldwide power shift from North to South.
In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided...
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Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy
The leading continental philosopher takes on the standard bearer of analytical philosophy.
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the...
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The Communist Manifesto
In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism entrenched itself globally in its modern, neoliberal form. Its ascendance was so...
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The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: in 2011 we all witnessed (and participated in) a series of shattering events. Emancipatory dreams mobilized...
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Less Than Nothing
For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape:...
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War Diaries
During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his...
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Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory
Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student...
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Karl Marx and World Literature
“Very few men”, said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer's highly...
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The Notebook
A lyrical and thought-provoking record of the last year in the life of the Nobel Prize–winning novelist.
Thought-provoking and lyrical, The...
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The Tailor of Ulm
Nineteen years have passed since the Italian Communists' last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a...
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Representing Capital
A radical rereading of Marx’s central work by the prolific cultural theorist and philosopher.
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first...
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Brecht and Method
“Elegant dissection of Brecht’s method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond.”—Modern Drama
The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much...
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