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Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
This is a profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance. In "Frames of War",...
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A Child in Palestine
Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered...
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Islams and Modernities
Frequently portrayed as intolerant, medieval and barbaric, Islam has replaced Communism as the main perceived threat to Western civilization and...
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The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and Other Essays
Written over the last four decades, these provocative essays and diary entries explore the links between literature, history and politics. Training a...
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Walter Benjamin
This momentous study of Benjamin’s critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton’s thought. As the subtitle suggests, its goal is not merely...
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Pocket Pantheon
In this accessible work, France’s leading radical thinker takes his readers on an incisive journey through twentieth-century philosophy. On the way...
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Saviours and Survivors
Penetrating analysis of the crisis in Darfur and of the ideological language of genocide.
Saviours and Survivors is the first account of the...
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Beyond Black and White
The scourge of racism haunts the US as persistently as it ever did and, faced with a renascent right, this state ot affairs is getting worse, not...
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Non-Places
“Shopping malls, motorways, airport lounges — we are all familiar with these curious spaces which are both everywhere and nowhere. But only now...
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A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma
Unique account of cinema’s most influential journal
Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded...
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The American Crucible
A landmark history of the rise and abolition of slavery in the New World.
The acclaimed historian of slavery furnishes a panoramic view of...
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Atheism in Christianity
In recent years religious faith has come under much scrutiny from secular progressives. Fear of a rise in Islamic and Christian fundamentalism has...
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The Prophet
“Surely this must be counted among the greatest biographies in the English language.” — Graham Greene
“Trotsky’s epic defence of the...
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After the Party: Corruption and the ANC
The first insider’s exposé of the African National Congress. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC member of parliament, recounts how Mandela”s...
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The Plague of Fantasies
Explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives - whether through...
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The Future of the Image
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...
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From Marxism to Post-Marxism
In this succinct and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and accessible to the general reader—one of the world’s leading social...
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A Study on Authority
The theorist of radical liberation analyszes what it is that causes oppression.
“Marcuse brought a forceful clarity to the leftist table; a...
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My Teaching
Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, My Teaching is a clear, concise...
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Damming the Flood
Once the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long been one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In the...
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The Blue Manuscript
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...
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Politics of Modernism
Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist...
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In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures
After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the...
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On Ideology
A classic philosophical study on how political and cultural ideas come to dominate.
“One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his...
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