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Spinoza and Politics
With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy...
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A Realist Theory of Science
The founding text of the philosophical movement of critical realism.
“Compelling reading and as a contribution to the social sciences it deserves...
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Ghostly Demarcations
With the publication of Spectres of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His...
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Between Existentialism and Marxism
A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism.
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in...
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The Emergence of Social Space
A thrilling rise through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.
“A rare example of cultural studies done with zest...
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What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules
The radical sociologist analyzes the practices of the elite.
“A fundamental contribution both to the political sociology of state institutions in...
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Tariq Ali Presents Fidel Castro
In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin...
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Jean–Bertrand Aristide Presents Toussaint L’Ouverture
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and...
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Wu Ming Presents Thomas Müntzer
The Reformation was originally an attack on a corrupt Church, sparked by Martin Luther. Thomas Müntzer, originally Luther’s protégé, became...
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The Meaning of Sarkozy
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,...
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For They Know Not What They Do
A groundbreaking analysis of the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics.
"Verso's beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series,...
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In Defense of Lost Causes
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all kinds have...
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Infinitely Demanding
Infinitely Demanding is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and...
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Fables of Agression
The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists - Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats - who were his sometime...
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The Returns of Zionism
In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late...
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The Thin Blue Line
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 rights....
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Hold Everything Dear
Hold Everything Dear is John Berger’s vital response to today’s global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to...
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The Perfect Crime
In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he...
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From A to X: A Story in Letters
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender,...
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Music Quickens Time
In this eloquent new book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance...
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Infancy and History
How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience?...
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Walter Benjamnin’s Archive
The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life,...
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If I Am Not for Myself
If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the...
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