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Deepening Democracy
The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the...
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A Singular Modernity
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In...
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real
On September 11, the USA was given the opportunity to realize what kind of a world it was a part of. It might have taken this opportunity - but it...
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The Fragile Absolute
With typical brio and boldness, Slavoj Zizek argues in The Fragile Absloute that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to...
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The Ticklish Subject
A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject. Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and...
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Recasting Egalitarianism
In Recasting Egailtarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malaise of the...
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Associations and Democracy
As the tasks of the state become more complex and the size of polities larger, the institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the...
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The Love Germ
Place: Latin Quarter, Paris. Date: May 1968. Cast: Polly, Giorgio, Jane, Anna, Arthur and a thousand rioting students. Plot: Polly accepts that it...
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Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit
To many, Baudrillard's writings are too abstract to comprehend and analyze; to some, they resemble poetry more than philosophical texts. Whatever one...
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The Politics of Friendship
“O, my friends, there is no friend.” The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political...
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Plague of Fantasies
Slavoj Zizek is, without doubt, one of the most stimulating and vibrant thinkers of our time, and his idiosyncratic blend of Lacan and Hegel is...
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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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Equal Shares
How is it possible to translate egalitarian ideals into practical policy? in this second volume of the Real Utopias Project, John Roemer proposes the...
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The Transparency of Evil
In his latest book, Jean Baudrillard contemplates Western culture “after the orgy” — the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the 1960s. The...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan
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"A modernist work of art is by definition 'incomprehensible"; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a trauma which undermines the...
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the...
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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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Homo Juridicus; On the Antropological Function of the Law
In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse. He argues that religion and...
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Beyond Black & White
The scourge of racism haunts the United States as persistently as it ever did. Life expectancy for black men is now below retirement age. Average...
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Impossible Exchange
Jean Baudrillard's now familiar investigations into reality and hyper-reality shift here into a more metaphysical frame. Working his way through...
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Voice of Hizbollah
This is the first English translation of the statements of the leader of Lebanon's "Party of God", in a comprehensive edition. In July...
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