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Aisthesis

by Jacques Rancière
Rancière’s magnum opus on the aesthetic
2 posts
Che Wants to See You

by Ciro Bustos
Riveting memoir of revolution in South America by Che Guevara’s Argentine lieutenant
24/7

by Jonathan Crary
Capitalism’s colonization of every hour in the day
Soldier Box

by Joe Glenton
A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan
7 posts
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut
Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier
Victor Serge

by Susan Weissman
The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker
Distant Reading

by Franco Moretti
The formation of an unorthodox literary critic
2 posts
The Bourgeois

by Franco Moretti
Who – and what – are the Bourgeois?
2 posts
To Sin Against Hope

by Alfredo Gutierrez

A moving life story from a leading voice in America’s immigrant rights struggle.

2 posts
Anywhere or Not at All

by Peter Osborne
A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time
Against World Literature

by Emily Apter
On the problems of translation in literary study
A New Kind of Bleak

by Owen Hatherley
The urban state of the nation—from Olympic dreams to broken Britain
14 posts

Concept and Form
First systematic presentation and assessment of the groundbreaking journal Cahiers pour l’Analyse
Counterblasts
A series challenging the apologists of Empire and Capital.
Radical Thinkers
“A golden treasury of theory.”—Eric Banks, Bookforum
The Essential Žižek
The essential texts for understanding Žižek’s thought.
Verso World History
Classic works of global history, from the Ancient World to the present day.
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg
Bringing the contributions of this remarkable thinker and personality alive for new generations.
Pocket Communism
Rethinking communism for the twenty-first century.
Revolutions
Classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today’s radical writers.
The Islam Quintet
"A richly woven tapestry that merits comparison with Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy."—Kirkus Reviews
Mapping Series

Outcast London

by Gareth Stedman Jones
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of “outcast London.”...
They Can't Represent Us!

by Dario Azzellini and Marina Sitrin
How the new global movements are putting forward a radical conception of democracy.
The Faith of the Faithless

by Simon Critchley
Investigation into the dangerous interdependence of politics and religion.
19 posts
The Idea of Israel

by Ilan Pappe
A major new history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Liberalism

by Domenico Losurdo
One of Europe's leading intellectual historians deconstructs liberalism's dark side.
On the Reproduction of Capitalism

by Louis Althusser

The first translation of Althusser’s key text on ideology
The New Way of the World

by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval
An acute analysis of neoliberalism
The Muslims Are Coming!

by Arun Kundnani
The first comprehensive critique of the War on Terror's new front—the specter of domestic terrorists

Tristano

by Nanni Balestrini

A love story with infinite possibilities
The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

by Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling...
Representing Capital

by Fredric Jameson
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the...
2 posts
State, Power, Socialism

by Nicos Poulantzas
In State, Power, Socialism, the leading theorist of the state and European communism advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories...

The Ego and His Own

The Ego and His Own, the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge,...
The Melancholy Science

by Gillian Rose

The Melancholy Science is the first and foundational work from the celebrated philosopher Gillian Rose and a classic critique of critical theory.
The Philosophy of Marx

by Étienne Balibar

In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information...
A Civil War

by Claudio Pavone
The definitive account of the Italian resistance, viewed from the perspective of its protagonists.

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