Philosophy

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  The Beach Beneath the Street

  by McKenzie Wark
  A fresh history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto.

  18 posts

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  The Actuality of Communism

  by Bruno Bosteels
  A new salvo in Verso's burgeoning series on communism, after Badiou, Žižek and Groys.

  4 posts

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  Staging the People

  by Jacques Rancière
  Rancière's classic essays from the 1970s, as he was developing his distinctive method.

  3 posts

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  Living in the End Times

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Žižek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.”

  41 posts

  3 discussions

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  Contingency, Hegemony, Universality

  by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, et al.
  The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.

  3 posts

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  Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

  by Guy Debord
  “Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.”—Michael Löwy.

  6 posts

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  Machiavelli and Us

  by Louis Althusser
  “Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.

  1 post

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  Passwords

  by Jean Baudrillard
  In the spirit of Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire, Passwords offers us twelve entry points into Baudrillard’s thought.

  1 post

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  Brecht and Method

  by Fredric Jameson
  “Elegant dissection of Brecht’s method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond.”—Modern Drama

  1 post

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  The Panopticon Writings

  by Jeremy Bentham
  A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power.

  1 post

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  Freudian Slip

  by Sebastiano Timpanaro
  “A firework display of erudition.”—Perry Anderson.

  1 post

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  Critique of Economic Reason

  by André Gorz
  “Gorz’s greatest work, and a crucial book for our time.”—Le Monde.

  3 posts

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  The Politics of Time

  by Peter Osborne
  Elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition.

  2 posts

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  The Idea of Communism

  Edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek
  An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism.

  16 posts

  1 discussion

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  From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

  by Göran Therborn
  A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics.

  3 posts

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  For Marx

  by Louis Althusser
  A milestone in postwar Marxist thought, containing Althusser’s influential arguments on the epistemological break and anti-humanism.