Political Theory

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  The System of Objects

  by Jean Baudrillard
  A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard. 
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  The Spirit of Terrorism

  by Jean Baudrillard
  Until September 11 we had had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself.

  3 posts

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  The Politics of Human Rights

  Edited by The Belgrade Circle

  This volume sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings of the idea of human rights by bringing together a collection of...

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  The Food Wars

  by Walden Bello
  Crucial analysis of how the West created the global food crisis.

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  Marx for Our Times

  by Daniel Bensaïd
  Shows the relevance of Marx to twenty-first century global capitalism.
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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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  Natural Relations

  by Ted Benton
  “A major advance in work on animal rights.”—Andrew Dobson
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  Labor and the Course of American Democracy

  by Charles Bergquist
  “Groundbreaking political and ideological analysis.”—Carol A. Smith, UC Davis

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  Adventures in Marxism

  by Marshall Berman
  “Marshall Berman is one of our liveliest and most generous interpreters of Marx.”—The Nation
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  Age Shock

  by Robin Blackburn
  A searing look at the fiscal crisis of an aging society, with radical new proposals.

  3 posts

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  An Unfinished Revolution

  by Robin Blackburn, Abraham Lincoln, et al.
  The impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.

  3 posts

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  Occupy!

  Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.
  The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.

  20 posts

  1 discussion

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  Liberalism and Democracy

  by Norberto Bobbio
  The longue durée of the relationship between liberalism and democracy.
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  The New Spirit of Capitalism

  by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
  A major new work examining network-based organizations and post-Fordist work structures.

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  1 discussion

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  Marx and Freud in Latin America

  by Bruno Bosteels
  The turbulent continent through the eyes of Marx and Freud.
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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