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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

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,...
Welcome to the Desert of the Real

by Slavoj Žižek
Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Žižek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11.
5 posts
The Idea of Communism 2

Edited by Slavoj Žižek
Key theorists discuss the future of communism in New York.
The Value Controversy

This volume presents, for the first time, a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the discussion over value theory.

Redesigning Distribution

by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott, et al.
Two proposals that would make capitalism much more egalitarian.
Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña
“Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico
2 posts
Towards a New Manifesto

by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
A fascinating dialogue on a new Communist Manifesto from two giants of twentieth century philosophy.
4 posts

3 discussions
Quasi Una Fantasia

by Theodor Adorno
Adorno’s own selection of his essays and journalism from more than three decades of music writing.
3 posts

Dialectic of Enlightenment

by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
A classic of twentieth-century thought
2 discussions
In Search of Wagner

by Theodor Adorno
Adorno explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis, with a foreword by Slavoj Žižek.
1 post
Minima Moralia

by Theodor Adorno
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.
2 posts
Aesthetics and Politics

by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, et al.
The most remarkable aesthetic debates in European cultural history, with an afterword by Fredric Jameson.
1 post

Infancy and History

by Giorgio Agamben
A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.
1 post
A Theory of Capitalist Regulation

by Michel Aglietta
“One of the most important and stimulating books in Marxian political economy ... for many years.”—Capital and Class
1 post
In Theory

by Aijaz Ahmad
Ahmad reworks the terrain of cultural theory in this spirited critique.
The Blue Manuscript

by Sabiha Al Khemir
An enchanting story of the search for an ancient artifact.

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