Since it first started publishing in 1975, Verso has always taken pains to be at the forefront of critical debates. To celebrate this success Verso is relaunching twelve of its classic titles, written by some of their most respected and influential authors.

From Althusser, who overturned the philosophical study of Marx, to Jean Baudrillard who heralded the dawn of the postmodern era, to Raymond Williams who introduced the study of contemporary culture — these are the greats. As well as being landmarks in philosophy and cultural theory that had a profound effect on thought when they were published, they are also classics that continue to stimulate contemporary readers.

“A golden treasury of theory” — Eric Banks, Bookforum

“Verso’s beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The 12 authors whose writings are included in the series have worked tirelessly to expose the mechanisms by which culture and knowledge are manufactured, managed and controlled.” — Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman

Radical Thinkers – Twelve Great Minds: Twelve Great Books

Theodor Adorno – Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Louis Althusser – For Marx

Jean Baudrillard – The System of Objects

Norberto Bobbio – Liberalism and Democracy

Jacques Derrida – The Politics of Friendship

Terry Eagleton – The Function of Criticism

Franco Moretti – Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms

Chantal Mouffe – The Return of the Political

Jacqueline Rose – Sexuality in the Field of Vision

Paul Virilio – The Information Bomb

Raymond Williams – Culture and Materialism

Slavoj Zizek – The Metastases of Enjoyment

Radical Thinkers: Set 2

Theodor Adorno et al. – Aesthetics and Politics: Debates between Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács

Giorgio Agamben – Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience

Louis Althusser – Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx

Jean Baudrillard – Fragments

Peter Dews – Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory

Fredric Jameson – Late Marxism: Adorno: Or, The Persistence of the Dialectic

Ernesto Laclau – Emancipation(s)

Antonio Negri – Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology, and the Bourgeois Project

Jacques Ranciere – On the Shores of Politics

Paul Virilio – Strategy of Deception

Raymond Williams – Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists

Slavoj Zizek – The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters

Radical Thinkers: Set 3

Aijaz Ahmad – In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures

Louis Althusser – On Ideology

Etienne Balibar – Spinoza and Politics

Jean Baudrillard – The Perfect Crime

Roy Bhaskar – A Realist Theory of Science

Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleston, et al. – Ghostly Demarcations

Herbert Marcuse – A Study of Authority

Kristin Ross – The Emergence of Social Space

Jean-Paul Sartre – Between Existentialism and Marxism

Göran Therborn – What Does the Rulling Class Do When It Rules?

Paul Virilio – Open Sky

Slavoj Zizek – For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor