Radical Thinkers
“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.”—Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman
Books in this series
Radical Thinkers Set 6
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Anti-Systemic Movements
by Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, et al.
Peerless examination of the rise of social movements against the global capitalist system, conducted by the leading exponents of the “world systems” perspective.
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Ethics of the Real
Fascinating study of the relationship between the philosopher and the psychoanalyst by major Slovenian scholar. -
Immanuel Kant
The classic introductory text to Kant's legacy and philosophy. -
Impossible Exchange
Jean Baudrillard's now familiar investigations into reality and hyper-reality shift here into a more metaphysical frame. -
Introduction to Modernity
The sociologist and philosopher analyses the dawning of modernity. -
The Mental and the Material
Groundbreaking examination of the relationship between thought, economy and society.
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Metapolitics
Metapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection.by Alain Badiou
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Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists
Collected here are Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from 1965 to 1978. -
Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory
Analysis of the role of ideology in political movements. -
Politics and the Other Scene
Essays on politics by the pupil of Althusser. -
Quasi Una Fantasia
Adorno’s own selection of his essays and journalism from more than three decades of music writing.
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War Diaries
The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.
Radical Thinkers Set 5
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Brecht and Method
“Elegant dissection of Brecht’s method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond.”—Modern Drama
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Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
“Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.”—Michael Löwy.by Guy Debord
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
by Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, et al.
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.
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Critique of Economic Reason
by André Gorz
“Gorz’s greatest work, and a crucial book for our time.”—Le Monde.
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Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
by Hal Foster
“Design and Crime is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout.”—Greil Marcus
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Freudian Slip
“A firework display of erudition.”—Perry Anderson.
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Machiavelli and Us
“Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.
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The Panopticon Writings
A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power. -
Passwords
In the spirit of Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire, Passwords offers us twelve entry points into Baudrillard’s thought.
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The Politics of Time
Elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition.
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Postmodern Geographies
“One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written.”—David Harvey
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Race, Nation, Class
by Étienne Balibar, and Immanuel Wallerstein
The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.
Radical Thinkers Set 4
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The Cultural Turn
An accessible introduction to the key writings on postmodernism by the influential Marxist critic.
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The Democratic Paradox
A new understanding of democracy that acknowledges the inescapable and essential antagonism in its workings.
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Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity
Powerful and provocative, explores the relation of ethical experience to politics. -
Hegel Contra Sociology
A radical new assessment of Hegel revealing the problems and limitations of sociological method.by Gillian Rose
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In Search of Wagner
Adorno explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis, with a foreword by Slavoj Žižek.
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Lenin
by Georg Lukács
A trenchant account of Leninism from a giant of Marxist philosophy.
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The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Benjamin's most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism.
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Panegyric
by Guy Debord
An audacious autobiography by the founding figure of the Situationist International.
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Reading Capital
by Louis Althusser, and Étienne Balibar
A landmark of French thought, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations.
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The Transparency of Evil
Sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture, after the ‘orgy’ of the 1960s.
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Walter Benjamin
A classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.
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War and Cinema
by Paul Virilio
A rich and suggestive analysis of military “ways of seeing”
Radical Thinkers Set 3
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Between Existentialism and Marxism
A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism.
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The Emergence of Social Space
by Kristin Ross
A thrilling ride through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.
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For They Know Not What They Do
by Slavoj Žižek
The eminent philosopher explodes the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics and culture.
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Ghostly Demarcations
Edited by Michael Sprinker
Major theorists discuss the renowned philosopher Jacques Derrida's most political and controversial work.
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In Theory
by Aijaz Ahmad
Ahmad reworks the terrain of cultural theory in this spirited critique.
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On Ideology
The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society.
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Open Sky
by Paul Virilio
A passionate critique of information technology and the global media.
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The Perfect Crime
Baudrillard investigates the murder of reality—“the most important event of modern history.”
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A Realist Theory of Science
by Roy Bhaskar
The foundational text for the philosophical movement of critical realism.
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Spinoza and Politics
by Étienne Balibar, and Warren Montag
A rich analysis of Spinoza's key works, in the context of his political and ideological associations.
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A Study on Authority
The great theorist of radical liberation analyzes the relationship between authority and freedom.
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What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?
The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.
Radical Thinkers Set 2
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Aesthetics and Politics
by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, et al.
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.
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Emancipation(s)
Laclau argues that the changes of the late twentieth century have altered Enlightenment notions of emancipation.
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Fragments
Disturbing and vivid meditations on the meanings of objects and sensations.
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The Indivisible Remainder
by Slavoj Žižek
Confronts Schelling with Hegel, and illuminates popular culture and modern subjectivity.
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Infancy and History
A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.
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Late Marxism
A lively and lucid introduction to the work of Theodor Adorno.
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Logics of Disintegration
by Peter Dews
A major work of Marxist theory—rigorous, clear-minded and well-researched.
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On the Shores of Politics
Returning politics to its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent.
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Political Descartes
"One of the most significant figures of current political thought."—New Statesman
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Politics and History
Enlightenment advances towards a science of politics, and Marx's relationship to Hegel.
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Politics of Modernism
The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art.
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Strategy of Deception
by Paul Virilio
A trenchant critique of new techniques of waging war, and its reduction to images on a screen.
Radical Thinkers Set 1
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Culture and Materialism
A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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For Marx
A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought.
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The Function of Criticism
A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida.
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The Information Bomb
by Paul Virilio
Virilio's exploration of the relationship between technology, war and information technology.
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Liberalism and Democracy
The longue durée of the relationship between liberalism and democracy.
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The Metastases of Enjoyment
by Slavoj Žižek
The status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
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Minima Moralia
"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature."—Susan Sontag
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The Politics of Friendship
Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences.
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The Return of the Political
A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism.
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Sexuality in the Field of Vision
Feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
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Signs Taken for Wonders
A compelling account of the relations between high and mass culture, across various genres.
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The System of Objects
A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard.
Radical Thinkers Classics
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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.
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Culture and Materialism
A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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For Marx
A milestone in postwar Marxist thought, containing Althusser’s influential arguments on the epistemological break and anti-humanism.
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Minima Moralia
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.