Announcing: The Verso Books Theory Sale

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  Anthropocene Communism

  by Paul Guillibert

  Translated by Matt Reeck

  In Anthropocene Communism, the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With the aid of this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological...
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  The Alibi of Capital

  by Timothy Mitchell

  Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe o...
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  The Eye of the Master

  by Matteo Pasquinelli

  What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as i...
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  Critique of Everyday Life

  by Henri Lefebvre

  The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now availabl...
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  The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

  by Kevin B. Anderson

  In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnologic...
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  Capital's Grave

  by Jodi Dean

  Bringing together analyses from different fields—law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis—Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn’t just a m...
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  Aesthetics and Politics

  by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

  Afterword by Fredric Jameson

  No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...
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  The End

  by Joel Wainwright

  In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin influenced Capital. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating a distinctive ecological critique of capitalism ...
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  Minima Moralia

  by Theodor Adorno

  Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott

  Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-cen...
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  Late Fascism

  by Alberto Toscano

  The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist theory is an urgent and vital task. From the ‘Great ...
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  The Years of Theory

  by Fredric Jameson

  Edited by Carson Welch

  Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lect...
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  Capitalism in the Web of Life

  by Jason W. Moore

  Finance. Climate. Food. Class. How are the crises—and politics—of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turb...
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  Read My Desire

  by Joan Copjec

  In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines—psychoanalysis and histor...
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  The Limits to Capital

  by David Harvey

  Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his cla...
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  Mute Compulsion

  by Søren Mau

  Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchme...
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  Walter Benjamin

  by Terry Eagleton

  This momentous study of Benjamin’s critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton’s thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin’s approach to language, history, and art but to chart a...
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  Sexuality in the Field of Vision

  by Jacqueline Rose

  A pivotal work in the history of feminism and a groundbreaking intervention into film theory, Sexuality in the Field of Vision is a brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminis...
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  The Philosophy of Praxis

  by Andrew Feenberg

  The early Marx called for the “realization of philosophy” through revolution. Revolution thus becomes a critical philosophical concept for Marxism, a view elaborated in the later praxis philosophie...
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  Reflections on Violence

  by John Keane

  Genocidal wars, concentration camps, firebombed cities, spreading plagues of private blood-letting: the twentieth century has seen more than its fair share of violence, planned and unplanned, with ...
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  The Destruction of Reason

  by Georg Lukács

  Introduction by Enzo Traverso

  Translated by Peter Palmer

  A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukács's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally pu...
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  Troubled Pleasures

  by Kate Soper

  What happens when ‘life’s simple joys’ become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practic...
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  Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  Foreword by Fredric Jameson

  Edited by Jonathan Ree

  Translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith

  At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellect...
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  Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  Foreword by Fredric Jameson

  Edited by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre

  Translated by Quintin Hoare

  Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958...
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  Culture and Politics

  by Raymond Williams

  Introduction by Phil O'Brien

  Edited by Phil O'Brien

  Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of culture and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which...
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  A Social History of Analytic Philosophy

  by Christoph Schuringa

  Analytic philosophy is the leading form of philosophy in the English-speaking world. What explains its continued success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can only be understood b...
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  Against Method

  by Paul Feyerabend

  Introduction by Ian Hacking

  Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of kno...
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  Fire Alarm

  by Michael Löwy

  Translated by Chris Turner

  Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism — Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifi...
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  The Value Controversy

  Contributions by Pradeep Bandyopadhyay, G.A. Cohen, Michel De Vroey, Sue Himmelweit, Geoff Hodgson, Makoto Itoh, Anwar Shaikh, Paul Sweezy and Erik Olin Wright

  Edited by Ian Steedman

  One of the fruits of the revival of socialist economic theory over the past decade has been a wide-ranging debate about the validity of Marx’s labour theory of value. At the heart of the discussion...
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  Considerations on Western Marxism

  by Perry Anderson

  This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Ru...
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  The Hidden God

  by Lucien Goldmann

  Preface by Michael Löwy

  Translated by Philip Thody

  This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consc...
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  Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

  by Guy Debord

  Translated by Malcolm Imrie

  First published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration...
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  Cannibal Capitalism

  by Nancy Fraser

  Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for e...
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  Analytical Marxism

  by Marcus Roberts

  In the 1980s, leading philosophers at Oxford, Chicago and UCLA undertook a controversial reassessment of Marxism using the techniques of analytical philosophy. The aim of these so-called “Non-Bulls...
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  The Political Writings

  by Karl Marx

  Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. For the first time ever, this book brings together all of his essential political...
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  Marxist Modernism

  by Gillian Rose

  Afterword by Martin Jay

  Edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott

  Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers: ...
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  Revolutionary Mathematics

  by Justin Joque

  Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these metho...
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  Adventures in Marxism

  by Marshall Berman

  A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The attention attracted by the 150th anniversary of The Co...
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  Metaphilosophy

  by Henri Lefebvre

  Edited by Stuart Elden

  Translated by David Fernbach

  In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world becom...
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  Reading Capital

  by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière

  Translated by Ben Brewster and David Fernbach

  Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosophe...
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  New Radical Enlightenment

  by Marina Garcés

  Translated by Julie Wark

  Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which Ma...
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  An American Utopia

  by Fredric Jameson

  Contributions by Jodi Dean, Saroj Giri, Agon Hamza, Kojin Karatani, Kim Stanley Robinson, Frank Ruda and Kathi Weeks

  Edited by Slavoj Žižek

  Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal co...
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  Déjà Vu and the End of History

  by Paolo Virno

  Translated by David Broder

  This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another?...
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  The Origin of Capitalism

  by Ellen Meiksins Wood

  In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, im...
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  Sex-pol

  by Wilhelm Reich

  Introduction by Bertell Ollman

  Edited by Lee Baxandall

  Translated by Anna Bostock

  This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich’s writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human s...
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  Unexceptional Politics

  by Emily Apter

  Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, b...
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  Fortunes of Feminism

  by Nancy Fraser

  Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a dec...
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  Splinters in Your Eye

  by Martin Jay

  Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to ...
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  The State and Revolution

  by V. I. Lenin

  Introduction by Antonio Negri

  Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional s...