Archive of Aesthetics and Politics

Challenge yourself with new discoveries in our Radical Thinkers series.

Find the perfect book: all $13 or below! We bring you a selection of highlights: from bestsellers now available in paperback to some Verso classics.

Our Critical Theory reading for the academic year ahead.

Our Philosophy student reading.

A definitive list of books that you need to read.

Our art and aesthetics reading for the academic year ahead.

Was Walter Benjamin a refugee or a migrant? Would he be considered as one or the other today? Is this what it means to actualise, to make contemporary, to bring Walter Benjamin into the Now?

On the anniversary of Walter Benjamin's birth, we republish Esther Leslie's Walter Benjamin: The Refugee and Migrant.

From Verso's own list as well as from the shelves of some other great publishers, a selection of key Marxist art and literary theory titles to mark the bicentenary of Marx's birth – including John Berger's proposal for 'revolutionary art', Susan Sontag's essay 'Notes on Camp', Michele Wallace's virtuosic Invisibility Blues and much more.

A collection of aphorisms on music written by Theodor Adorno between 1927 and 1951.
 

To mark the publication of Stuart Jeffries' Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School we're publishing excerpts and pieces related to Frankfurt School thinkers. Grand Hotel Abyss is now out in paperback and 30% off.