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Expanded! The Verso Books Theory Sale

40% off select theory titles, including our entire Radical Thinkers series.

Verso Books31 March 2026

Expanded! The Verso Books Theory Sale

"Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses."

We've expanded our theory sale to feature more titles, including preorders on upcoming theory titles, and David Harvey's The Story of Capital!

The Theory Sale runs through April 10th at 11:59pm. This is your chance to save 40% on a selection of key texts both old and new. 

This year, we're including our entire Radical Thinkers series in the Theory Sale. Shop the full Radical Thinker series here.

Theory Sale Selections (with new additions!)

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Just added: Preorders on upcoming theory titles

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  • Capital's Grave

    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...
  • Minima Moralia

    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...
  • Valences of the Dialectic

    Valences of the Dialectic

    by Fredric Jameson

    After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic,...
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  • Culture and Politics

    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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  • Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

    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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  • The Philosophy of Praxis

    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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  • Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

    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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  • Ideologies of Theory

    Ideologies of Theory

    by Fredric Jameson

    Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work ...
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  • Fire Alarm

    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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  • Considerations on Western Marxism

    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 End

    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 ...
  • An American Utopia

    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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  • Troubled Pleasures

    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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  • The State and Revolution

    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...
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  • Marx for Our Times

    Marx for Our Times

    by Daniel Bensaïd

    Translated by Gregory Elliott

    The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history’s refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 200...
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  • Déjà Vu and the End of History

    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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  • Politics and Letters

    Politics and Letters

    by Raymond Williams

    Introduction by Geoff Dyer

    Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Bri...
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  • The Politics of Production

    The Politics of Production

    by Michael Burawoy

    In the wide ranging arguments about the fundamental tenets of Marxism nothing has had greater political significance than the theoretical questioning of the central role assigned to class struggle ...
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  • Unpaid

    Unpaid

    by Matthew Cole

    Unpaid upends conventional wisdom about how we value work, exposing wage theft as one of capitalism’s enduring open secrets. From unpaid overtime and under-the-table jobs to algorithmic exploitatio...
  • Labour, Nature, Value

    Labour, Nature, Value

    by Emanuele Leonardi

    Translated by Yari Lanci

    The promise of a capitalist green economy is to transform ecological constraints on development into business opportunities. This may sound appealing but proves problematic on closer inspection. Em...
    Paperback
    Preorder Sale price $33.95

    This book will be shipped when it is published on 28 July 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • The Rulers

    The Rulers

    by Cecilia Rikap

    Capitalism’s rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies....
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    Preorder Sale price $39.95

    This book will be shipped when it is published on 4 August 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • The Literary Workshop

    The Literary Workshop

    by Monique Wittig

    Foreword by Sande Zeig

    Translated by Ann Jefferson

    The Literary Workshop takes readers inside Monique Wittig’s creative process, unlocking the practice of writing both in material and political terms. Wittig provides her most com­plete account of h...
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    Preorder Sale price $25.95

    This book will be shipped when it is published on 14 July 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.