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Philosophy at the End of the World

Featuring Ben Ware, Elsa Dorlin, Judith Butler, Frédéric Gros, and more.

5 April 2024

Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need.

New books from Verso's Philosophy list includes Ben Ware's On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End, and New Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy for a Common World by Marina Garcés.

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  • On Extinction

    On Extinction

    by Ben Ware

    On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching...
  • Disobey!

    Disobey!

    by Frédéric Gros

    Translated by David Fernbach

    The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, ec...
    Paperback

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  • Self-Defense

    Self-Defense

    by Elsa Dorlin

    Translated by Kieran Aarons

    Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disar...
  • Non-Places

    Non-Places

    by Marc Augé

    Translated by John Howe

    An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge c...
  • The Future

    The Future

    by Marc Augé

    Translated by John Howe

    For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and pr...
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  • Psychopolitics

    Psychopolitics

    by Byung-Chul Han

    Translated by Erik Butler

    Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower...
    Paperback (2017)

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  • Humankind

    Humankind

    by Timothy Morton

    What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Accl...
  • Heroes

    Heroes

    by Franco Berardi

    What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wav...
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  • Metaphilosophy

    Metaphilosophy

    by Henri Lefebvre

    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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  • 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...
  • One-Way Street

    One-Way Street

    by Walter Benjamin

    Introduction by Susan Sontag

    Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter

    Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings...
  • The Politics of Friendship

    The Politics of Friendship

    by Jacques Derrida

    Translated by George Collins

    Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future in ord...
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  • The Authoritarian Personality

    The Authoritarian Personality

    by Theodor Adorno

    What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality, written in the shadow of Fascism and the Holocaust, looked t...
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