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LAST CHANCE - FLASH EBOOK GIVEAWAY!

Last chance to download ALL the free ebooks from our student reading – for this weekend only!

Verso Books27 September 2019

LAST CHANCE - FLASH EBOOK GIVEAWAY!

We have made ALL the ebooks from our flash giveaways available to download for the final weekend of our Student Reading sale! Dive into the lives of the Frankfurt school in Grand Hotel Abyss, explore Henri Lefebvre's key philosophical work Metaphilosophy, discover marxist feminism in Women's Oppression Today, and much more.

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These free ebooks will expire on Monday, September 30th, at 23:59 EDT.

All the books from our student reading lists will be 50% off until September 30th at 23:59 EDT - click here for full information.

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Who were the Frankfurt School—Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today? Grand Hotel Abyss is a key text on our Critical Theory reading list.

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Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time. One of the key texts on our Race and Ethnicity reading list.

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A clear and compact guide to Marx’s road to Das Kapital and one of the texts on our Against Neoliberalism: Economics reading list.

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In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. It is one of the key texts on our Philosophy reading list.

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Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. It is one of the key texts on our Art and Aesthetics reading list.

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Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism.  It is one of the key texts on our Critical Feminism reading list.

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Over one hundred and thirty years after Marx’s death, this book—combining the strengths of analytical philosophy and classical Marxism—rediscovers a central part of his heritage. See all our Key Marxist Thought here.

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In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays, Jean Baudrillard delves into a host of subjects, ranging from those of his familiar stomping ground (virtual reality, Disney, television) to topics further afield, such as children’s rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, Formula One racing, mad cow disease and genetic cloning. See all the books in our Radical Thinkers series here.

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All Over the Map is an urgent response to the radical changes in contemporary architecture and the built environment witnessed in the twenty-first century. It is a key text on our Architecture and Cities reading list.

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How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse. It is one of the key texts on our Climate Emergency reading list.

Grand Hotel Abyss
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominen...
Beyond Black and White
Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a 'post-racial' politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.In this highly acclaimed work, Manning Ma...
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
In this republication of the 1971 original, Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a ser...
Metaphilosophy
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...
The Exform

The Exform

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battl...
Women's Oppression Today
Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism...
Marx and Human Nature
In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an...
Screened Out

Screened Out

‘Watching the president’s Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens ...
All Over the Map
All Over the Map is an urgent response to the radical changes in contemporary architecture and the built environment witnessed in the twenty-first century. Characteristically polemic, incisive an...
Climate Leviathan
**Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize**Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. Th...

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