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The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse’s Philosophy of Praxis

by Andrew Feenberg

How Marcuse helps us understand the ecological crisis of the 21st century

5 posts
A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

by David Harvey

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies

8 posts
Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space

by Christian Schmid

Henri Lefebvre was the major theorist of space and of the urban. This is the definitive book on Lefebvre

2 posts
Power and Resistance: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Althusser

by Yoshiyuki Sato

A provocative reinterpretation of “(post-)structuralist” theory of power, depending on and criticising psychoanalytic theory

4 posts

Self-Defense

by Elsa Dorlin

A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher

5 posts
A Social History of Western Political Thought

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought

1 post
The Poverty of Ethics

by Anat Matar

Why the left should reclaim ethics and morality for itself
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat

by Steven Lukes

A whirlwind tour through the utopias of modernity

The Benjamin Files

by Fredric Jameson

Jameson’s first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin’s work

8 posts
The Adventure of French Philosophy

by Alain Badiou

Over forty years of French philosophy through the eyes of its greatest living exponent

26 posts
Modern Times

by Jacques Rancière

The critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist

5 posts
Philosophy of Care

by Boris Groys

The leading thinker retraces the philosophical discussions around care

3 posts

The Walker

by Matthew Beaumont

From Dickensian London to today’s megacities—what urban walking tells us about modern life

2 posts
An Event, Perhaps

by Peter Salmon

Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida

9 posts
The Destruction of Reason

by Georg Lukács

How Western philosophy lost its innocence: from Enlightenment to fascism

3 posts
One-Way Street

by Walter Benjamin

Classic collection of Walter Benjamin’s celebrated essays

12 posts

The Last Man Takes LSD

by Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora

Foucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politics

6 posts
Disobey!

by Frédéric Gros

Following his best-selling A Philosophy of Walking Gros explores the philosophy of disobedience

8 posts
The Emancipated Spectator

by Jacques Rancière

The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking

23 posts
The Intellectual and His People

by Jacques Rancière

Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual

22 posts

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