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Anthropology & Sociology

What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

by Göran Therborn

The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.

7 posts
The Gospels

In this new presentation of the Gospels, renowned thinker Terry Eagleton asks: was Jesus a revolutionary?

1 post
The Wages of Whiteness

by David R. Roediger

An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States.

21 posts
The Record of the Paper

by Richard Falk and Howard Friel

A scathing examination of the editorial practices of the New York Times.

4 posts

Infancy and History

by Giorgio Agamben
A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.
7 posts
Inequalities of the World

Edited by Göran Therborn
A groundbreaking exploration of global inequality.
Moving Mountains

by Anne-Christine D'Adesky

Fully updated analysis of the global fight to treat HIV and AIDS.
The Metastases of Enjoyment

by Slavoj Žižek
The status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
1 post

The Politics of Friendship

by Jacques Derrida

Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences.

1 post
Portents of the Real

by Susan Willis
The deeper meanings of popular cultural phenomena in post-9/11 America.
2 posts
Social Theory

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
2 posts
SCUM Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas
Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.
12 posts

God

by Régis Debray
Traces the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival, with an eye on the machinery of its production.
2 posts
Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

by Michael Denning
Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture.
2 posts
Infinite Tropics

by Alfred Russel Wallace

This collection comprises Wallace’s best writing on science, nature and society.

2 posts
Rumba on the River

by Gary Stewart
Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
3 posts

The Pig and the Skyscraper

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post
Where Vultures Feast

by Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta

A devastating case against the world’s largest oil company.

4 posts
Crime in Literature

by Vincenzo Ruggiero
Addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works.
Privatising Culture

by Chin-tao Wu
Mapping for the first time the increasingly hegemonic position that corporations and corporate elites have come to occupy in the cultural arena.
1 post