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• Author(s): Francis Mulhern • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsTwo leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice In What Is Cultural Criticism?, two le...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTerry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a nove...

• Author(s): Abdirahman A. Hussein • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: HistoricalFew public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the g...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalThis wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralPlaywright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer -- Terry Eag...

• Author(s): Francesco de Cristofaro | Stefano Ercolino | Franco Moretti • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Books & ReadingExperimental Criticism offers a series of close critical engagements with one of the world's most i...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTerry Eagleton is one of the most important--and most radical--theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture...

• Author(s): Fredric Jameson • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyCultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the m...

• Author(s): Peter Dews • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book Peter Dews explores some of the most urgent problems confronting contemporary European thought: the status of the subject af...

• Author(s): Mark Neocleous • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralPutting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of or...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoliticalFrom our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.

• Author(s): Reinier De Graaf • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: CriticismA fourteen-point manifesto to bring architecture into the twenty-first century Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Movements - ExistentialismJean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy's leading intellectuals In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jea...

• Author(s): Alessandro Giammei • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryFirst collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist int...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Bennington • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverWritten by Jacques Derrida's leading English-language translator and collaborator, this invigorating and intelligent volume displays...

• Author(s): Helen Hester • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsA timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and inste...

• Author(s): George C. Comninel • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Europe - FranceHistorians generally--and Marxists in particular--have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendan...

• Author(s): Roman de la Campa • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Criticism & TheorySpanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial r...

• Author(s): John Roberts • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryIn this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde ...

• Author(s): Louis Althusser • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political

• Author(s): Franco Moretti • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: European - GeneralIn this pioneering study Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective by mapping the often unexpected relations between literature an...

• Author(s): Goran Therborn • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFew concepts have been so intensively discussed or so widely sponsored as that of "ideology." Whether read as the expression of social classes o...

• Author(s): Boris Groys • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: World - EuropeanUnravelling the mystery of Alexandre Koj�ve In this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern b...

• Author(s): Ernest Mandel • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismLeon Trotsky has become one of the twentieth century's most enduring political legends. Joining the ...

• Author(s): Nancy Fraser • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralThe collapse of communism, the rise of identity politics, and struggles over global governance have combined to create new challenges for the Left: How to do ...

• Author(s): Andreas Malm • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineMalm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare. Israel's pulverization of Gaza si...