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• Author(s): Simon Critchley • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionIn Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethi...

• Author(s): Francis Mulhern • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsAn essential collection of literary criticism from Francis Mulhern, author of The Moment of 'Scrutiny' and Culture/Metaculture Int...

• Author(s): Louis Althusser | Gregory Elliott | Gregory Elliott • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe publication in 1965 of "For Marx and Reading Capital "established Louis Althusser as one of ...

• Author(s): Pierre Macherey | Warren Montag | Ted Stolze • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe first of a series of philosophical writings disclosing the full range of Pierre Macherey's interven...

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

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Sanjay Subrahmanyam • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysA collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort o...

• Author(s): Peter Hallward • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysConcept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radical collecti...

• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalBaudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter--not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Books & ReadingThese essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is ...

• Author(s): Walter Benjamin • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: European - GeneralA collection of essays of political philosophy by the renowned mid 20th-century critical theorist and literary critic The relationship between p...

• Author(s): Gillian Rose • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EasternA reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophica...

• Author(s): Wolfgang Streeck • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Political EconomyOne of the "Best Books of the Year" Guardian - Financial Times - Times Higher Education A major collection of ...

• Author(s): Adam Shatz • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalWhat does it mean to be a politically committed writer? Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, ...

• Author(s): Isaac Deutscher • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Judaism - GeneralEssays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage...

• Author(s): Georg Lukacs • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysTactics and Ethics collects Georg Lukács's articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of e...

• Author(s): Erik Olin Wright • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe book opens with a fascinating autobiographical essay exploring the challenges and benefits of being a Marxist scholar in the presen...

• Author(s): Fredric Jameson • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernFredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capita...

• Author(s): David R. Roediger • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralTowards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger's recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in ...

• Author(s): Walter Benjamin • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Movements - Critical TheoryWalter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essay...

• Author(s): Raphael Samuel • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - Victorian Era (1837-1901)A new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century 'ONE OF THE MOST ...

• Author(s): Vivian Gornick • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryOne of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's e...

• Author(s): Peter Wollen • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Movements - ModernismThe films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexic...

• Author(s): Natasha Lennard • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysAn urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numerous shatters the mai...

• Author(s): Roberto Schwarz • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysHow can Latin Americans understand their past? Do ideologies which have been imported from Europe necessarily distort their view, or is that to underrate th...

• Author(s): Benjamin Kohlmann • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysA literary history spanning borders and centuries to explore radicalization as portrayed in fiction Tracing the evolution of socialist world literature fr...

• Author(s): John Berger • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Art & PoliticsWhy should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist's intentions, but also its times: theref...

• Author(s): William Morris • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysThe definitive collection of political writings from William Morris William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thin...

• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThe renowned postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture aft...

• Author(s): Bruno Bosteels • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalThis book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered a...

• Author(s): Walter Rodney • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Theory - General"Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of ...

• Author(s): Alain Badiou • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalPolemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of e...

• Author(s): Mao Tse-Tung • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: World - AsianA collection of the writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution--presented by "one of the world's best-known public intellectuals" (New York Review...

• Author(s): Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: DiscriminationThe first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration Gathering togeth...

• Author(s): Peter Osborne • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Art & PoliticsHow does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of form Criticism of contemporary art is split by an...

• Author(s): Louisa Yousfi • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Race & Ethnic RelationsA provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North Afric...