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The theorist of radical liberation analyzes what it is that causes oppression."Verso's beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors whose writings are in...

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Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from history. O...

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The famous postmodernist thinker turns detective to investigate the murder of reality."Verso's beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors whose writing...

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The first collection by the leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine. Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestini...

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A groundbreaking analysis of the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics. ....

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The father of psychoanalytic philosophy's invaluable introduction to his own thought, available in English for the first time. Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, My Teaching is a clear, conc...

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A new edition of the definitive book on nationalism—over a quarter of a million copies sold worldwide.Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a millio...

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The origins of nationalism and anti-globalization are traced by the bestselling author of Imagined Communities.

In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a compelling exploration of late-nineteenth-century politics and culture against a background of milita...


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Disturbing and vivid meditations on the meanings of objects and sensations, from postmodernity's quintessential theorist. This third book in the Cool Memories series is culled from Baudrillard's notebooks in the period when he was composing The Illusion of the End...

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A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece....

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An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in ...

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What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek engage in a dialogue on central questions of contem...

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Groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.

Hollow Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation.

In this journey from the d...


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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day....

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First ever biography of one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of late capitalism. Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and an economist, he was a brilliant orator in several languag...

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The renowned postmodernist philosopher’s tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary ‘orgy’ of the 1960s. “The most important and original French thinker of the past twenty years.” --J.G. Ballard ...

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Reflections on the causes and consequences of the Israel-Palestine conflict, by the author of The Iron Wall. “The only way to make sense of Israel’s senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 invo...

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The first English translation of the statements of the leader of Lebanon’s “Party of God,” in a comprehensive edition.

In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the “...


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Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture,...

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“Surely this must be counted among the greatest biographies in the English language.” --Graham Greene “Trotsky’s epic defense of the soul of the Revolution against its bureaucratic executioners was a torchlight in the storm. In one of the very greatest modern biographies, Isaac Deutscher ...

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Historically, leftwing accounts of injustice focussed primarily on economic harms, such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Recently, however, with the collapse of Communism and the rise of identity politics, attention has turned toward cultural harms, such as cultural imperialism, 'misrecogni...

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A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy.

The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disa...


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In From A to X: A Story in Letters, internationally-acclaimed author John Berger conjures an epistolary romance between an insurgent named Xavier and his beloved A’ida. With every letter, a larger sense of their world emerges: Xavier’s revolutionary activities, for which he was imprison...

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A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism."Verso's beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thoug...

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Major theorists discuss Derrida's most political work and Derrida responds.Fredric Jameson, Antonio Negri, Terry Eagleton, Pierre Macherey and others engage in a debate on Marx with Jacques Derrida With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstandin...

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Revolutions: Classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today's radical writers. This essential new series features classic texts by key figures who took center-stage during a period of insurrection. Each book is introduced by a major contemporary radical writer who shows how these incendiary w...

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A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age.In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the...

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The father of psychoanalytic philosophy's invaluable introduction to his own thought, available in English for the first time. Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, My Teaching is a clear, conc...

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From Israel's most celebrated musician and outspoken critic, an examination of the power of music to transform society. In this eloquent new book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in our ev...

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A trenchant and witty dissection of the French political scene by the leading radical philosopher. Alain Badiou, in this sharp and focused intervention, claims that, in and of itself, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President is not an event, nor is it the cause for wringing ...

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Georges Bataille was one of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time. These essays, the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War II, comprise his most incisive study of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching conse...

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World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those he has already estab...

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In January 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar when he signed an exclusive contract with the Mutual Film Corporation. In return for $25,000, he agreed to keep other film companies from his battlefield, to fight in daylight whenever possible, and to reconstruct battles if th...

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Cahiers du cinéma, the French film journal founded in 1951, had a cataclysmic influence on film-making and writing. The story of its genesis and subsequent life-cycle resonates with critics, practitioners and the film-going public, but a substantial history of the journal, a succinct accou...

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A leading Israeli historian shatters the national myth of the Jewish exodus from the promised land. A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of b...

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In this expanded paperback edition of Hitchen's slow motion citizen's cardiac arrest of the Clinton presidency, our protagonist looks at Clinton's baleful influence on the 2000 election, Hillary Clinton's run for a New York Senate seat, and how the net of corruption in Democratic fundraising is cast...

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An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor. How Race Survived US History explores how the idea of race was created and recreated in American history. From the late seventeenth century — the era in which Du Bo...

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Archaeologies of the Future is the third volume, after Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity, of Jameson’s project on the Poetics of Social Forms. In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the socia...

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Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Particularly deft at evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on all sides by intolerant Christendom. "...

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A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums. According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radica...

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Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture,...

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Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture,...

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A revealing look at the power of speaking out, Writing in an Age of Silence describes Paretski's coming of age in a time of great possibility, during the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and the women's movement. Bestselling crime-writer Sarah Paretsky has won critical acclaim for...

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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideas generated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attack on commodity f...

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History of the car bomb traces the political development of this influential weapon of terror and resistance

In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies—p...


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An accessible introduction to the key writings on postmodernism by the influential Marxist critic. “One of the leading cultural intelligences of our time.” --Perry Anderson ...

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The urgent political writing of the major twentieth century sociologist.Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a combat sport." This comprehensive collection of his writings on politics a...

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One of the leading historians of the contemporary labor movement uncovers the secrets of its collapse and revival in this follow-up to the acclaimed Workers in a Lean World.

US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America ...


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Unique investigation of the impact of the Great War on the lives of the soldiers who survived.Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is about the countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casualties—not of shrapnel and gas, but of the b...

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A rich and suggestive analysis of military “ways of seeing,” revealing the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema. “One of the most original thinkers of our time.” --Libération ...

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An audacious autobiography by the founding and pivotal figure of the Situationist International. “A philosopher whose scathing pen has never been so sharp.” --San Francisco Chronicle ...

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Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in contemporary philosophy and cultural criticism. Whether embraced or reviled for his reflections on 'hyperreality', he never fails to evoke strong reactions. Yet, all too often, discussion of Baudrillard's ideas takes place ...

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A fully updated edition of Mike Davis's visionary work.No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely ele...

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A vehement defense of the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression.

Jacques Ranciere was a student of Althusser before he famously turned against his mentor; now, he's regarded as one of the major thinkers of our age. In his new book, he examines how the West ca...


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A rich and groundbreaking study of conceptual art, from Duchamp to Warhol, and its relationship to capitalism.

In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion ...


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One of Israel's most independent writers demystifies the "peace camp" liberals. Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel's most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects the c...

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A first-hand account of the failure of humanitarian intervention, from Somalia to Iraq.The idea that we should "do something" to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights. Yet from Kosovo to Iraq, military interventions have gone disa...

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An essential introduction to the field of historical geography, which offers a radical new way of understanding global capitalism.Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in...

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Renowned satirist with a mordant dissection of the Democrats' record on war.Americans see the Democratic Party as the anti-war party: vacillating flip-floppers in the eyes of conservatives; or, in the liberal view, restrained, measured wagers of war as "last resort." In November 2006, voters ...

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Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture,...

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From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown—but underlying both is the irrationality of global capitalism. In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis—following on from his bestselling Welcome to the Desert of the Real—Slavoj Zizek argue...

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A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today. Antagonistics addresses core political and theoretical questions: How should we conceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitali...

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An enchanting story of the search for an ancient artifact. The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasures. But does it still exist, and if so, can it be found? In search of answers to these questions, an assortment of archaeologists heads for a rem...

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The leading literary theorist dissected in interview. Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist deeply hostile to the zeitgeist. ...

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A modern edition on the 150th anniversary of the Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto, drafted on the eve of the 1848 revolutions, is the most brilliant and incisive political text ever written; a work of great literary power as well as historical insight. Eric Hobsbawm, whose writing has brilliantly ...

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Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music's challenge to Western cultural imperialism.Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban Latin and salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview...

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These provocative essays explore the links between literature, history and politics, through an examination of the work of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Proust, Musil, Roth, Platonov, Soltzhenitsyn, Grossman, Munif, Rushdie and others. Tariq Ali draws out common themes as well as polarities, and in each case ...

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The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future....

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Published to commemorate the bicentennial of Thomas Paine’s death, these texts have remained two of the most influential arguments for liberty in political thought. Common Sense is a pamphlet that Paine wrote in support of American independence. Due to its original and simple style it spr...

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A defense of the political possibilities of deconstruction, unlocking the ethical potential of Derrida’s work. “The most powerful and provocative philosopher now writing about… ethical subjectivity and reinvigorated democracy.” --Cornel West ...

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An examination of authenticity as a revolutionary concept. In this acclaimed exploration of the search for “authentic” individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Pari...

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A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? Confronting the major debates in the world today —about national alternatives and alternative globalizations—Unger shows that there are a set of changes that we can begin to develop with ...

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The glittering spectacle of Times Square has been the object of the world’s fascination since the turn of the century. Now available in a handsome new paperback edition, noted critic Marshall Berman’s On the Town captures the incandescence of the “crossroads of the world.” By interw...

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Venezuela under Hugo Chávez could be a model for peaceful revolution—or it could all be undone by the specters of the past. Since coming to power in 1998, the Chavez government has inspired both fierce internal debate and horror amongst Western...

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Howard Friel and Richard Falk analyze the New York Times coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict from September 29, 2000 to December 2006, and show that the Times disproportionately reported Palestinian violence, even while the Israelis killed four times the number of Palestinians in the p...

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Speeches by Fidel Castro in response to the US administration's attempt to isolate Cuba. Renowned radical writer Tariq Ali analyzes the relevance of Castro's message as the Bolivian revolution reignites behind Chavez.

In response to the American administration’s attempt...


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Meltdown tells the story of America’s recent economic collapse, which precipitated a major recession comparable to the 1930s, sent shocks throughout the global financial system and also brought down other national economies, including that of Iceland. Tackling a complex and often impenetr...

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Following up on his acclaimed work The Future of the Image, Rancière explores the meaning of critical art and suggests how we may overcome the potential trap of being a spectator. As passive spectators, he argues, we risk consumerist oppression and an upheaval of social relations. Suggesti...

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A profound and personal journey to the heart of a shattered nation.In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. In The Occupation, Cockburn describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam's armies co...

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A definitive collection of Jameson's early essays. For the first time, this classic collection of Fredric Jameson's theoretical essays is published in one volume. Most of these pieces were composed under a particular set of constraints—the need to explain the Marxist intell...

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In this pint-sized collection of essays, Alain Badiou takes the reader through a keen yet poignant journey through the pantheon of late twentieth-century philosophy. Through the course of the collection – each essay homage to a figure that helped to shape his own way of thinking – Badiou reveals...

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Set in medieval Palermo, this is the fourth novel in Tariq Ali's celebrated Islam Quintet.

The fourth novel in Tariq Ali's 'Islam Quintet' charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn between his close friendship with the sultan and his ...


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The definitive collection of the key writings of one of the most influential political theorists of the postwar epoch.Nicos Poulantzas was one of the leading Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, developing seminal analyses of the state and social classes during the crisis of monopoly c...

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This essential series features classic texts by key figures who took center-stage during a period of insurrection. Each book is introduced by a major contemporary radical writer who shows how these incendiary words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions......

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A classic philosophical study on how political and cultural ideas come to dominate. “Althusser traversed so many lives—so many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant a...

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Tariq Ali's latest novel is a rich and teeming chronicle set in twelfth-century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem. "The Book of Saladin" is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his w...

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Acclaimed, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for universal values by “the most dangerous philosopher in the West.” Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Zizek ta...

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The radical sociologist analyzes the practices of the elite."Verso's beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors whose writings are included in the seri...

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Major new biography of the pioneering advocate of free love, gay rights and women's suffrage.Challenging both capitalism and the values of Western civilization, the gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth...

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A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film.

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically in...


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The first-ever insider’s exposé of the African National Congress, After the Party details the inner workings of the party that has ruled South Africa since 1994. As the ANC heads toward the 2009 national elections, Andrew Feinstein, a respected media commentator and former ANC member, re...

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Reminiscent of Gulliver’s Travels and Sophie’s World in turn, this delightful satirical comedy is a whirlwind tour through the utopias of our modernity. Along the way, Lukes both pays homage to and reveals the tragic failure of each utopia in achieving the perfect world. Ni...

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An enchanting story of the search for an ancient artifact. ....

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"Recognition" has become a keyword of our time, but its relation to economic "redistribution" remains unclear. This volume stages a debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other German, who hold different views of the relation of redistribution to recognition. Axel Honneth conceives...

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Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the Bible. In recent years religious faith has come under much scrutiny from secular progressives. Fear of a rise in Islamic and Christian fundamentalism has prompted numerous attacks on the belief in God which make no attempt to ...

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The untold story of the West-Eastern Divan, an orchestra reaching across the Israeli-Arab divide. Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one of the most acclaimed youth orchestras in ...

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The only comprehensive "bottom up" history of the world from the earliest human society to the twenty-first century.From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the millennium, Chris Harman provid...

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