Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twent
In The Last Resistance,Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transformour political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literaturein the Zionist imagination: here, li
Despite the recent surge of interest in the notion of a "post-racial America," the pursuit of racial equality and social justice for African-Americans seems more elusive than ever. In this new paperb
The age of the male breadwinner and the femalecaregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This major new work intervenes in today's debates on domestic inequality, examin
"At last, someone is putting concrete analysis on `counter-hegemonic globalization from the bottom up.' Boaventura de Sousa Santos has assembled social scientists from Latin America, Africa, and Asia
Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger's ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of soci
A surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting in Europe and North America. Drawing on extensi
A surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting in Europe and North America. Drawing on extensi
Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelistIt was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions
Kant, sober Enlightenment thinker and philosopher's philosopher, seems the very antithesis of Lacan, the "wild theorist" of psychoanalysis. But, drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to d
Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expandi
An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principlesIn 2009 Slavoj iek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relev
Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis attempts to answer the question: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?
Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano studentmovement who also played a key role in the creation of
In this new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he i
