Today's Olympic Games are an enormous marketing and money machine, to say nothing of sporting and media event—a global festival of top-tier athletics swaddled in both corporate cash and popular acclai
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not di
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page beautiful homage to New York CityHere is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city,
An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined CommunitiesBenedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal bookImagined Communities has
What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it?Since its commencement in the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200
The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Mouffe's classic Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, taking it in three principal directions. First, this b
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy and anatomizes the “antiphilosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein’s thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels’s introduction argues that a continuing dialogue with Wittgenstein is inescapable for contemporary philosophy.
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta. In a definitive study of the history and social
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture? Developing h
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new eman
Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou propo
In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings—and pizz
Michael Ignatieff has been one of the more influential establishment intellectuals of the English-speaking world, and is likely to become Prime Minister of Canada. His official story is that of an am
`One of the most creative and independent-minded revolutionary Marxists of the post-war world.' Guardian`Mandel's capacity to synthesize complex global events is marvellous, resulting in a slim, reada
The very scale of the 1939–45 war has often tempted historians to study particularcampaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailedhistory of the conflict, th
In 1984, Nobel Peace Prize–winner and indigenous rights activistRigobertaMench￡ published I, RigobertaMench￡, her autobiographical account of life in Guatemala undera military dictatorship to g
In 1984, Nobel Peace Prize–winner and indigenous rights activist RigobertaMench￡ published I, RigobertaMench￡, her autobiographical account of life in Guatemala undera military dictatorship to
Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip. Challenging virtually every account of linguistic error in Freud's work as arbitra
A thought-provoking series brings together works by top left-wing intellectuals and covers everything from philosophy to politcal science to literary criticism.
Peter Osborne's The Politics of Time feeds the philosophy of history its tail, advancing a theory of temporality grounded in social relations and the totalizing formations of the present. Bridging Ri
Simultaneously a compendium, a retrospective, and a menu a la carte, Passwords captures the full range of Jean Baudrillard's rebellious social genius. Sixteen points of entry---from the object and the
The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth centur
In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of d
Formerly the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long beenone of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world—a fact made clearby the disastrous effects of th
Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravityand pestilence. But is Britain’s capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as anevening in any new pro
When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother, Maureen, told him he wasadopted. She described his natural parents as a Scandinavian sailor and a“little Irish girl” who worked in a grocery.
Rossana Rossanda is one of the most important and influential intellectuals on the European Left, and was one of its key figures in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in 1924, by 1943 she
Across the ages and in every continent, people have struggled againstthose in power and raised their voices in protest—and this unrivalledcompendium brings many of them together. From primitive
With characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a rangeof key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel-Palestineconflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the fai
Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the mostmenial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept thishumiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and J
'A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!'-Slavoj AiPek'An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.'-New Statesman'Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.'-Times Higher Edu
The Pope Is Not Gay! is an irreverent history of homophobic and sexist obscurantism in the Holy Roman Church and an endoscopic examination of its greatest contemporary advocate, Pope Benedict XVIIn h
Examines the current U.S. strategy for the war in Afghanistan and offers sobering conclusions about its parallels to the British and Soviet wars in the region and reasons why it is so unlikely to succ
Manuel CorteI?s was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the peasant reform movement and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization struggles. He also became mayor of Malaga, where he was cau
Volume 2 of Marx's political writings: The key essays and texts on politics and history--including The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon and The Class Struggles of France.
In this wide-ranging and incisive collection, Peter Gowan traces the contours of the world order that emerged after the end of the Cold War and assesses its prospects in the light of the global econo
The contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho, which is shown to be an exemplary source of postmodern defami
