Nicos Poulantzas was one of the leading Marxist theorists of the twentiethcentury, developing seminal analyses of the state and social classes during thecrisis of monopoly capitalism. This volume bri
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 bleak tr
With the publication of Specters of Marxin 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confrontMarx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravurapresentation provided a p
In an age of military neoliberalism, social movements and center-Left coalitiongovernments have advanced across South America, sparking hope forradical change in a period otherwise characterized by r
Spontaneous,abrupt and wickedly humorous, Dan Perjovschi is fast becoming one ofthe world's most influential cartoonists. He presents here a skepticalcommentary on contemporary global conflicts and d
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.
In History and Revolution,a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionisttrends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twentyyears. Ranging from an explorat
The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic. It looks at the theor
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
In an ageof globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of theFirst World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the conceptof utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Futu
The Case for Chechnyasharply criticizes the role of Western nations in their struggle, andlays bare the weakness--and shamefulness--of the arguments used to denythe Chechens' right to sovereignty.
Widely praised as an exciting, insightful exposition and development of Marx's critique of political economy, Harvey updates his classic text with a discussion of the turmoil in world markets today.
A writer and art critic, Stallabrass lectures at London's Courtauld Institute of Art. Originally published in 1999, his text offers an assessment of "young British art" (YBA)--also referred to by the
Prominent musicians, playwrights, scientists and writers look at howpublic opinion is wilfully ignored, and "democracy" used as a figleaffor US imperial ambitions in the Middle East.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troublin
In these pages Jacqueline Rose explores the encounter between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory. She argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts throug
In these pages Jacqueline Rose explores the encounter between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory. She argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts throug
In 1945, US intelligence officers in manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover
In this new edition of his sixties' memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that moves between London, Paris and Berlin, as well as Vietnam and Bolivia, encou
Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present - its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute re
Years of drought have given the United States a terrible thirst and turned water into blue gold. A powerful agrichemical magnate and corporate visionary, William Greele, puts a consortium together to
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
At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectua
“You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Universal Exhibition ... The city center unfolds
This book provides an original analysis of the key processes of commodification of public services, the conversion of public-service workforces into employees motivated to generate profit, and the ro
Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so
A riveting inquiry into black history and American racism published here for the first time, Race and Revolution is a work of radiant insight and bold logic. Astonishingly advanced for its time, the d
The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland,
