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
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
First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration f
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
"An Extraordinary book ... it offers to turn upside-down our most dearly held understandings about how American culture has evolved." Van Gosse, American Quarterly"As fresh a synthesis of the distinct
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
Responding to Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', the leading political philosophers of the Left convened in London in 2009 to take part in a landmark conference to discuss the perpetual, persiste
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
After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural criticFredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vitalstrain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the
Ten years after the publication of The Business of Books, his groundbreakingcritique of conglomeration in the book industry, Andr? Schiffrin turns hisattention to the broader crisis in the media. Jus
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
'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
In America, France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways toproduce a collection of traveler’s tales from the land of hyperreality. From the sierras ofNew Mexico to t
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
Ronald Fraser is an internationally renowned chronicler of other people's experience. In Search of a Past is his remarkable account of his own origins. Born in Hamburg in 1930, he settled in the Home
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
In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European
New edition of Yvonne Kapp's much-celebrated biographyEleanor was the youngest of three surviving Marx children. She was the only one to be born, live, love, work and die in England and to become a pu
From the Armenian communities of Venice Beach and Paris, to Turkey and Armenia, Deep Mountain is a nuanced and moving exploration of the living history and continuing denial of the Armenian genocide.
Recounts the journey of a U.S. tank battalion's prisoner detention duties, showing how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill-trained for their new responsibilities, descended into the degradations of abus
The dominant accounts of the current financial crisis--focussing on the lack of regulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation--have not offered us much beyond the kind of informati
The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a "city-symphony" to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities tra
Chris Harvie shows how Gordon Brown came to preside over a bankrupt country on the brink of economic and political breakdown. Taking us on a tour of Britain over the last decade, he explores the ever
In this major new reading of Sartre's life and work, Paige Arthur traces the relationship between the philosopher's decades-long commitment to decolonization and his intellectual positions. Where oth
