Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of
A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and DerridaJudaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime ‘o
The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western
Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisHalf a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in cris
The stories behind the inequality crisisForty years ago, the richest 1 percent controlled 25 percent of America’s wealth. Today it’s 40 percent, and the richest one-tenth of 1 percent have as much wea
What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of ref
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz KafkaTowards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose w
In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here,
The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysisThe traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus comple
The genealogy of today’s disruptive protest movementsFrom environmentalists chaining themselves to logging equipment to global justice activists blockading the World Trade Organization summit to polic
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 t
The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombingEver since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this i
The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within
In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a
The artists and writers who left when the Nazis came to power were “the best of Germany.” Palmier weaves their diverse stories into a history of magisterial scope.In 1933 thousands of inte
Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformityIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dress
Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disasterAward-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea
Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”? In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a “mak
A brilliant family saga stretching from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet UnionFor some East Germans, the fall of communism was like the end of a long and painful love affair: free
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinkerMarshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first c
What lessons can we learn from the defeat of the seventeenth century English revolution?The failure of the English Revolution in 1660 provoked a variety of responses among radical clergy, intellectual
The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In
"Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is nei
What happens when the rich are allowed to hide their money in tax havens, and what we should do about it?The revelations from the Panama Papers show unknown levels of secret money: how the superrich h
A comprehensive introduction to the faith and politics of IslamToday, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and usefu
In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of t
Award winning journalist chronicles the major conflict of our timesThis is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creat
The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth centuryIn a feat of extraordinary archival research Sheila Rowbotham uncovers six little-known women and men whose lives we
From the penthouse to the sewers—the political geography of the vertical cityVertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationIn 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the ‘fundamental incompatibility’ between his thou
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationIn 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the ‘fundamental incompatibility’ between his thou
Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of the twenty-five “Books to Remember 2000” by the New York Public Library.In this timely antidote to the
Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in t
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 radically uneq
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between
Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a ‘post-racial’ politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.In this expanded new edition of a highly acc
Essential reading for students of African-American historyThe distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 8
Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano’s 2006 expose of Naples’s Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding.
A new philosophy of religion for a secular worldHow can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organise a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terrorIn twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democr
