In 2012, Jonathan Littell went to the heart of the Syrian conflict, embedding himself with the Free Syria Army in the historic city of Homs. He watched from the front line as the city was ruthlessly p
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
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
This account of the overthrow of colonial slavery in the Age ofRevolution has become a classic interpretation of crucial episodes inthe making of the modern world.
`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
Since the shootings at Columbine High School a decade ago, hysteria hasdistorted the media’s coverage of school violence. This climate of fear hascreated ripe conditions for the imposition of u
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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.
