Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? This work takes on the reigning ideology with a plea...
The media's portrayal of state violence has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation...
Jean Baudrillard og Philippe Petit
To many, Baudrillard's writings are too abstract to comprehend and analyze; to some, they resemble poetry more than...
The leading continental philosopher takes on the standard bearer of analytical philosophy. Alain Badiou takes on...
In this accessible work, France’s leading radical thinker takes his readers on an incisive journey through twentieth-century philosophy. On the...
In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have...
Ursula Marx (red.), Gudrun Schwarz (red.), Michael Schwarz (red.)
The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life,...
In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis - following on from his bestselling "Welcome to the Desert...
Explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives - whether through...
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In...
Georges Bataille was one of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time. These essays, the result of...
Letters from the heroic German revolutionary to her comrades, friends and lovers. This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa...
“Very few men”, said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S....
In his latest book, Jean Baudrillard contemplates Western culture “after the orgy” — the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the...
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the...
A lyrical and thought-provoking record of the last year in the life of the Nobel Prize–winning novelist. Thought-provoking and lyrical, The...
“Shopping malls, motorways, airport lounges — we are all familiar with these curious spaces which are both everywhere and nowhere. But...
Alain Badiou, in this sharp and focused intervention, claims that, in and of itself, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President is not an event,...
In this eloquent new book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance...
Infinitely Demanding is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and...
Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the...
The idea that we should “do something” to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human...
Slavoj Zizek's work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture,...
"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation."--"The New Yorker"...
"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation."--"The New Yorker"...
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves...
The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period....
Karl Marx’s analysis of the Paris Commune of 1871, when the citizens of Paris rose up against their government...
Robespierre’s defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for...
Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Written in...
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of...
The Reformation was originally an attack on a corrupt Church, sparked by Martin Luther. Thomas Müntzer, originally...
Joshua Cohen (red.) og Joel Rogers (red.)
As the tasks of the state become more complex and the size of polities larger, the institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the...
John E. Roemer og Erik Olin Wright (red.)
How is it possible to translate egalitarian ideals into practical policy? in this second volume of the Real Utopias Project, John Roemer proposes the...
Samuel Bowles og Herbert Gintis
In Recasting Egailtarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malaise of the...
Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott, Phillipe Van Parijs
Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and...
The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This major new work intervenes...
The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasures. But does it still exist, and if so, can it be found? In search of...
A major work of modern history and political analysis, The New-Old World punctures both domestic and American myths about continental Europe....
Archon Fung (red.) og Erik Olin Wright (red.)
The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the...
