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Race Nation Class: Ambiguous Identities
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A key dialogue on identity and nationalism by major critics of capitalism. Buy or find out more→
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
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“One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written.”—David Harvey Written by one of America’s foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to... Buy or find out more→
The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde
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Elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition. If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues... Buy or find out more→
Passwords
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The quintessential thinker of postmodernism simplifies his key concepts for the lay person. Buy or find out more→
The Panopticon Writings: (Wo Es War)
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A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power. The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end,... Buy or find out more→
Machiavelli and Us
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“Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri. “We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes... Buy or find out more→
The Freudian Slip: Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism
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In an iconoclastic work of great verve—with an introductory essay by Perry Anderson—Sebastiano Timpanaro submits the whole field of psychoanalysis to one of its most sustained and serious Marxist critiques. Using textual... Buy or find out more→
Design And Crime And Other Diatribes
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Art critic with influential critique of art and architecture. Buy or find out more→
Critique of Economic Reason
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André Gorz's earlier books—from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades.... Buy or find out more→
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
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The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis. What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions... Buy or find out more→
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideas generated by... Buy or find out more→
Ethics-politics-subjectivity: Levinas and Contemporary French Thought
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In Ethics – Politics – Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any,... Buy or find out more→
In Search of Wagner
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Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno... Buy or find out more→
Brecht and Method
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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 century is unforgettably... Buy or find out more→
Reading Capital
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A landmark of French thought, Reading Capital is no less than an attempt to topple the edifice of Western Marxism and rebuild it from the original foundations. Establishing a rigorous programme of “symptomatic reading” that... Buy or find out more→
The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena
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Postmodern sociologist-prophet Jean Baudrillard examines the legacy of the 1960s, the “orgy” that, he argues, gave birth to our age of dizzying simulation, reproduction, eclecticism, and prosthesis. Explaining how sexual... Buy or find out more→
War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception
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In this seminal work, Paul Virilio conducts a sweeping analysis of perception in an age of astounding visual impact. Through a technical history of weaponry, photography, and cinematography, an account of key war strategists... Buy or find out more→
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
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Cited by Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin’s study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, “mourning play”) is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and... Buy or find out more→
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
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Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand... Buy or find out more→
Walter Benjamin: Or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
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This momentous study of Benjamin’s critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton’s thought. As the subtitle suggests, its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin’s approach to language, history, and art but to chart a... Buy or find out more→
The Democratic Paradox
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Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers a fresh understanding of democracy which acknowledges the inescapable and essential antagonism in its workings by one of the... Buy or find out more→
Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought
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Out of the chaos following Lenin’s death and the mounting fury against Lukács and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as “the only theoretical equal to Marx.” Lukács... Buy or find out more→
Panegyric
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Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It features an autobiography by the founding figure of the Situationist International. Buy or find out more→
Hegel Contra Sociology
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Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century’s most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative thought. Demonstrating how,... Buy or find out more→