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The interpretation of Hegel has been a focal point of philosophical controversy ever since the beginning of the twentieth century, both among Marxi...

A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance a...

Isaac Deutscher is widely recognized as one of the foremost political biographers of the twentieth century, and his full-scale studies of Trotsky a...

Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time, with an afterword by Martin JayMarxist Mo...

Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Masque of Anarchy,” from its conception in Italy and suppression in Eng...

Despite the passing of some forty years since the original publication of Jurgen Habermas’s The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the...

NATO’s war on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 was unleashed in the name of democracy and human rights. This view was challenged by the world’s thr...

Receptive to influences of such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser, materialist Shakespeare c...

Anniversary edition of the classic political manifestoUrgently relevant to current arguments about the crisis of austerity, the 1968 manifesto set ...

In this volume Régis Debray sums up over a decade of his research and writing on the evolution of subjects of communication and the technologically...

How to Design the World: Working Without SolutionsIn Medium Design everyone is a designer. But design, in this case, inverts the typical focus on o...

The highly acclaimed video artist and author of Duty Free Art asks: What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial tec...

Meltdown is the gripping account of the financial collapse that destroyed the West’s investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and...

Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London’s merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of lo...

Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden’s own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the “war on terror.” Ov...

Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thoughtIn Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolut...

Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thoughtIn Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolut...

The reception of Michel Foucault’s work has often been divided between two unsatisfactory alternatives. On the one had there are those who admire t...

Short essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and cultureMicroverses comprises over a hundred shor...

Remarkable reinterpretation of Milton and his poetry by one of the most famous historians of the 17th CenturyIn this remarkable book Christopher Hi...

The politics of literature in the construction of worldsThe Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the re...

Ground-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated for the first timeValery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of h...

"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." —Susan SontagA reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consu...