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The train derailment at Hatfield in October 2000, which cost four lives, prompted a national rethink about the state of Britain’s railways. The cra...

Shortly after the hostilities of the Iraq War were declared to have come to an end, the renowned philosopher Jurgen Habermas, with the endorsement ...

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatical...

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatical...

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Qu...

"This path-breaking book by one of the sharpest minds in contemporary philosophy will live on for a very long time."—Dany Nobus, author of Critique...

This major voice in French philosophy presents a classic study of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society. Spanning th...

“In 1968 we celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. We still have reason to hope for a concrete celebration ...

This polemical work presents to the English-speaking world one of the most original philosophical thinkers to have emerged within post-war Europe. ...

In this highly original work Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Her...

A philosophical and political exploration of the construction of popular identities In this highly original and influential work, Ernesto Laclau fo...

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of...

A collection of the writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution—presented by “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Re...

No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclus...

Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of na...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As...

In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belie...

For many illusions it is easy to find owners—people who proudly declare their belief in things such as life after death, human reason, or the self-...

Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understand...

Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understand...

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is ...

Described as ‘a continuous carnival’ and ‘the crossroads of the world,’ Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and verac...

We live in uncertain times. But what does this uncertainty actually mean to our ability to act?In an era where politicians, CEOs, and pundits refle...