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Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to t...

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s classic investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “the money commodity” shines light on commodities a...

The experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of “irrational” violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context o...

Building on an analysis of the dissenting movements to have emerged since the rise of modern capitalism, Anti-Systemic Movements uncovers an intern...

“Marx did not reject the idea of a human nature. He was right not to do so.”That is the conclusion of this passionate and polemical new work by Nor...

Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory’s “spatial turn.” From the suppression of space in modern social scie...

In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economi...

Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip. Challenging virtually every ac...

Establishing a rigorous program of “symptomatic reading” that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Lo...

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 radi...

A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesisOr...

In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the...

A new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic work of Black history and politics, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet and novelist Honorée F...

After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the I...

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment. Kant’s magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reaso...

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two power...

Feuerbach’s departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has...

Tactics and Ethics collects Georg Lukács’s articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy co...

“We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people’s,” Louis Althusser once observed of Marx’s ...

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World....

In State, Power, Socialism, the leading theorist of the state and European communism advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories ...

Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life—the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biologica...

In the name of an assault on “totalization” and “identity,” a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism’s dialectical and u...

The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, i...