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What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexande...

Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques DerridaWho is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativ...

Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques DerridaWho is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativ...

A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd was a man deeply entrenched in both th...

Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one of th...

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they a...

In the 1980s, leading philosophers at Oxford, Chicago and UCLA undertook a controversial reassessment of Marxism using the techniques of analytical...

Foot and Mouth and Mad Cow Disease are but two of the results of treating animals as commodities, subject only to commercial constraints and ignori...

“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of CasteT...

Through his work as a fiction writer, critic and activist, Fred Pfeil has sought to extend the progressive possibilities within contemporary Americ...

Participants in the worldwide citizens’ movement for social change and global justice like to proclaim that ‘Another World Is Possible.’ But is it?...

Antagonistics addresses central political and theoretical questions: how should we conceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliber...

Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be— the l...

In the centuries following the Reformation, Antichrist—the biblical Beast, whose coming was to precede the end of the world and the coming of Chris...

Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini’s p...

Mexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this complete...

A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of TimeContemporary art is the object of inflated and widely dive...

In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concep...

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that fo...

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that fo...

John Baker grew up in New York but has lived mainly in Britain and Ireland since 1968. He teaches moral and political philosophy in the Department ...

The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Ed...