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The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political t...

Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike “the enemy within.” In this classic account, Seumas Milne reveals the astonishin...

Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca’s patrons and convincingly explains the contempo...

Gender and sexuality have long held an important place in western attitudes towards the people and regions of the world—from the titillating accoun...

A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationBetween 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected...

A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationBetween 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected...

Slavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public...

The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn’t he stand for the big catastrop...

In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal id...

One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the ‘sacred’ in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religi...

Modern audiovisual media have spawned a ‘plague of fantasies’, electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a tru...

Slavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public...

What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marke...

Against the centre groundSince 1989, politics has been a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wideranging ...

Britain’s leading radical delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK.What is the point of elections? The re...

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behavio...

The return to religion has arguably become the dominant theme of contemporary culture. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a ne...

How Wall Street concocted a more volatile and dangerous capitalismThe Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of A...

The return of British socialism: Where does it comes from? Why now? And where is it going?The remarkable advance of "Corbynism" did not emerge from...

The brief rise and precipitous fall of “Islamic liberalism”Just a few short years ago, the “Turkish Model” was being hailed across the world. The N...

The brief rise and precipitous fall of “Islamic liberalism”Just a few short years ago, the “Turkish Model” was being hailed across the world. The N...

In the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration, The Feminist and the Sex Offender makes a powerful feminist case for accountability without punishment...

The thrilling history of Parliament's 'fiery spirits,' whose actions lead to the trial and execution of the king and the declaration of an English ...