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Leading art critic explores the connections between art’s past and presentContemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with histo...

Leading art critic explores the connections between art’s past and presentContemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with histo...

In this fascinating study, Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a ‘counter-intuitive’ notion of the philistine, claiming that what th...

Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar...

A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental concepts from a key intellectual—now updatedWritten by one of political theory’s leading t...

The early Marx called for the “realization of philosophy” through revolution. Revolution thus became a critical concept for Marxism, a view elabora...

The early Marx called for the "realization of philosophy" through revolution. Revolution thus becomes a critical philosophical concept for Marxism,...

“You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Un...

All of Marx’s essential political writing in one volumeKarl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism. He was also a superb journalist, po...

Using the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformationThe texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross’s attempt to think the questi...

In this acclaimed exploration of the search for “authentic” individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out ...

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review.From the COVI...

This original and lucid book examines the foreign policy of the British Labour government in the aftermath of the Second World War. It exposes Brit...

The most influential of contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores the idea of friendship—and its political consequences, past and future...

This volume sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings of the idea of human rights by bringing together a collection of ori...

The violence and destruction hiding behind the obsession with immunityOur contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity ...

In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. ...

The Pope is Not Gay! is an irreverent history of homophobic and sexist obscurantism in the Holy Roman Church and an endoscopic examination of its g...

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical...

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical...

Nicos Poulantzas was one of the leading Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, developing seminal analyses of the state and social classes dur...

Why the left should reclaim ethics and morality for itselfThe Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues t...

In this path-breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers in Bangladesh and Britain to shed ligh...