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Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques Rancière’s work returns politics to its central place in understanding art. In The F...

In this book Elmar Altvater, one of Germany’s leading radical economists, considers the discordant state of the capitalist world today, drawing on ...

During the last hundred years, the private and public voices of Latin American poetry have offered a wealth of imaginative responses to the region‘...

An engaging chapter-by-chapter guide to the most important economics text of the twentieth centuryJohn Maynard Keynes’s General Theory of Employmen...

Few terms in the vocabulary of politics are so confused as “imperialism.” Does it refer essentially to colonial rule? Or is it primarily an economi...

“She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl,...

How everything from the price of food to energy and housing costs is fixed by remote, unregulated financial markets, and what can be done about itT...

The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust’s, opening up vistas of hitherto unima...

This volume is both a diary of a radical’s working life and a public chronicle of the recent political past. His own reflections are interspersed w...

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy enduresI...

In this new presentation of the Gospels, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful and provocative argument for Jesus Christ as a social, political and moral...

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of itThe Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, gover...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of “rugged individualism,” inde...

Most accounts of the current financial crisis tell a story of deregulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation. But few of those ...

How the car become the battleground at the centre of the climate change culture wars.Since the pandemic, there has been a growth of conspiracies th...

What comes after neoliberalism?In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to...

"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter RodneyIn his ...

A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemonyFew terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political sc...

A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemonyFew terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political sc...

Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and e...

“Deeply researched and pithily argued.” —New York Magazine “A brilliant, and sometimes eerie, dissection” of ‘the science of happiness’ and the m...

Leading design group, Metahaven, on what is art in the 21st CenturyThe Hard Question of Art questions our assumptions of what art is today and sets...