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Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, origin...

If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the auth...

With race and policing once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience...

A new satirical extravaganza from one of Britain’s best-loved political cartoonistsSteve Bell’s If… cartoon strip in the Guardian attracted generat...

“An impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing . . . indictment of Israel’s treatment of the Arabs since 1948” through a survey of popul...

The first overview of the unique encounter between artists and the prominent Marxist current Workerism, also known as OperaismoDuring the 1960s and...

The first overview of the unique encounter between artists and the prominent Marxist current Workerism, also known as OperaismoDuring the 1960s and...

This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of M...

This “sparkling” and world-famous work examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations—revealing the surprising origins a...

In the age of decentralization, instant communications, and the subordination of locality to the demands of a globalizing market, contemporary citi...

This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its ...

Examines the history and functioning of Russia's post-Soviet political system–an “imitation democracy”After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russi...

The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led....

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...

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are valu...

The war on Iraq didn’t begin with the lethal pyrotechnics of Shock and Awe, and it didn’t end with George W. Bush’s made-for-TV aircraft landing. U...

The war on Iraq didn’t begin with the lethal pyrotechnics of Shock and Awe, and it didn’t end with George W. Bush’s made-for-TV aircraft landing. U...

Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020Highly commended for PEN Hessell–Tiltman Prize 2020 A ...

Ever since the First World War, socialists have considered imperialism a calamity: responsible for militarism, economic stagnation, and assaults on...

Lenin’s texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movementFired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation ...

An investigation into what makes the consistency of political groupingsWhat should we do with the ideals of internationalism, the withering away of...

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

From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience ...

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terr...