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In this highly original and provocative work, Dominick Jenkins provides a meticulously researched history of US weapons policy from the First World...

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. In these brand-new editions of ...

A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTYProbing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic ...

The Follies of Globalisation Theory is an erudite and lively critique arguing that current fashionable preoccupations, such as the concern with spa...

Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic flaw in the modern syste...

“The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel ...

“The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel ...

A clear and compact guide to Marx’s road to Das Kapital Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx’s economic ideas from the Economic and Philoso...

The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpe...

The author should not disappear into her own work, says Christa Wolf, but should stand up and be counted. In this series of interviews and conversa...

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...

In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate...

Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip. Challenging virtually every ac...

Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2’s icon...

An English culinary odyssey revealing the hidden forces shaping the nation’s food, its dining habits—and its peopleWhat is English food? The award-...

This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which political, ethic...

For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is t...

For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is t...

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years’ research and writing, const...

A fresh, accessible history of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary – telling a story of working-class community then and now.The Future in Our...

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be ma...

How feminism is used to attack immigration in EuropeIn recent years, opponents of 'political correctness' have surged to prominence from both left ...

How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading re...