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Despite predictions of the “death of the past” and the “end of history,” the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first centur...

A major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet videoThe wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the M...

Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism? For the left and the right, major multin...

In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which h...

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...

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 classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arn...

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...

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

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...