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The idea that we should ‘do something’ to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights. Yet...

A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the UnconciousThe Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not ...

This volume represents the 30 years‘ aftershocks of the cataclysmic battles of the 1960s, as recorded by one of the major journalists of that gener...

This volume represents the 30 years‘ aftershocks of the cataclysmic battles of the 1960s, as recorded by one of the major journalists of that gener...

Today, media commentators, intellectuals and politicians declare that western science and rationality are threatened by irrational enemies. Evangel...

Slavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public...

Nearly Everything We Think We Know about Greek Tragedy Is WrongIf Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here...

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its ...

Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every...

Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession—The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France’s most inspiring social...

An incisive case for trans justice from a powerful new voiceIn this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisiv...

The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, originally published in Science and Society in the early 1950s, is one of the most famou...

The renowned postmodernist philosopher’s tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revoluti...

 The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the futur...

The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future...

Allegations that America is in decline have become commonplace in the years since the Cold War ended in victory for the United States: Washington, ...

The crisis of Ulster Unionism and the future of Northern IrelandThe fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run throug...

A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social mediaFormer social media executives tell us...

A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov’s influential novelWe know the girl and her story, just as we know the tit...

A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov’s influential novelWe know the girl and her story, just as we know the tit...

Marx was the Darwin of labor, founding the modern critical theory of work: the first full reconstruction and elaboration of Marx's theory.It is oft...

In this work, Jonathan Schell, the author of The Fate of the Earth, proposes that the defining characteristic of the twentieth century was the unco...

For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant moveme...