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Lenin 2017

Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

by Slavoj Zizek, V. I. Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today V. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original...

The Communist Manifesto

A Modern Edition

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012

In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word “capitalism” itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis...

A World to Win

The Life and Works of Karl Marx

by Sven-Eric Liedman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birth In this essential new biography—the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx—Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent passages...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly on the work of Lukács, Korsch...

The Hidden God

A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine

by Lucien Goldmann, Michael Lowy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

A new edition of a major philosophical work This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept...
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011

The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its four riders of the apocalypse are the ecological crisis, the consequences of the biogenetic revolution, the imbalances within the system itself (problems with intellectual...
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009

In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Žižek looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Examining Heidegger’s seduction by fascism and Foucault’s flirtation with the Iranian Revolution, he suggests that these were the ‘right...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

An urgent and provocative account of the modern ‘militant’, a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou’s contention that the...
by Franco Moretti
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ** How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them...

Radical Happiness

Moments of Collective Joy

by Lynne Segal
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular...
by David Roediger
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship David Roediger’s influential work on working people who have come to identify as white has so illuminated questions of identity that its grounding in Marxism has sometimes been missed. This new volume implicitly and explicitly...
by Helena Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that shaped it. Skilfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan shows how Marx and Engel’s...
by Massimo Salvadori
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

This first modern study provides an original and balanced perspective of a theorist whom Lenin referred to as both ‘master of Marxism’ and ‘renegade’. Examining Kautsky’s political thought over a period stretching from the Paris Commune to the Second World War, the author argues for the...

Red Flag Unfurled

History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution

by Ronald Suny
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017

Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after the October Uprising, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores how scholars and political scientists have tried to understand...
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