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by Malcolm Bull
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be— the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to...
Liberals and Cannibals
The Implications of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
With debates on the meaning of “liberal society” more heated than ever, this is a timely re-issue of a classic text
Can the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics be resolved within the framework of liberalism? How is liberal society to interpret...
Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers...
by Lord Acton, Otto Bauer, John Breuilly
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntingdon proposed his influential and troubling ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate commentators, policy analysts, and political theorists. No consensus exists concerning its identity, genesis, or future....
C.L.R. James
The Artist as Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biography
C.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary...
Frantz Fanon
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In Algeria, Fanon came into contact with...
The Darkest Days
The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War, 1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War may be commemorated by some as a great moment of national history. But the standard history of Britain’s choice for war is far from the truth. Using a wide range of sources, including the personal papers of many of the key figures, some for the...
by John Pilger
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations
John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic...
Anywhere or Not at All
Philosophy of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at...
An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War, with Marx writing on behalf of the International Working Men’s Association. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the urgency of suppressing slavery and the cause of “free labor.”...
The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention
The notion of a humanitarian “lesser evil” has become instrumental in justifying the West’s military adventures. It informs obscene calculations determining how much collateral damage is permissible...
Walter Benjamin's Archive
Images, Texts, Signs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents
The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art,...
Class War Conservatism
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband “The Man Who Hated Britain,” a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked with him – from both left and right – praised his work and character. He was lauded as “one of the best-known academic Marxists of his generation”...
Terrorism and Communism
A Reply to Karl Kautsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Trotsky and Slavoj iek defend revolutionary violence
Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj...