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by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II
In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.
He takes photographs from...
Lives on the Left
A Group Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir with a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing formats. Lives on the Left brings...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Today, the Indian state claims to possess a harmonious territorial unity, to embody the values of a stable political democracy, and to adhere to a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But does the “idea...
The Rebirth of History
Times of Riots and Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers—regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both events occurred after what was commonly...
Traces of History
Elementary Structures of Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native Americans in the United States, on Ashkenazi Jews in...
Racecraft
The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.”...
Seizing Freedom
Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil War
How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom...
How Race Survived US History
From Settlement and Slavery to The Eclipse of Post-Racialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600’s to the present day. From the late seventeenth century—the era in which DuBois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American...
Frames of War
When Is Life Grievable?
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential...
The Force of Nonviolence
The Ethical in the Political
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Towards a form of aggressive non-violence - following on from Butler's Precarious Life and Frames of War
Situating non-violence at the cross-roads of the ethical and political, The Force of Non-Violence brings into focus the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence.
Non-violence...
by Greg Grandin
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography—I, Rigoberta Menchú—transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought its author international renown. She...
The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
All of Marx's essential political writing in one volume
Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. For the first time ever, this book brings together all of his essential political and historical writings in one volume....
Marx and Freud in Latin America
Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artists during times of political and cultural oppression.
Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies...