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by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? In the Tracks of Historical Materialism looks at some of the paradoxes in the evolution of Marxist thought...
Feminism for the 99%
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Named one of Vogue’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”
This is a manifesto for the 99 percent
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest...
Fortunes of Feminism
From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.
During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and...
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?
The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown—symbolized by Trump’s election—has destroyed faith that neoliberal capitalism is beneficial to the majority. Nancy Fraser explores how this faith was built through...
by Deborah Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and Paris
Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent period. To assess these resources, it examines the work of two of the...
by Erik Olin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
One of the major works of the new American Marxism, Wright’s book draws a challenging new class map of the United States and other, comparable, advanced capitalist countries today. It also discusses the various classical theories of economic crisis in the West and their relevance to the current...
Marx and Human Nature
Refutation of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
“Marx did not reject the idea of a human nature. He was right not to do so.”
That is the conclusion of this passionate and polemical new work by Norman Geras. In it, he places the sixth of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach under rigorous scrutiny. He argues that this ambiguous statement—widely...
The Passage West
Philosophy After the Age of the Nation State
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In this ambitious work, Giacomo Marramao proposes a radical reconceptualization of the world system in our era of declining state sovereignty. He argues that globalization cannot be reduced to mere economics or summarized by phrases such as ‘the end of history’ or the ‘westernization of the...
The Capitalist Unconscious
Marx and Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s work
Finalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize
Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology—as witnessed...
by Chantal Mouffe
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?
We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a “populist moment” that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing populism. By establishing...
Annihilation of Caste
The Annotated Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936,...
Jeffrey Sachs
The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
An investigation of Sachs’s schizophrenic career, and the worldwide havoc he has caused.
Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and...
We Want Everything
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist
It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s “Hot Autumn.”
A young...
Communal Luxury
The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century
Kristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the...