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Willing Slaves Of Capital
Spinoza And Marx On Desire
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that...
Syrian Notebooks
Inside the Homs Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A blistering firsthand account of the conflict in Homs by the internationally acclaimed author of The Kindly Ones
“We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they’re only fighting to save their skin.”
In 2012, Jonathan Littell...
Literature of Revolution
Essays on Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Essential essays on key Marxist writers from a leading political thinker
Literature of Revolution explores the pivotal texts and topics in the Marxist tradition, drawing on the works of Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Lenin, and Althusser. In close dialogue with common themes and arguments in revolutionary...
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
Althusser dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopher
Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars,...
The Spectre Of Hegel
Early Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological...
Land Grabbing
Journeys In The New Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
To the governments and corporations buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is ‘land leasing’; to its critics, it is nothing better than ‘land grabbing’ – the engine powering a new era of colonialism. In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of fertile soil are
stolen...
by Christopher Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Remarkable reinterpretation of Milton and his poetry by one of the most famous historians of the 17th Century
In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician,...
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists,...
The Management of Savagery
How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism
In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s...
Citizens to Lords
A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood lays out her innovative approach to the history of political theory and traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Her “social history” is a significant departure from other contextual...
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
One of the most incisive, heterodox analysts of contemporary American politics and society turns his attention to the demographic revolution that is already—albeit largely quietly thus far—transforming American politics. The dilemma of the modern Republican party is that its most active element,...
Paul Robeson
A Watched Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African American singer was the voice of the people, both on stage and as a political activist who refused to be silenced as he fought for the rights...
Order Out of Chaos
Man's New Dialogue with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis
*Order Out of Chaos *is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya...
Night Haunts
A Journey Through the London Night
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2025
London at night has always been seen as a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is it now as bland and unthreatening as any new town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered neutral by street lighting and CCTV cameras. His nocturnal...