Verso Books: 696 books
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...
A Writer of Our Time
The Life and Work of John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger
John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way...
Homo Juridicus
On the Anthropological Function of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life
In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse.
He argues that the law is how justice is implmented in secular society, but it is not simply a technique...
by Ernst Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
“In 1968 we celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. We still have reason to hope for a concrete celebration in 2018”
With a demonstrably thorough grasp of Marxist thought, and seemingly effortless literary flair, Ernst Bloch provides both the well-versed...
The Faith of the Faithless
Experiments in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliché of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound...
The Philosophy Of Praxis
Marx, Lukács And The Frankfurt School
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Philosophy of Praxis examines the work of four Marxist thinkers, the early Marx and Lukács, and the Frankfurt School philosophers Adorno and Marcuse. The book holds that fundamental philosophical problems are in reality social problems, abstractly conceived. This argument has two implications: on...