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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 Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly...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...
Planet/Cuba
Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era
Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed...
Simple Forms
Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairytale, Joke
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time
Legend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple forms” as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (1966–69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, the editors of the Cahiers sought...
Age of Folly
America Abandons Its Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror
In office as President of the United States, Donald J. Trump is undoubtedly a menace, but he isn’t a surprise. He embodies the spirit of an age of folly abandoned to conspicuous consumption...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines the Declaration of Independence and other texts by Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides a biting critique of the current American administration. Introducing this collection of Jefferson’s...
by Dan Hancox
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The land is for those who work it—"La tierra es de quien la trabaja."
One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix...
Women, Resistance and Revolution
A History Of Women And Revolution In The Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution...