Verso Books: 696 books
The Man Who Closed the Asylums
Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry
In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime...
Lacan
In Spite Of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan’s career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity....
Humankind
Solidarity with Non-Human People
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans
What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed object-oriented philosopher...
Freud
The Theory of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A clearly written and highly organized introduction of the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers
Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar and Africa throughout the twentieth century to extend Lacanian psychoanalytical methods into the field of ethnology. He is best known...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical scholarship by a socialist today. An...
Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?
Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the...
Futurability
The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present
We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed....
Inside This Place, Not of It
Narratives from Women's Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. Here, in their own words, thirteen narrators recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once inside.
Among the...
Storytelling
Bewitching the Modern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The narrative spell cast over politics and society
Politics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way that it is perceived. In Storytelling Christian Salmon looks at the twenty-first-century hijacking of...
The Mosaic of Islam
A Conversation with Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A comprehensive introduction to the faith and politics of Islam
Today, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, Perry Anderson interviews the noted scholar of Islam Suleiman Mourad about the Qurʾan...
by Thomas More, Ursula K. Le Guin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers
Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony,...
Gandhi
A Political and Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Throughout his long and turbulent career as a political leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfil his religious aspirations through politics and to reconcile politics with personal religious conviction. But Gandhi’s religion was wildly divergent from anything to have...
by Ilan Pappe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel
In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of...
Revolution in the Age of Social Media
The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Egypt's January 25 revolution was triggered by a Facebook page and played out both in virtual spaces and the streets. Social media serves as a space of liberation, but it also functions as an arena where competing forces vie over the minds of the young as they battle over ideas as important as the...