Verso Books: 696 books
Lavil
Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis
Seven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, all but ignored by the international community. At the center of this crisis is Lavil—“The...
Deport, Deprive, Extradite
21st Century State Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The extradition of terror suspects reveals the worst features of the security state
In 2012 five Muslim men—Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan, Khalid al-Fawwaz, Adel Abdul Bary, and Abu Hamza—were extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism-related charges. Fahad Hashmi was deported a few...
The Russian Revolution
A View from the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy
In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the...
In Broad Daylight
Movies and Spectators After the Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics,...
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality
A Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts
Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that...
by Sheila Rowbotham
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women’s oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism, this foundational text shows how the roles women adopt within the capitalist economy have shaped ideas about family and sexuality. Examining feminist consciousness...
The Muslims Are Coming!
Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Powerful critique of UK and US surveillance and repression of Muslims and prosecution of homegrown terrorism
The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in...
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Written by the pioneering scientist, theorist and activist J. D. Bernal, this futuristic essay explores the radical changes to human bodies and intelligence that science may bring about, and suggests the impact of these developments on society. Bernal presents a far-reaching vision of the future that...
by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, Mao Tse-Tung
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China
The Chinese Revolution, which fought its way to power seventy years ago, was a complex and protracted event in which groups and individuals with different hopes and expectations for the Revolution competed, although in the end Mao came to rule over...
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...