In Women, Resistance and Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of fem-inist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust state system and patriarchal social prejudice... Zobraziť viac
In this fiery, theoretical tour de force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools:... Zobraziť viac
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism's origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by... Zobraziť viac
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses,... Zobraziť viac
A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukacs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally published in 1952, the book is a sustained and detailed... Zobraziť viac
Why the market will never solve the climate crisis... Zobraziť viac
Following his best-selling A Philosophy of Walking Gros explores the philosophy of disobedience. The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of... Zobraziť viac
Philosophy at the end of the world... Zobraziť viac
A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape... Zobraziť viac
What does political agency mean for those who don’t know what to do or can’t be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collective emancipation in which freedom is achieved not through knowledge and action but via doubt and inertia... Zobraziť viac
What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation.When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever... Zobraziť viac
Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory:existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought... Zobraziť viac
The father of psychoanalytic philosophy’s invaluable introduction to his own thought, available in English for the first time. Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and... Zobraziť viac
Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people.He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his... Zobraziť viac
In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements... Zobraziť viac
In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate on the conflict-ridden period of Freud’s life when he abandoned hypnosis and invented psychoanalysis... Zobraziť viac
In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off... Zobraziť viac
Banned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said's final book. "Freud and the Non-European" builds on Said's abiding interest in the psychoanalyst's work to examine Freud's ... Zobraziť viac
Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out ... Zobraziť viac
