For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan... 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
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed. Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores ... Zobraziť viac
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist... 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
One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its scope. This book aims to understand the passage from... Zobraziť viac
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasingly dystopian management technologies.In Cyberboss,... Zobraziť viac
The Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of American financial power from the disintegration of robber baron J. P. Morgan’s vast empire to the rise of finance behemoth BlackRock. Contrary to what is taken for common... 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
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
The leading philosopher of our time tackles the demise of liberalism, from the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown... Zobraziť viac
