Verso Books: 696 books
Sex-Pol
Essays, 1929-1934
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich’s writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human suffering. And the same curiosity and courage that led him from medical school to join the early pioneers...
Fire Alarm
Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher
Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism—Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifiable”...
Straight Sex
Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? This is the central question of Straight Sex, Lynne Segal’s account of twentyfive years of feminist thinking on sexuality. Covering the thought of sixties-era sexual liberationists, alongside the ensuing passionate debates over sex and love within...
Fanaticism
On the Uses of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations
It is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside...
by Eliot Weinberger
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Muhammad is a shimmering, lyrical biography of the Prophet, composed from the words of Muslims throughout the centuries. Drawing on a variety of Islamic sources, from the hadith, or sayings of Muhammad and his companions, to Abbasid and Persian texts, Weinberger weaves a subtle, mystical prose poem,...
Critique of Everyday Life
The Three-Volume Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the...
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche
Or the Realm of Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
The great French Marxist philosopher weighs up the contributions of the three major critics of modernity
With the translation of Lefebvre's philosophical writings, his stature in the English-speaking world continues to grow. Though certainly within the Marxist tradition, he consistently saw...
by Jean Baudrillard
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter—not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics,...
Care
The Political Economy of Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care
We are living through a crisis of care. Looking at austerity measures, cuts and closures, it is easy to conclude that there is a lack of care, that we exist in a society that is careless. Care--the practice of valuing...
War and Revolution
Rethinking the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent years. It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses...
Mobility Justice
The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis...
Deep Mountain
Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2020
From the Armenian communities of Venice Beach and Paris, to Turkey and Armenia, Deep Mountain is a nuanced and moving exploration of the living history and continuing denial of the Armenian genocide. Encountering writers, thinkers and activists from across the Turkish-Armenian divide, Ece Temelkuran...
The Return of the Public
Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years. At the same time, journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s News International and elsewhere have been breaking the law on an industrial scale....
Dispatches from the Dark Side
On Torture and the Death of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legalprinciples and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the‘War on Terror’. Exploring the few cases of torture that have come to light, such asthose of Guantánamo detainees Shafiq Rasul and Binyam...