Verso Books: 696 books
Separate and Dominate
Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures
Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains...
by Richard Porton
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives—these characteristic clichés of anarchists in the popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In Film and the Anarchist Imagination, the first comprehensive survey of anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs...
Flass Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States
The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain...
by Dorothy Thompson, E.P Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which Chartism is understood. Reclaiming Chartism as a fully-blown working-class movement, Thompson intertwines her penetrating analyses of class with ground-breaking...
Russia Without Putin
Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia
It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media...
Claude Lévi-Strauss
A Critical Study of His Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology
As a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Lévi-Strauss’s assistant. Since then, Godelier has drawn on this experience to develop a profound and intimate grasp on the writings of his...
Philosophies of Defeat
The Jargon of Finitude
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2021
How radical thought has internalized the experience of defeat
A rising star of contemporary critical theory offers an expansive critique on a prominent tradition of thought, 'the jargon of finitude.' Associated with Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, over the past few decades this tradition...
by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy
Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically...
The Critical Legal Studies Movement
Another Time, A Greater Task
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternatives for society. The Critical Legal Studies Movement...
by Nanni Balestrini, Antonio Negri
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since...
Barbaric Sport
A Global Plague
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing broadside, assailing the ‘recent form of barbarism’ that is the global sporting event. Forget the Olympics and consider, under Perelman’s guidance, the ledger of inequities maintained by such supposedly harmless games.
They have...
Legislature by Lot
Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class
The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature...
Governing from the Skies
A Global History of Aerial Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing
“Tripoli, 1 November 1911: I decided that today I would try to drop bombs from the aeroplane … if I succeed I shall be happy to have been the first.”
—Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti
At its inception,...
Tackling Rugby
What Every Parent Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
On 29 January 2011, Benjamin Robinson was playing rugby for his school. During the match he sustained a concussion but was not taken off, and was allowed to continue with the game, in which he endured a second impact. When play ended, he collapsed, dying two days later as a result of his injuries.
Every...