Verso: 737 books
Judaism and Modernity
Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida
Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime ‘other’ of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction...
by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world
How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us?
These questions stand at...
The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialsim
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Exploring the connections between class, ideology and politics
In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in “post-Marxist” theory. Challenging their dissociation of politics from class, she elaborates...
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and...
Reading Capital
The Complete Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time
Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that...
De Colores Means All of Us
Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity
Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents...
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III
Political Writings 1: On Revolution-1897-1905
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece
This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg’s life and work—revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes,...
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece
The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism, one of the most important works...
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered...
Mistaken Identity
Race and Class in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle
Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find...
Close to Home
A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists,...
The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization,...
The Battlefield
Algeria 1988–2002: Studies in a Broken Polity
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of humanitarian interference, Algeria’s tragedy has been reduced to a clash of stereotypes: Islamists vs. a secular state,...
The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism
Secular Claims, Communal Realities
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left
With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization of the Indian polity has qualitatively advanced since the earlier edition...