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Pocket Pantheon
Figures of Postwar Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today’s leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon—his teachers, opponents and allies—to...
by Jacques Ranciere
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in literature and theatre. From literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the...
The Earth
From Myths to Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth
Our planet’s elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high school student is expected to grasp. But humanity’s struggle towards these scientific...
The Fiery Brook
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Feuerbach’s departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has long been acknowledged as the influence for much of Marx’s early writings.
Indeed, a great amount of the young Marx must remain unintelligible...
Revolution in the Revolution?
Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che’s own pamphlets, with which it can compete in terms of historical...
by Regis Debray
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
American civilization’s dominance over Europe—and what to do about it
In 1900, an American of taste was a European in exile; in 2000, a trendy European is a frustrated American—or one waiting for a visa.
Régis Debray explores America’s global cultural ascendancy in this provocative...
So They Call You Pisher!
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner
In this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children’s poet and political campaigner Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. He was born in the North London suburbs, and his parents, Harold...
Redemption and Utopia
Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of German Romanticism...
The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a...
The Experience of Defeat
Milton and Some Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?
The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of “God’s cause”—a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period concentrate on the court,...
The Non-Jewish Jew
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics
In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with a calm clear-sightedness. As a historian he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth of understanding;...
The Autonomous City
A History of Urban Squatting
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city
The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London,...
It Started in Wisconsin
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings—and pizzas—to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison, and 150,000 demonstrators converged...
by Kathi Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject
One of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity,...