The System of Objects (Radical Thinke...
Jean BaudrillardA cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force – a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day....
A Theologico-Political Treatise and A...
Benedict de Spinoza2 important works. Spinoza's "A Theologico-Political Treatise" presents an eloquent plea for religious liberty, demonstrating that true religion consists of the practice of simple piety, independent of philosophical speculation. In th...
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis FukuyamaEver since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and wa...
State of Insecurity: Government of th...
Isabelle LoreyYears of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of l...
Political Philosophy: A Very Short In...
David MillerThis Very Short Introduction introduces readers to the key concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, multiculturalism, and nationality. Accessibly written and assuming no previo...
pstrongUntil September 11 we had had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself./strong/pBaudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter – not merely the rea...
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Gov...
Charles A. MurrayRespected author, scholar, and columnist Charles Murray has long challenged accepted notions of public and social policy issues. In this volume, originally published in 1988, Murray presents a persuasive and practical argument that re...
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and O...
Thomas PainePublished in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence ...
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
Mark R. Levinb An intellectually bracing volume on America's transformation and the clash between constitutionalism and utopianism—from the author of the #1 i New York Times bestseller i Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin. /PHailed by Rush Limba...
Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art...
Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and...
Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, G...
Giorgio AgambenWhat does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free ...
Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing ...
Giorgio AgambenPontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Je...
The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and...
Giorgio AgambenIn 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of int...
Machiavelli and Us (Second Edition) ...
Louis Althusser“Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.“We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish ...
After the Flight 93 Election: The Vot...
Michael AntonIn September 2016, the provocative essay "The Flight 93 Election" galvanized many voters by spotlighting the stakes ahead in November and reproaching complacent elements of the Right. It also drew disparagement from many who...
The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. B...
Metapolitics (Radical Thinkers)
Alain BadiouMetapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection.Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, ...
Politics and the Other Scene (Radical...
Etienne BalibarEssays on politics by the pupil of Althusser.As one of Louis Althusser's most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the theoretical collective masterpiece of Reading Capital. Since then he has established him...
The Accidental Activist: Stories, Spe...
Matt BallFor more than twenty years, Matt Ball has worked to develop the most effective methods for activists to communicate a profound but simple truth: that our fundamental responsibility toward other animals is to reduce their suffering as ...
Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Oxford Wo...
Edward BellamyJulian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is contro...
Futurability: The Age of Impotence an...
Francesco BerardiA comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the presentWe live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem incapable of...
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
Francesco BerardiWhat is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco "Bifo" Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching fo...
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to ...
Franco BerardiWe can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities are abolished. Attention is under siege everywhere. Not silence but uninterrupted noise, not the...
Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics a...
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answe...
Michael Brooks"A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their propaganda." Ana Kasparian, Host...
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Beha...
Bruce Bueno de MesquitaFor eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps th...
Engels: A Very Short Introduction
Terrell CarverIt is by no means absurd to say that Engels invented Marxism. His work did more than Marx's to attract and make converts to the most influential political movement of modern times. He was not only the father of dialectical and histori...
Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one...
Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Derrida...
Simon CritchleyPowerful and provocative, explores the relation of ethical experience to politics.In Ethics – Politics – Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical expe...