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...
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commi...
Simon CritchleypstrongA new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy./strong/pThe clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, emInfinitely D...
Great Political Theories V.1: A Compr...
Michael CurtisAs an introduction to political theory and science, this collection of writings by the great philosophers will be of close interest to general readers. It also serves as a basic textbook for students of government and political theor...
Great Political Theories V.2: A Compr...
Michael CurtisThis carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers has long been an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, polit...
The Happiness Industry: How the Gover...
William DaviesIn winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable d...
SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating...
Vox DayWhether you realize it or not, if you live in the West, you are currently engulfed in a civilization-wide cultural war that is taking place all around you. Maybe you're aware of it, or maybe you're not. It doesn't matter. The cultural...
SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thou...
Vox DaySocial Justice Warriors have plagued mankind for more than 150 years, but only in the last 30 years has their ideology become dominant in the West. Having invaded one institution of the cultural high ground after another, from corpora...
The Situationist book that helped inspire the May 1968 revolt in France. Arguably the most influential book of radical theory in the last fifty years. This new translation by Ken Knabb is the only edition to include extensive annotati...
The Society of the Spectacle (Critica...
Guy DebordFew works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this boo...
Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolu...
Terry EagletonFrom our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.“Eagleton is second to none among cultural critics writing in the English language today.” --Guardian
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everyth...
The Origin of the Family, Private Pro...
Friedrich EngelsA new edition of a pioneering materialist treatise Exploring the way that production affects the social issues of class division and family, Engels develops his arguments on private property and its relationship to the subjugation of...
The Power of Tolerance: A Debate
Rainer ForstWe invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into pr...
What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A D...
Sherif GergisUntil very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male–female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining ...
In 1848, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the spectre of Marx would haunt the post-Cold War world. In Specters of Revolt, Gilman-Opalsky argues that the world is ...
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral ...
Adam GopnikA stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, fr...
House of Cards and Philosophy: Underw...
J. Edward HackettIs Democracy overrated?Does power corrupt? Or do corrupt people seek power?Do corporate puppet masters pull politicians' strings? Why does Frank talk to the camera? Can politics deliver on the promise of justice?House of Cards depicts...
In the Swarm: Digital Prospects
Byung-Chul HanThe shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication. -- from In the SwarmDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters ...
Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding ...
Leviathan is a work of political philosophy. Written by Thomas Hobbes during a time of civil war, it argues that sovereign rule is the most stable form of government. An early proponent of social contract theory, Hobbes observations r...
Waking Up from the American Dream
Gregory HoodIt's a time of transition for the American Right. The old ideas are failing. The conservative movement is disintegrating. And the European Americans who defined and created the United States are rising in defense of their own identity...
Public Sphere and Experience: Analysi...
Alexander KlugeThe "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it con...
Down to Earth, Politics in the New Cl...
Bruno LaTourThe present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalizatio...
Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Re...
Maurizio LazzaratoWhy we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose revolution over fascism. We are living in apocalyptic times. In Capital Hates Everyone, famed sociologist Maurice Lazzarato points to a stark choice emerging fro...
Governing by Debt (Semiotext(e) / Int...
Maurizio LazzaratoExperts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path t...
The Making of the Indebted Man: Essay...
Maurizio LazzaratoThe debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, ...
The State and Revolution (Skeptical R...
V. I. Lenin"The State and Revolution" describes the role that the state plays in society along with the necessity of proletarian revolution. Written for a Marxist audience, Lenin criticizes the actions of the social democrats that dominated the ...
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in P...
Mark LillaEuropean history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose work depends on freedom d...