Provides a portrait of the complex life and times of one of the twentieth century's most profound thinkers and describes her roles as intellectual, activist, union organizer, philosopher, and mystic.

“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” — TimeA companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections...

“The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.” With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book...

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links...

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of “critical theory”, Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism.Towards a New Manifesto shows the...

Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central...

Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker - from Plato and Aristotle onwards - was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite...

A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politicsIn this pithy and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general reader—one of the world's leading social...

Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the "Red Years" at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was already...

The essays in this book are the texts of four public lectures on Marx's Capital, delivered by C. P. Chandrasekhar on the occasion of 150 years since the publication of Volume 1. The essays are titled: "Capital and the Critique of Bourgeois Political...

Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been...

Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and...

Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated―a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth...

An ARTery Best Book of the YearAn Art of Manliness Best Book of the YearIn a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the...

What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. Political Hypocrisy is a...

A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaard's most engaging worksIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short...

Why philosophers have advocated simple living for 2,500 years―and why we ignore them at our perilFrom Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom,...

Žižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy.“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”—Ludwig WittgensteinThe good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of...