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A new perspective on the neoliberal world through the prism of rents and rentiers

An eminent historian's critical history of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

What does care mean? who exactly is paying for the Global Financial Crisis in term of care?

What keeps capitalism afloat

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new edition.

Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France

An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance.In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancire from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the ';discovery' of totalitarianism by the ';new philosophers,' the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Rancire challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

Gives politics the following meaning: the organization of dissent.

A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist.

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work

An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left's foremost political economists.

A handbook for how to organize to meet immediate needs in your community and work toward lasting change.

A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek

A striking account of the European Left in the twentieth century by one of its main protagonists

Leader of Latin America's powerful new women's movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics

In The Notion of Authority, written in the1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojeve uncovers the conceptual premisesof four primary models of authority,examining the practical application of theirderivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France.This foundational text, translated here intoEnglish for the first time, is the missing piece in any discussion of sovereignty and politicalauthority, worthy of a place alongside the work of Weber, Arendt, Schmitt, Agambenor Dumezil. The Notion of Authority is a short andsophisticated introduction to Kojeve'sphilosophy of right. It captures its author'sintellectual interests at a time when he wasretiring from the career of a professionalphilosopher and was about to become oneof the pioneers of the Common Market and the idea of the European Union.

Philosopher, film star, father of 'post truth': the real story of Jacques Derrida

A history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matter

Vincent Ruggiero's wide ranging study takes in several authors, including Victor Hugo, Camus, Cervantes and Emile Zola, and addresses themes such as organized crime, the links between crime and drugs, political and administrative corruption, concepts of deviancy and the criminal justice process.

Here, in this fourth collection, Baudrillard's stance is less that of the interventionist intellectual analysing the world as critical subject, than of the barely participant observer, an "internal exile" watching the world with fierce insistence, yet registering our shortage of reality.

In this work, the authors explore the growing tensions and contradictions between Matthew Arnold's enduring ideal (that human beings "must be compelled to relish the sublime") and the contemporary world of work, pleasure and consumption.

Contemporary capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars and pacification in Central America. This study maps the transnational processes that have shaped the region's past and its possible futures.