Author:
Publisher: Verso Books
Keywords: specters, marx, derrida, jacques, demarcations, symposium, ghostly
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1859847099
ISBN-13: 9781859847091

With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx’s texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely intervention in one of today’s most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive program projected by Specters of Marx. The volume features sympathetic meditations on the relationship between Marxism and deconstructi

Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso Books
Keywords: air, melts, solid
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1983-10-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0860917851
ISBN-13: 9780860917854

Marshall Berman’s "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture.

Authors:Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari,
Publisher: Verso Books
Keywords: philosophy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-06-24
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0860916863
ISBN-13: 9780860916864

"The question ’what is philosophy?’ can perhaps only be posed lat in life, with the arrival of old age and the time for speaking concretely. It is a question posed in a moment of quiet restlessness, at midnight, when there is no longer anything to ask." Posing that question, Deleuze and Guattari worked together for what turned out to be the last tiome, to produce a book which can be seen as a condensation of everything they had written before, together and separately. Twenty years on from their endlessly influential Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari have lost none of their inspira

Author: Paul Gilroy
Publisher: Verso Books
Keywords: consciousness, double, modernity, atlantic, black
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1993-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0860916758
ISBN-13: 9780860916758

This text sketches a critical account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The book explores the reactions of black writers to modernity’s colour-coded promises, demonstrating the value of a politicized post-modernism in re-reading black cultural politics and political culture. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences outside the US in Europe and Africa. Gilroy provides an extensive discussion of black

Authors:Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker,
Publisher: Verso Books
Keywords: revolutionary, atlantic, history, hidden, hydra, headed
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2000-11-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1859847986
ISBN-13: 9781859847985

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Verso Books
Keywords: memories, cool
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1990-08
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 086091500X
ISBN-13: 9780860915003

Baudrillard’s last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa-Romeos, leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, John Paul II, roses, Antartica, Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, porn films, snow, feminism, Rio, Lacan, Stevie Wonder, DNA and Terrorism.

Author: Etienne Balibar
Publisher: Verso Books
Keywords: politics, spinoza
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1998-07
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 185984801X
ISBN-13: 9781859848012

Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era. Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza’s major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza’s major treatises in the period in which they were written.