Studieboeken (8)
Feminism for the 99%
A Manifesto
2023 || Paperback || Cinzia (Translator of In Defense of Lost Causes) Arruzza e.a. || Verso Books
From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.
Humanitarian Borders
Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives
2024 || Paperback || Polly Pallister-Wilkins || Verso Books
The seamy underside of humanitarianism
Precarious Life
The Powers of Mourning and Violence
2024 || Paperback || Judith Butler || Verso Books
Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.
A Defence of History and Class Consciousness
Tailism and the Dialectic
2002 || Paperback || Georg Lukacs || Verso Books
In the mid 1920s Lukacs wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness. Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought that the text had been destroyed. However, a group of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow.
Now for the first time, this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectu...
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
2020 || Paperback || Benedict Anderson || Verso Books
What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, f...
Planet of Slums
2024 || Paperback || Mike Davis || Verso Books
New edition of the classic, bestselling (100,000+ copies) worldwide survey of slums by the world's leading urbanist
In Defense of Housing
The Politics of Crisis
2024 || Paperback || Peter Marcuse e.a. || Verso Books
New edition of classic text on the nature of the housing crisis