Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classics. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the famous College de France.

These seminal events, attended by thousands, created the benchmarks for contemporary social enquiry. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal j...

From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.

The seamy underside of humanitarianism

Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.

A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law

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 Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought that the text had been destroyed.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...

"First published by Verso in 2015"--Title page verso.

The defining, best-selling book on the history, origins and development of nationalism