Product Description: In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers—regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies...read more

First published in 1987, "Althusser, The Detour of Theory" was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser s return to Marx in the mid-1960s; analysed the novel character of the Marxism developed in his major works; charted their author s subsequent evolution, from his self-criticism to the proclamation of a crisis of Marxism; and concluded with a balance-sheet of Althusser s contribution to historical materialism. For this second edition, Gregory Elliott has added a substantial postscript in which he surveys the posthumous edition of the French philosopher s work published in the 1990s, from the early writings of the 1940s through to the late texts of the 1980s, relating the unknown Althusser revealed by them to the familiar figure of "For Marx" and "Reading Capital," together with a comprehensive bibliography of Althusser s oeuvre."

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to give a precise meaning to the formula: English is the language of imperialism. Understanding that statement involves a critique of the dominant views of language, both in the field of linguistics (the book has a chapter criticising Chomsky s research programme) and of the philosophy of language (the book has a chapter assessing Habermas s philosophy of communicative action)...read more

Product Description: Without denying the contradictory character of Marx’s thought, Daniel Bensaïd sets out to demonstrate that it was not a philosophy of the end of history, an empirical sociology of classes, or a positive science of economics positing an inexorable progress towards an ineluctable communism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Outlines a new concept of the image in contemporary art to demonstrate how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined, in a provocative manifesto that traces the work of key thinkers and movements that seeks to demonstrate how contemporary theorists are suffering from religious tendencies as a result of political influences.

Offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Samuel Beckett that emphasizes the historical in his body of work and explores the subversive nature of his writings, as well as the literary revolution he spawned.

Looks at French philosophy since the 1970s arguing that the 'master-thinkers' of the 1960s were followed by an era of mediocrity.

Product Description: Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siecle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears widely disorientated by the dramatic ‘modernization’ of a political tradition dating back to the nineteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Elliott, Gregory (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book situates Althusser and his texts within the wider histories and cultures to which they belong, drawing in contributors from a wide range of cultures and countries.

Product Description: Combining analysis and advocacy, this book argues that the cause of Labour's past electoral failures and present predicament is political not sociological. In place of adaptation to the post-Thatcher settlement recommended by many political pundits, "Labourism and the English Genius" argues an alternative strategy - democratization of the English Constitution and the emergent European order - as a precondition to a resumed struggle for socialism...read more