Below is a reading list of selected books from Verso Books Philosophy and Theory collection:
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
Reading Capital: The Complete Edition by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière. Translated by Ben Brewster and David Fernbach
Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre. Edited by Stuart Elden. Translated by David Fernbach
Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art by Jacques Rancière. Translated by Zakir Paul
An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army by Fredric Jameson. Edited by Slavoj Žižek
Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek
Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek
Utopia by Thomas More. Supplement by Ursula K. Le Guin. Introduction by China Miéville
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase
The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today by Razmig Keucheyan
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm
The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan by Samo Tomšič
Walter Benjamin’s Archive by Walter Benjamin
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ by Michael Löwy. Translated by Chris Turner
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark
A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. Translated by John Cumming
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Fredric Jameson
The Essence of Nihilism by Emanuele Severino. Edited by Alessandro Carrera and Ines Testoni. Translated by Giacomo Donis
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
by Judith Butler
The Philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar
For Marx by Louis Althusser
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
See more of Verso Books philosophy/theory reading here.
For those interested in performing a review of any one (or more) of these book for URPE’s flagship journal, Review of Radical Political Economics, please get in touch with David Barkin
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