New Book: Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West
By Deborah Cook. From Verso: Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to of
Social Theory
New Book: Marx’s Dream – From Capitalism to Communism
By Tom Rockmore. From University of Chicago Press: Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely throu
Michael Burawoy: Marxism Engages Bourdieu
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycIm1jkiUQ&w=640&h=360] The influence of Pierre Bourdieu
New Book: The Political Theory of Che Guevara
By Renzo Llorente. From Rowman & Littlefield: Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto “Che” Guevara remain
A short note on the essence of social theory
By David Fields, The epistemological practicality of social theory is to draw a unifying essence, a sensibility of coh
New Book: Capital and Time – For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
By Martijn Konings. From Stanford University Press: Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative ch
New Book: The Mismeasure of Wealth – Essays on Marx and Social Form
by Patrick Murray. From Haymarket Books: A wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with Marx’s key insights
New Book: The End of Progress – Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
By Amy Allen. From Columbia University Press: While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea
New Book: The Moral Economists – R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism
By Tim Rogan. From Princeton University Press: What’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on m
New Book: A Research Agenda for Neoliberalism
By Kean Birch. From Edward Elgar: At a time when neoliberalism has become an accepted term in public debate to refer to th
New Book: Knowledge, Class and Economics – Marxism without Guarantees
Edited by Theodore A. Burczak, Robert F. Garnett Jr., & Richard McIntyre. From Routledge: Knowledge, Class, and E
New Book: Literature of Revolution – Essays on Marxism
By Norman Geras. From Verso: This influential collection explores the pivotal texts and topics in the Marxist traditi
New Book by Robin Hahnel: Radical Political Economy – Sraffa Versus Marx
From Routledge: For too long radical political economy has suffered for lack of a coherent alternative to formal Marxi
New Book: The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
From Verso: Vivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as “without any d
New Book: Updated Edition of “The Philosophy of Marx” by Etienne Balibar
From Verso: Written by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of
Selected Titles from Verso Books Philosophy and Theory Collection
Below is a reading list of selected books from Verso Books Philosophy and Theory collection: Grand Hotel Abyss: The Liv
Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?
44 years ago Antipode published David Harvey’s essay “Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geograph
New Book by Edward Fullbrook: Narrative Fixation in Economics
From WEA Books: “This is a great book. Against the background of the dogmatism of much of modern economics, Fullb
New Book: Socialist Optimism, by Paul Auerbach
From Palgrave: Paul Auerbach’s Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first cen