In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse.He arguesthat the law is how justice is implmented in secular society, but it isn
In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here,
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John BergerJohn Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972,
A powerful and progressive programme for the EurozoneThe Eurozone crisis since 2010 has instilled political disunity and generated a long period of economic stagnation. The cyclical recovery enjoyed i
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, iek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important todayV. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most
Award winning journalist chronicles the major conflict of our timesThis is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creat
An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined CommunitiesBenedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal bookImagined Communities has
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page beautiful homage to New York CityHere is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city,
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationshipSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise
The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical phi
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryThis is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the
A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing," revealing the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.
In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition. But we need more surrogacy, not less!The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its s
The genealogy of today’s disruptive protest movementsFrom environmentalists chaining themselves to logging equipment to global justice activists blockading the World Trade Organization summit to polic
A sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural, and economic struggles of gays and lesbiansAmerican Homo offers a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural and economic struggles of les
On the origins of European queer politicsCome Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new
The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it upOn September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College
