Books published by Verso Books

Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancire from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the ';discovery' of totalitarianism by the ';new philosophers,' the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Rancire challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist.

Why centrist politics in France is bound to fail

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work

An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left's foremost political economists.

A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek

A striking account of the European Left in the twentieth century by one of its main protagonists

Philosopher, film star, father of 'post truth': the real story of Jacques Derrida

A history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matter