Books published by Verso Books

Claims that the election of Nicholas Sarkozy as President is not an event, nor is it the cause for wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth.

An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.

Examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late nineteenth century onwards. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-Eastern European nationalism and settler movements, this title shows how its texts can be placed within a discourse of western colonization.

In this study of De Gaulle, the author offers an indictment of the shallowness of contemporary politics in the West. He suggests that De Gaulle's disdain for electioneering reaffirms the vocation of political leadership as something other than adapting to popular preferences.

Confronts the great machinery of deception in which we live, and which threatens to destroy our civilization. In particular, the author takes to task a group of prominent intellectuals who have exaggerated the threat posed by the so-called forces of unreason - religion, postmodernism and other "mumbo-jumbo".

Written by a Communications Officer for the train-drivers'union ASLEF, this volume exposes the history of mismanagement of Britain's rail network since privatization. A new afterword brings the story up to date, including details on the Potter's Bar accident.

This study serves as a survey of analytical Marxists' contributions to the understanding of historical materialism, exploitation, class structure, method, politics and ethics - which Marcus Roberts brings right up to date with some considerations on John Roemer's recent work on models of socialism.

A new, expanded edition which includes an additional five interviews in which Habermas discusses such themes as the history and significance of the Frankfurt School, the social and political development of post-war Germany and the moral status of civil disobedience.

This series of linked essays is an accessible intervention in the current debates about realism which are of increasing significance on both sides of the Atlantic. It is designed to underlabour both for the sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform.Elaborating his own highly original critical realist perspective on society, nature, science and philosophy itself. Roy Bhaskar shows how this new perspective can be used to undermine currently fashionable ideologies of the right and, at the same time. to clear the ground for a reinvigorated left. Reclaiming Reality contains powerful critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers of our time — from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and Habermas. It advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.Providing a straightforward and stimulating introduction to current debates in the philosophy of science and of social theory, for the interested lay reader and student alike. this book will be of particular value for all those concerned with the socialist emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical tradition.

Bestselling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain

Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt