Books published by Verso Books

A remarkable history of the formation of Marxist thought

Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.

A bold proposal for new thinking on education: the formation of a National Education Service

Pocket colour manifesto for a new futuristic feminism

Everything you have been told about creativity is wrong.

How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement are challenging China's authoritarian government

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the statesuch as in the Occupy movement in New York, London and across the worldthey create a gap of possibility. But too many on the Left remain stuck in this beautiful moment of promisethey argue for more of the same, further fragmenting issues and identities, rehearsing the last thirty years of left-wing defeat. In Crowds and Party, Dean argues that previous discussions of the party have missed its affective dimensions, the way it operates as a knot of unconscious processes and binds people together. Dean shows how we can see the party as an organization that can reinvigorate political practice.

Argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice.

A iA ek analyses the end of the world at the hands of the 'four riders of the apocalypse'.