Books published by Verso Books

Discusses Derrida's political work and Derrida responds.

A ride through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.

Offers a critical survey of the ideas of rival intellectual groupings from the far right, the liberal center and the Marxist left, rarely considered in the same optic. This book presents a comparative examination of four remarkable minds of the radical right: Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt.

Presents the author's study of the founder of modern philosophy. This title is available in English.

Combines Schelling with popular film for a study of modern life.

The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art.

Gives politics the following meaning: the organization of dissent.

Provides an introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century.

A work, which presents an attack on the thoughts of Derrida, Foucault and Lacan.

Provides appraisals of major writers.

Presents radical meditation on language and philosophy.

Argues that the global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, this work reveals that there is surprising overlap where scholars commonly see antithesis.

Explores the crisis of modernity and the decisive assertion of technological modernism.

Identifies categories within everyday life, such as the theories of the semantic field and of moments.

Who do we choose when we fall in love? How do we make the love object into what we want? This work combines social theory, history, pop culture, autobiographical reflection and psychoanalysis to address these questions. It focuses on a number of relationships, particularly of Freud and his wife.

The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a deliberative democracy, and this text explores four contemporary cases in which the principles have been at least partially instituted.

Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential cultural critics. In these pages she examines the Orientalism that made Zhang Yimou the darling of international film festivals, and speculates on the value of Mao Zedong as an icon of post-revolutionary consumerism, for example.

Providing an analysis of Israel-Palestine coverage in the US media, this work reveals the persistent ways the "New York Times" has ignored principles of international law in order to shield its readers from Israel's lawlessness.