Verso Books (5)
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Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
2024 || Paperback || Noam Chomsky e.a. || Verso Books
Can capitalism survive climate change? Can humanity?
Abnormal
Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975
2016 || Paperback || Michel Foucault || Verso Books
Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classics. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the famous College de France.
These seminal events, attended by thousands, created the benchmarks for contemporary social enquiry. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal j...
A Defence of History and Class Consciousness
Tailism and the Dialectic
2002 || Paperback || Georg Lukacs || Verso Books
In the mid 1920s Lukacs wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness. Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought that the text had been destroyed. However, a group of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow.
Now for the first time, this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectu...
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The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan
A Chronicle Foretold
2024 || Paperback || Tariq Ali || Verso Books
The story of NATO's disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, and how it repeated the mistakes of the Soviet occupation which preceded it
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Ten Myths About Israel
2024 || Paperback || Ilan Pappe || Verso Books
An urgent, updated reissue of the essential book on the myths-and reality-behind the state of Israel