RADICAL THINKERS SET 5 &
RADICAL THINKERS CLASSIC EDITIONS
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RADICAL THINKERS SET 5
Verso presents Set 5 of the highly popular Radical Thinkers series, continuing its commitment to bring classic works of philosophy to a new audience readership through affordable, attractively designed new editions.
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LAUNCH EVENT with TARIQ ALI and PETER OSBORNE
MEDITATIONS ON SPINOZA: THE APOSTLE OF REASON
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/22966.htm
Part of the ‘In Defense of Philosophy’ series at Tate Modern
Friday 25th February 2011, 18.30
Tate Modern, Bankside London SE1 9TG
Christopher Spencer’s SPINOZA: THE APOSTLE OF REASON (1994) is the second film to be shown in the In Defense of Philosophy series. Written by Tariq Ali, the film presents the life and thought of Baruch Spinoza against the turmoil of seventeenth-century Europe. A fascinating modern man, Spinoza challenged orthodoxy in both religion andpolitics, angering his traditional contemporaries. Spinoza’s remarkable intellectual legacy has influenced thinkers as varied as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gilles Deleuze, Albert Einstein and John Berger.
The film will be followed by a conversation with Tariq Ali and PeterOsborne.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online here http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/22966.htm
or call 020 7887 8888.
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RADICAL THINKERS SET 5
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ALL BOOKS / PAPERBACK / ONLY £8.99/$15.95
BUY THE FULL SET FOR THE DISCOUNT PRICE OF £85
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Louis Althusser – MACHIAVELLI AND US, 978 1 84467 675 0
“Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.
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Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein – RACE, NATION, CLASS: AMBIGUOUS IDENTITIES, 978 1 84467 671 2
The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.
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Jean Baudrillard – PASSWORDS, 978 1 84467 676 7
In the spirit of Deleuze’s Abécédaire, PASSWORDS offers twelve entry points into Baudrillard’s thought.
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Jeremy Bentham – THE PANOPTICON WRITINGS, 978 1 84467 666 8
A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power.
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Guy Debord – COMMENTS ON THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE,
978 1 84467 672 9
“Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.” – Michael Löwy
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Hal Foster – DESIGN AND CRIME, 978 1 84467 670 5
“DESIGN AND CRIME is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout.”—Greil Marcus
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André Gorz - CRITIQUE OF ECONOMIC REASON, 978 1 84467 667 5
“Gorz’s greatest work, and a crucial book for our time.” – LE MONDE
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Fredric Jameson – BRECHT AND METHOD, 978 1 84467 677 4
“Elegant dissection of Brecht’s method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond.”— MODERN DRAMA
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Peter Osborne – THE POLITICS OF TIME: MODERNITY AND AVANT-GARDE, 978 1 84467 673 6
Elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition.
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Edward W. Soja – POSTMODERN GEOGRAPHIES: THE REASSERTION OF SPACE IN CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY, 978 1 84467 669 9
“One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written.”—David Harvey
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Sebastiano Timpanaro – FREUDIAN SLIP: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM, 978 1 84467 674 3
“A firework display of erudition.”—Perry Anderson
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Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler – CONTINGENCY, HEGEMONY, UNIVERSALITY, 978 1 84467 668 2
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis
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Radical Thinkers Set 5 (full set) 978 1 84467 678 1
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Praise for RADICAL THINKERS:
“An extremely pleasant surprise: a new imprint from Verso called Radical Thinkers, and a pile of white-covered paperbacks by the likes of Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson, Guy Debord and Walter Benjamin. Not only do they have nifty cover designs, they are ridiculously cheap.” Nick Lezard, GUARDIAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/15/jean-baudrillard-transparency-of-evil
“A compendium of left-wing philosophical and political thought, inoculating itagainst the ‘great idea’ of philosophy-as-self-help. As a way of transforming… formless disgust into educated critique, these books are a fine, cheap and decidedly elegant starting point.” Owen Hatherley
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/radical-thought/
“A golden treasury of theory” Eric Banks, BOOKFORUM
“Verso's beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The 12 authors whose writings are included in the series have worked tirelessly toexpose the mechanisms by which culture and knowledge are manufactured, managed and controlled.” Ziauddin Sardar, NEW STATESMAN
http://www.newstatesman.com/200604170041
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For more information & to buy the books visit:
http://www.versobooks.com/series_collections/5-radical-thinkers
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RADICAL THINKERS CLASSIC EDITIONS
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To celebrate 40 years of radical publishing, Verso is reissuing four of the most popular and seminal titles from previous Radical Thinkers series in beautiful new hardback editions with black and red foil-embossed covers.
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RADICAL THINKERS CLASSIC EDITIONS:
HARDBACKS (EACH) £14.99/$24.95
BUY THE FULL SET FOR THE DISCOUNT PRICE OF £45
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Theodor Adorno – MINIMA MORALIA: REFLECTIONS FROM DAMAGED LIFE, 978 1 84467 661 3
“A classic of twentieth century thought…whose translation is by far the best yet done of any work of Critical Theory.” – TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.” – Susan Sontag
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Louis Althusser – FOR MARX, 978 1 84467 662 0
“Louis Althusser influenced so manydiscourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative voice of his thought.” – Jacques Derrida
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Raymond Williams – CULTURE AND MATERIALISM, 978 1 84467 663 7
“The left's foremost cultural historian and critic” - COMMENT
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Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertold Brecht, Georg Lukács – AESTHETICS AND POLITICS, 978 1 84467 664 4
“They are key texts in the study of modernism, of expressionist drama and of realism, and of many closely related general questions ... It is genuinely an indispensable volume.”
– Raymond Williams
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Radical Thinkers Classic Editions (full set) 978 1 84467 665 1
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