A definitive list of
books that you need to read: 50% off for the month of September.
03 September 2018
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Reading List
The start of the academic year
has got us thinking about the books that transformed our
thinking; classics from across our publishing that we think should be on
everyone's bookshelves.
Whether you are just starting
out, or your student days are far behind you, here is a definitive list of
books that you need to read: all 50% off for the month of
September.
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256 pages / September 2016 /
9781784786755
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“One of the greatest …
deserves still to be central to our thinking about the world.”
– T. J. Clark, London
Review of Books
The full magnitude of Benedict
Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined
Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of
nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of
Western thought. Cited more often than any other single English-language work
in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty
translations.
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256 pages / January 2006 /
9781844670512
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“The best thoughts of a noble
and invigorating mind.”
– Observer
"A volume of Adorno is
equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature."—Susan Sontag
A reflection on everyday
existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.
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224 pages / May 2017 /
9781786630681
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“The Origin of Capitalism was
one of those ‘Aha!’ moments. Wood was an extraordinarily rigorous and
imaginative thinker, someone who breathed life into Marxist political theory
and made it speak—not to just to me but to many others—at multiple levels:
historical, theoretical, political.”
– Corey Robin, Jacobin
How did the dynamic economic
system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?
In The Origin of
Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a
clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the
birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state.
by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin,
et al.
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220 pages / January 2007 /
9781844675708
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“This is vital reading for
anyone concerned with the relationship between art and socialism.”
– John Fowles
No other country and no other
period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that
which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics
and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over
literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do
not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between
thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.
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320 pages / February 2016 /
9781784782443
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“Reading a Wood essay is a
shock to the system, demanding the reader take a position, often leaving you
invigorated and slightly bruised in the process.”
– Michael Watson, Red
Pepper
Historian and political
thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation,
“difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism,
let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the
critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and
its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify
the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political
power. She goes on to explore the concept of democracy in both the ancient and
modern world, examining its relation to capitalism, and raising questions about
how democracy might go beyond the limits imposed on it.
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912 pages / May 2014 /
9781781683170
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“One of the great French
intellectual activists of the twentieth century.”
– David Harvey
The three-volume text by Henri
Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern
capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers
and is now available for the first time in one complete volume. Written at the
birth of post-war consumerism, Critique was an inspiration for the
1968 student revolution in France. It is a founding text of cultural studies
and a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography,
sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. Lefebvre takes as his
starting point and guide the "trivial" details of quotidian
experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by
inauthenticity, yet remaining the only source of resistance and change. This is
an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and
optimism.
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304 pages / November 2014 /
9781781685594
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“A dizzying menagerie of
anti-capitalist thought.”
– PopMatters
This book–one of our Back to
University bestsellers–offers the first global cartography of the expanding
intellectual field of critical contemporary thought. A panoramic account of the
world’s leading writers and thinkers; more than thirty authors and intellectual
currents of every continent are presented in a clear and succinct manner. A
history of critical thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is also
provided, helping situate current thinkers in a broader historical and
sociological perspective.
Edited by Angela Y. Davis
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288 pages / November 2016 /
9781784787691
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“Angela Davis taught me that I
did not have to tolerate the racism I was suffering in the playground, she told
me that I was not alone … it was in this book that I first came across the word
‘solidarity.’”
– Benjamin Zephaniah
One of America’s most historic
political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter
from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals
such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica
Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis’s incarceration and the
struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough
analysis of the prison system of the United State.
With race and the police once
more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black
radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power.
by Nancy Fraser
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256 pages / April 2013 /
9781844679843
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“Nancy Fraser is among the
very few thinkers in the tradition of critical theory who are capable of
redeeming its legacy in the twenty-first century.”
– Axel Honneth
Nancy Fraser’s
classic work traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and
anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and
action. Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to
address the global economic crisis. Feminism can be a force working in concert
with other egalitarian movements in the struggle to bring the economy under
democratic control, while building on the visionary potential of the earlier
waves of women’s liberation. This powerful new account is set to become a
landmark of feminist thought.
by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
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“A classic of
twentieth-century thought.”
– Times Literary
Supplement
Theodor Adorno and Max
Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is
their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated
works of modern social philosophy and continues to impress in its wide-ranging
ambition.
A classic of twentieth-century
thought, charting how society devours itself through the very rationality that
was meant to set it free.
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