[D-G] NEW TITLES: RADICAL THINKERS SET 4

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NEW TITLES: SET 4 IN THE RADICAL THINKERS SERIES:

Theodor Adorno: IN SEARCH OF WAGNER
Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar: READING CAPITAL
Jean Baudrillard: THE TRANSPARENCY OF EVIL
Walter Benjamin: THE ORIGIN OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA
Simon Critchley: ETHICS-POLITICS-SUBJECTIVITY
Guy Debord: PANEGYRIC
Terry Eagleton: WALTER BENJAMIN
Fredric Jameson: THE CULTURAL TURN
Georg Lukács: LENIN
Chantal Mouffe: THE DEMOCRATIC PARADOX
Gillian Rose: HEGEL CONTRA SOCIOLOGY
Paul Virilio: WAR AND CINEMA

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Published 15th July 2009

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Verso continues the highly popular Radical Thinkers project with Set 4, bringing together the seminal texts of the world’s leading intellectuals.

These beautifully produced books, with a stunning new design, present a history of progressive theory from the classic works of Adorno, Benjamin and Lukács through the famous studies of Althusser and Debord, to their modern successors.

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Praise for RADICAL THINKERS:

“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 to expose the mechanisms by which culture and knowledge are manufactured, managed and controlled.”
Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman

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Highlights from the set include:
·         The reissuing of both Terry Eagleton’s landmark study of Walter
Benjamin, and Benjamin’s own study of German Tragedy.
·         Adorno’s study of Wagner, Europe’s most controversial composer, written during his period in exile from the Third Reich, and published with a foreword by Slavoj Žižek.

 *   Simon Critchley confronts many key figures in Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, including Derrida, Levinas and Lacan.


 *   Gillian Rose’s long unavailable work Hegel Contra Sociology.


 *   Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar’s groundbreaking study of Marx, Reading Capital.


 *   Guy Debord’s fascinating autobiography.

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Full details for Radical Thinkers Set 4:



In Search of Wagner, ADORNO 978 1 84467 344 5

Reading Capital, ALTHUSSER AND BALIBAR 978 1 84467 347 6

The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, BAUDRILLAR 978 1 84467 345 2

The Origin of German Tragic Drama, BENJAMIN 978 1 84467 3483

Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, CRITCHLEY 978 1 84467 351 3

Panegyric, DEBORD 978 1 84467 353 7

Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, EAGLETON 978 1 84467 350 6

The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, JAMESON 978 1 84467 349 0

Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, LUKÁCS 978 1 84467 352 0

The Democratic Paradox, MOUFFE 978 1 84467 355 1

Hegel Contra Sociology, ROSE 978 1 84467 354 4

War and Cinema: The Logics of Perception, VIRILIO 978 1 84467 346 9

Radical Thinkers Set 4 (full set) 978 1 84467 344 5


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