Social Theory

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was an extraordinary figure on the Polish political scene at the turn of the 20th century. A Marxist and patriot, academic a...

At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slav...

In this collection of illuminating essays, Jack Lohman, chief executive officer of the Royal British Columbia Museum, shares his views on the role ...

Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent worl...

The story were telling is simple: as humans have globalized, family values have not scaled well. Not so many lifetimes ago, we lived in kin tribes ...

What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, th...

Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their econo...

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains ...

The early Marx called for the realization of philosophy through revolution. Revolution thus becomes a critical philosophical concept for Marxism, a...

A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink todays culture wars. Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Wh...

Latinx (pronounced 'La-teen-ex) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, 17 percent of the country....

Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and illicit, the legal an...

Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and illicit, the legal an...

A lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics-and each other....

A powerful case for the persistent questioning and existential interruption that accompanies that pursuit of [happiness and revolution], and fuels ...

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a...

In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspi...

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed...

The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's classic Hegemony and Socialist Str...

Civil Society has become a major power in the world. The stunning defeat of the controversial and secretive Multilateral Agreement on Investments, ...

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken...

Jigsaw puzzles' notorious complexity and mega-multiple, amorphously-shaped pieces provide an appropriate metaphor for the navigating and maneuverin...

The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Mouffe's classic Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, t...

The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endles...

Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years worki...

Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable t...

Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable t...

The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As t...

Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it o...