Bloomsbury Revelations

The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has... Lire la suite

A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand... Lire la suite

A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal... Lire la suite

Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved... Lire la suite

This translation originally published: Oxford: Berg, 2005.

The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community organizations throughout the US and the world. Roots for Radicals remains his definitive reflection on... Lire la suite

One of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the 20th century presents and responds to Karl Marx's 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'.

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of... Lire la suite

Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative,... Lire la suite

First published in Great Britain, 2006, with subtitle: The history and moral legacy of the WWII bombing of civilians in Germany and Japan.

A new translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, with a new preface by Badiou himself, written exclusively for this translation.

'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr
Martin Buber (1897-19) was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in... Lire la suite

Previous edition: New York; London: Pinter, 1994. Bloomsbury revelations edition 2015 with foreword by Ronen Palan.

Evaluates the complex historiography if the Third Reich.

First published in 1974, Libidinal Economy is a major work of twentieth century continental philosophy. In it, Lyotard develops the idea of economies driven by libidinal 'energies' or 'intensities' which he claims flow through all structures, such... Lire la suite