Synopses & Reviews
This sixth batch features some of the best authors in the Verso canon, including Theodor Adorno, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Henri Lefebvre. It also includes long out of print titles by authors experiencing a renaissance such as Lucien Goldmann and Maurice Godelier. These are beautifully designed books, emulating the look of the previous batch but revitalized. As well as being landmarks in philosophy and cultural theory that had a profound effect on thought when they were published, they are also classics that continue to stimulate contemporary readers.
Synopsis
The 6th set of the renowned philosophy series: beautiful covers, bargain price, classic theory.
About the Author
Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner; Aesthetic Theory; Negative Dialectics; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto.Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books included The Long Twentieth Century and Adam Smith in Beijing, and his work appeared in many publications, including New Left Review.