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A collection of essays by the leading French thinker

Acclaimed French philosopher on metaphysics and politics

The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.

The sociologist and philosopher analyses the dawning of modernity.

Analysis of the role of ideology in political movements.

A major philosophical intervention into contemporary cultural theory that challenges the terms of its understanding of time and history.

Major French thinkers shows how the discourse of economics warps thought.

Presents a radical assessment of Hegel. This title reveals the problems and limitations of sociological method.

Classic introduction to Kant's philosophy.

Discusses Derrida's political work and Derrida responds.

A ride through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.

A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism, this foundational text shows how the roles women adopt within the capitalist economy have shaped ideas about family and sexuality. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points social, sexual, cultural and economic Sheila Rowbotham identifies the conditions under which it developed, and how the formation of a new ';way of seeing' for women can lead to collective solidarity.

Three renowned contemporary theorists discuss their different perspectives for politics and thought.

Classic writings on the Panopticon from the renowned English philosopher

A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.

A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Clement contrasts the original, inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of their uninspired followersthe weary sons of Freud.The analyst's once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left, to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking cure might look like.

Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher's work in 1953. Including his famed essay ';Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses', The Spectre of Hegel gives a unique insight into Althusser's engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.