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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY NEW After Law LAURENT DE SUTTER Vrije Universiteit Brussel Translated by Barnaby Norman Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might think. In After Law, Laurent de Sutter takes us on a journey to uncover the sources of our fascination with law. 216 x 138mm • 270 pages • UK October 2020, US December 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4236-9 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4237-6 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available See also Narcocapitalism, p. 34. The End A Conversation ALAIN BADIOU & GIOVANBATTISTA TUSA Translated by Robin Mackay ‘Part interview, part dialogue, part reflection and part essay, The End is at once an engaging and provocative read.’ Claire Colebrook, Penn State University 190 x 124mm • 160 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3626-9 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3627-6 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available Trump ALAIN BADIOU Translated by Joseph Litvak ‘What is our task today? Reading Trump as the symptom of global capitalism’s political crisis, Badiou compellingly argues that our task is to bring into existence a strategic choice between capitalism and communism.’ Jodi Dean, author of Crowds and Party 203 x 127mm • 80 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3607-8 • £40.00 / $64.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3608-5 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available Reading Marx SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, FRANK RUDA & AGON HAMZA Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana; University of Dundee; ISSH, Tirana ‘Reading Marx ... presents revelations on every page that point toward how we might think a philosophical Marxism.’ Todd McGowan, University of Vermont 216 x 138mm • 176 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-2140-1 • £45.00 / $59.95 / €55.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2141-8 • £14.99 / $19.95 / €18.90 ebook available WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 30 NEW Migrants and Militants ALAIN BADIOU Translated by Joseph Litvak ‘New names change the world. Badiou’s powerful meditation on the nomadic proletarian exposes the limits of the ethos of hospitality toward those migrate from their world to our world. Inspired by workers’ poetry, the universality Badiou offers is the necessity of together organizing a communist politics for one world. An indispensable guide for politics on a warming planet.’ Jodi Dean, author of Comrade The question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word ‘migrant’ really mean today and how should we respond to those who are labelled ‘migrants’? 190 x 124mm • 64 pages • UK March 2020, US May 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4245-1 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4246-8 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available NEW For a Politics of the Common Good ALAIN BADIOU & PETER ENGELMANN ENS and the European Graduate School; Passagen Verlag Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘Badiou’s powerful exposition of the unfinished project of revolutionary Marxism makes a compelling case for the universality of communist politics. Elaborated with respect to pressing contemporary problems, his vision for a communist politics for us is inspiring, necessary, and – best of all – possible.’ Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 190 x 124mm • 144 pages • UK September 2019, US November 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3504-0 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3505-7 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame of The Communist Manifesto. But is it still relevant? Slavoj Žižek argues that even if Marx’s analysis cannot be applied to global capitalism without revision, the fundamental problem he identified, that of the commons in all its dimensions, remains as relevant as ever. 203 x 127mm • 64 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3610-8 • £40.00 / $64.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3611-5 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available See backlist for more Badiou and Žižek titles.
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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY NEW What is to Be Done? LOUIS ALTHUSSER École normale supérieure Translated by G. M. Goshgarian What is to be done? This was the question asked by Lenin in 1901 when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. Seventy-seven years later, Louis Althusser asked the same question. Lively, brilliant and engaged, this short text is wholly oriented towards one objective: to organize the working class struggle. Althusser also provides a sharp critique of Antonio Gramsci’s writings and of Eurocommunism. 216 x 138mm • 116 pages • UK September 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3860-7 • £40.00 / $49.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3861-4 • £12.99 / $16.95 /€€15.90 ebook available NEW History and Imperialism Writings, 1963-1986 LOUIS ALTHUSSER Translated by G. M. Goshgarian History and Imperialism brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963 discussion of literary history. These writings are concerned with the place of history in Marxist theory. 216 x 138mm • 224 pages • UK December 2019, US February 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3722-8 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3723-5 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available The Age of Disruption Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism BERNARD STIEGLER Centre Pompidou Translated by Daniel Ross ‘A summation of his thinking to date – from originary technicity to the Anthropocene – this is also Stiegler’s most personal philosophical work so far. Discussing his intellectual apprenticeship while in prison, and his practice of thinking and writing as a form of self-medication against depression and madness, he issues a passionate call to tend the wounds of contemporary existence, whether psychological, economic or ecological, through the collective transformation of the wilful destruction indulged in by our digital superpowers into a future worth wanting to live for.’ Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge In this book, Bernard Stiegler argues that our era is one of fundamental disruption, caused by the complete dominance of digital information and automation over our lives. We must find a new way of thinking and being by forging circuits of meaning outside of the established algorithmic routes, thus restoring aspiration to the individual. 229 x 152mm • 432 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-2926-1 • £60.00 / $74.95 / €73.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2927-8 • £24.99 / $32.95 / €30.90 ebook available See backlist for more Stiegler titles. NEW The Edges of Fiction JACQUES RANCIÈRE University of Paris-St. Denis Translated by Steve Corcoran ‘A probing and scintillating new book on the meaning, rationality and politics of literary fiction. Rancière illuminates the surprising connection between the logic of tragedy, in which ignorance leads to misfortune, and explanation in the modern social sciences. He interrogates how that paradigm slowly unwinds into the democratizing tumult of modernism. An invaluable addition to our understanding of a topic Rancière has made his own: the aesthetic conditions of political reason.’ J.M. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research In this book, Jacques Rancière surveys how conventional fictional rationality, the causal linkage between events, has been adopted in many fields. Modern literature, in contrast, depicts everyday life. Rancière shows how it operates at the edges where it is confronted with possible revocation, aiming to help us better understand our shared world. 216 x 138mm • 192 pages • UK October 2019, US November 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3044-1 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3045-8 • £15.99 / $19.95 / €19.90 ebook available Politics and Aesthetics JACQUES RANCIÈRE & PETER ENGELMANN University of Paris-St. Denis; Passagen Verlag Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘More than a lucid introduction to Rancière’s intellectual history and key concepts, this book’s provocative conversations explore our joint capability for new forms of political expression lying beyond the stultifying logic of the global ruling class.’ Paul Michael Garrett, NUI Galway 190 x 124mm • 128 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3501-9 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3502-6 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available Democracy and Community JEAN-LUC NANCY & PETER ENGELMANN European Graduate School; Passagen Verlag Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘That the common is not a blanket under which we huddle with others for protection, but a blank that eludes us is the political lesson Nancy has sought to impart. This moving interview exposes the restless vigilance required to safeguard the negativity of this profound insight against its collapse into utopian fantasy.’ Joan Copjec, Brown University 190 x 124mm • 144 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3534-7 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3535-4 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 31

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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

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After Law LAURENT DE SUTTER Vrije Universiteit Brussel Translated by Barnaby Norman Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might think. In After Law, Laurent de Sutter takes us on a journey to uncover the sources of our fascination with law. 216 x 138mm • 270 pages • UK October 2020, US December 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4236-9 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4237-6 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available See also Narcocapitalism, p. 34.

The End A Conversation ALAIN BADIOU & GIOVANBATTISTA TUSA Translated by Robin Mackay ‘Part interview, part dialogue, part reflection and part essay, The End is at once an engaging and provocative read.’ Claire Colebrook, Penn State University 190 x 124mm • 160 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3626-9 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3627-6 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

Trump ALAIN BADIOU Translated by Joseph Litvak ‘What is our task today? Reading Trump as the symptom of global capitalism’s political crisis, Badiou compellingly argues that our task is to bring into existence a strategic choice between capitalism and communism.’ Jodi Dean, author of Crowds and Party 203 x 127mm • 80 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3607-8 • £40.00 / $64.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3608-5 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

Reading Marx SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, FRANK RUDA & AGON HAMZA Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana; University of Dundee; ISSH, Tirana ‘Reading Marx ... presents revelations on every page that point toward how we might think a philosophical Marxism.’ Todd McGowan, University of Vermont 216 x 138mm • 176 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-2140-1 • £45.00 / $59.95 / €55.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2141-8 • £14.99 / $19.95 / €18.90 ebook available

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Migrants and Militants ALAIN BADIOU Translated by Joseph Litvak ‘New names change the world. Badiou’s powerful meditation on the nomadic proletarian exposes the limits of the ethos of hospitality toward those migrate from their world to our world. Inspired by workers’ poetry, the universality Badiou offers is the necessity of together organizing a communist politics for one world. An indispensable guide for politics on a warming planet.’ Jodi Dean, author of Comrade The question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word ‘migrant’ really mean today and how should we respond to those who are labelled ‘migrants’? 190 x 124mm • 64 pages • UK March 2020, US May 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4245-1 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4246-8 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

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For a Politics of the Common Good ALAIN BADIOU & PETER ENGELMANN ENS and the European Graduate School; Passagen Verlag Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘Badiou’s powerful exposition of the unfinished project of revolutionary Marxism makes a compelling case for the universality of communist politics. Elaborated with respect to pressing contemporary problems, his vision for a communist politics for us is inspiring, necessary, and – best of all – possible.’ Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 190 x 124mm • 144 pages • UK September 2019, US November 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3504-0 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3505-7 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame of The Communist Manifesto. But is it still relevant? Slavoj Žižek argues that even if Marx’s analysis cannot be applied to global capitalism without revision, the fundamental problem he identified, that of the commons in all its dimensions, remains as relevant as ever. 203 x 127mm • 64 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3610-8 • £40.00 / $64.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3611-5 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

See backlist for more Badiou and Žižek titles.

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