Radical Thinkers is a series of books released through Verso Books. The series was first released in October 2005. The series shifted towards themes in set 9 and began to release more frequently with fewer titles in each set. In 2010, Minima Moralia, For Marx, Aesthetics and Politics, and Culture and Materialism were reprinted in hardback under the Radical Thinkers Classics designation as part of Verso's 40th anniversary celebration.
Radical Thinkers Set | Title | Author | Translator(s) | Original Publication Date | Pages | ISBN |
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Set 1 (January 2006) | Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life | Theodor Adorno | E. F. N. Jephcott | 1951 | 256 | 978-1844670512 |
For Marx | Louis Althusser | Ben Brewster | 1969 | 259 | 978-1844670529 | |
The System of Objects | Jean Baudrillard | James Benedict | 1968 | 224 | 978-1844670536 | |
Liberalism and Democracy | Norberto Bobbio | Martin Ryle and Kate Soper | 1985 | 94 | 978-1844670628 | |
The Politics of Friendship | Jacques Derrida | George Collins | 1994 | 312 | 978-1844670543 | |
The Function of Criticism | Terry Eagleton | N/A | 1984 | 136 | 978-1844670550 | |
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms | Franco Moretti | Susan Fischer, David Forgacs, and Davis Miller | 1983 | 273 | 978-1844670567 | |
The Return of the Political | Chantal Mouffe | N/A | 1993 | 240 | 9781844670574 | |
Sexuality in the Field of Vision | Jacqueline Rose | N/A | 1986 | 270 | 978-1844670581 | |
The Information Bomb | Paul Virilio | Chris Turner | 2000 | 146 | 978-1844670598 | |
Culture and Materialism | Raymond Williams | N/A | 1980 | 288 | 978-1844670604 | |
The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality | Slavoj Žižek | N/A | 1994 | 228 | 978-1844670611 | |
Set 2 (January 2007) | Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience | Giorgio Agamben | Liz Heron | 1978 | 176 | 978-1844675715 |
Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx | Louis Althusser | Ben Brewster | 1972 | 192 | 978-1844675722 | |
Fragments | Jean Baudrillard | Emily Agar | 1997 | 148 | 978-1844675739 | |
Logics of Disintegration | Peter Dews | N/A | 1987 | 331 | 978-1844675746 | |
Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic | Fredric Jameson | N/A | 1990 | 270 | 978-1844675753 | |
Emancipation(s) | Ernesto Laclau | N/A | 1996 | 124 | 978-1844675760 | |
Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project | Antonio Negri | Matteo Mandarini and Alberto Toscano | 2007 | 344 | 978-1844675821 | |
On the Shores of Politics | Jacques Rancière | Liz Heron | 1998 | 107 | 978-1844675777 | |
Strategy of Deception | Paul Virilio | N/A | 1999 | 82 | 978-1844675784 | |
Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists | Raymond Williams | N/A | 1989 | 220 | 978-1844675807 | |
The Indivisible Remainder | Slavoj Žižek | N/A | 1996 | 254 | 978-1844675814 | |
Set 3 (January 2008) | In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures | Aijaz Ahmad | N/A | 1992 | 358 | 978-1844672134 |
The Perfect Crime | Jean Baudrillard | Chris Turner | 1995 | 156 | 978-1859840443 | |
A Realist Theory of Science | Roy Bhaskar | N/A | 1975 | 262 | 978-1844672042 | |
A Study on Authority | Herbert Marcuse | Joris De Bres | 2008 | 112 | 978-1844672097 | |
Spinoza and Politics | Etienne Balibar and Warren Montag | Peter Snowdon | 1985 | 160 | 978-1844672059 | |
The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune | Kristin Ross | N/A | 1989 | 190 | 978-1844672066 | |
Between Existentialism and Marxism | Jean-Paul Sartre | John Matthews | 1960 | 302 | 978-1844672073 | |
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx | Michael Sprinker (editor) | N/A | 1999 | 278 | 978-1844672110 | |
What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? | Göran Therborn | N/A | 1978 | 290 | 978-1844672103 | |
Open Sky | Paul Virilio | Julie Rose | 1995 | 162 | 978-1844672080 | |
For They Know Not What They Do | Slavoj Žižek | N/A | 1991 | 288 | 978-1844672127 |