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Agonistics
Thinking The World Politically
Written by Chantal Mouffe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $24.95
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?
Developing her groundbreaking political philosophy of agonistics – the search for a radical and plural democracy – Chantal Mouffe examines international relations, strategies for radical politics... Read more >
Thinking The World Politically
Written by Chantal Mouffe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $24.95
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?
Developing her groundbreaking political philosophy of agonistics – the search for a radical and plural democracy – Chantal Mouffe examines international relations, strategies for radical politics... Read more >
Agonistics
Thinking The World Politically
Written by Chantal Mouffe
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $24.95
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?
Developing her groundbreaking political philosophy of agonistics – the search for a radical and plural democracy – Chantal Mouffe examines international relations, strategies for radical politics... Read more >
Thinking The World Politically
Written by Chantal Mouffe
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $24.95
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?
Developing her groundbreaking political philosophy of agonistics – the search for a radical and plural democracy – Chantal Mouffe examines international relations, strategies for radical politics... Read more >
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Left Hemisphere
Mapping Contemporary Theory
Written by Razmig Keucheyan
Translated by Gregory Elliott
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $29.95
As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and... Read more >
Mapping Contemporary Theory
Written by Razmig Keucheyan
Translated by Gregory Elliott
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $29.95
As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and... Read more >
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Left Hemisphere
Mapping Contemporary Theory
Written by Razmig Keucheyan
Translated by Gregory Elliott
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $29.95
As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and... Read more >
Mapping Contemporary Theory
Written by Razmig Keucheyan
Translated by Gregory Elliott
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $29.95
As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and... Read more >
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Notes On Democracy
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $9.99
[Democracy] is, perhaps, the most charming form of government ever devised by man... It is based on propositions that are palpably not true and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true...
H.L. Mencken, America's greatest... Read more >
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $9.99
[Democracy] is, perhaps, the most charming form of government ever devised by man... It is based on propositions that are palpably not true and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true...
H.L. Mencken, America's greatest... Read more >
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Empowering Public Wisdom
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Written by Tom Atlee
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.95
Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the... Read more >
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Written by Tom Atlee
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.95
Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the... Read more >
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Empowering Public Wisdom
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Written by Tom Atlee
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $10.95
Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the... Read more >
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Written by Tom Atlee
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $10.95
Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the... Read more >
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The Prince
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Foreword by Michael Ennis
Format: eBook, 75 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $1.99
Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.
Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was... Read more >
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Foreword by Michael Ennis
Format: eBook, 75 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $1.99
Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.
Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was... Read more >
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The Path to Hope
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $8.00
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $8.00
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy...
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The Path to Hope
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $5.99
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy... Read more >
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $5.99
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy... Read more >
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The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Introduction by Harry Rubenstein and Barbara Clark Smith
Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was Thomas Jefferson's effort to extract what he considered the pertinent doctrine of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added... Read more >
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Introduction by Harry Rubenstein and Barbara Clark Smith
Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was Thomas Jefferson's effort to extract what he considered the pertinent doctrine of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added... Read more >
Bakunin
The Creative Passion-A Biography
Written by Mark Leier
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The spellbinding story of both the man and the theory, Bakunin chronicles one of the most notorious radicals in history: Mikhail Bakunin, the founder of anarchism, here revealed as a practical moral philosophy rooted in a critique of wealth and power.
Mark Leier corrects many of the popular misconceptions about Bakunin and... Read more >
The Creative Passion-A Biography
Written by Mark Leier
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The spellbinding story of both the man and the theory, Bakunin chronicles one of the most notorious radicals in history: Mikhail Bakunin, the founder of anarchism, here revealed as a practical moral philosophy rooted in a critique of wealth and power.
Mark Leier corrects many of the popular misconceptions about Bakunin and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Goodbye Mr. Socialism
Written by Antonio Negri
Contribution by Raf Valvola Scelsi
Translated by Peter Thomas
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
Goodbye Mr. Socialism offers a gripping encounter with one of today’s leading leftists, presenting his most up-to-date analysis of global events and insight into the prospects for the Left in an age of neoliberalism. In his most accessible work yet, philosopher Antonio Negri discusses the state of the global Left since... Read more >
Written by Antonio Negri
Contribution by Raf Valvola Scelsi
Translated by Peter Thomas
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
Goodbye Mr. Socialism offers a gripping encounter with one of today’s leading leftists, presenting his most up-to-date analysis of global events and insight into the prospects for the Left in an age of neoliberalism. In his most accessible work yet, philosopher Antonio Negri discusses the state of the global Left since... Read more >
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Government in the Future
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural... Read more >
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural... Read more >
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Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra
Escritos Selectos
Written by Subcomandante Marcos and Juana Ponce De Leon
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.00
En este libro fundamental, Seven Stories Press presenta una poderosa colección de escritos literarios, filosóficos y políticos del enigmático vocero de los zapatistas, SubComandante Marcos. Con la Introducción del ganador del Premio Nobel, José Saramago, e ilustrado con bellas fotos en blanco y negro, Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra cristaliza, la... Read more >
Escritos Selectos
Written by Subcomandante Marcos and Juana Ponce De Leon
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.00
En este libro fundamental, Seven Stories Press presenta una poderosa colección de escritos literarios, filosóficos y políticos del enigmático vocero de los zapatistas, SubComandante Marcos. Con la Introducción del ganador del Premio Nobel, José Saramago, e ilustrado con bellas fotos en blanco y negro, Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra cristaliza, la... Read more >
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Our Word is Our Weapon
Selected Writings
Written by Subcomandante Marcos
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Edited by Juana Ponce De Leon
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel... Read more >
Selected Writings
Written by Subcomandante Marcos
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Edited by Juana Ponce De Leon
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel... Read more >
Right & Wrong & Palestine
and Palestine, 9-11, Iraq, 7-7. . .
Written by Ted Honderich
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Philosopher Ted Honderich insightfully relates four shattering current events in this articulate, well-reasoned moral and political analysis. Exploring the war in Iraq, the controversy in Palestine, and the tragic events of 9-11 and London’s 7-7, Honderich elucidates the great questions of right and wrong in a conflict-ridden era. Read more >
and Palestine, 9-11, Iraq, 7-7. . .
Written by Ted Honderich
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Philosopher Ted Honderich insightfully relates four shattering current events in this articulate, well-reasoned moral and political analysis. Exploring the war in Iraq, the controversy in Palestine, and the tragic events of 9-11 and London’s 7-7, Honderich elucidates the great questions of right and wrong in a conflict-ridden era. Read more >
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Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare
Written by Roger T. Ames
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2010
Price: $16.99
The most widely read military classic in human history, newly translated and revised in accordance with newly discovered materials of unprecedented historical significance. Fluid, crisp and rigorously faithful to the original, this new text is destined to stand as the definitive version of this cornerstone work of Classical Chinese. Of compelling... Read more >
Written by Roger T. Ames
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2010
Price: $16.99
The most widely read military classic in human history, newly translated and revised in accordance with newly discovered materials of unprecedented historical significance. Fluid, crisp and rigorously faithful to the original, this new text is destined to stand as the definitive version of this cornerstone work of Classical Chinese. Of compelling... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The Future of Liberalism
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $16.00
A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.
The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of... Read more >
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $16.00
A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.
The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of... Read more >
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eBook.
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Bakunin
The Creative Passion#A Biography
Written by Mark Leier
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $17.95
The spellbinding story of both the man and the theory, Bakunin chronicles one of the most notorious radicals in history: Mikhail Bakunin, the founder of anarchism, here revealed as a practical moral philosophy rooted in a critique of wealth and power.
Mark Leier corrects many of the popular misconceptions about Bakunin and... Read more >
The Creative Passion#A Biography
Written by Mark Leier
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $17.95
The spellbinding story of both the man and the theory, Bakunin chronicles one of the most notorious radicals in history: Mikhail Bakunin, the founder of anarchism, here revealed as a practical moral philosophy rooted in a critique of wealth and power.
Mark Leier corrects many of the popular misconceptions about Bakunin and... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $15.99
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $15.99
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Reviving the Left
The Need to Restore Liberal Values in America
Written by Dwight Furrow
Format: Hardcover, 253 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $24.99
In this fresh assessment of the liberal perspective on politics, philosopher Dwight Furrow explains how liberalism lost its moral credentials in the face of challenges from conservatives. He articulates a new way of understanding the moral foundations of liberalism that will restore its political fortunes along with America’s shattered moral authority... Read more >
The Need to Restore Liberal Values in America
Written by Dwight Furrow
Format: Hardcover, 253 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $24.99
In this fresh assessment of the liberal perspective on politics, philosopher Dwight Furrow explains how liberalism lost its moral credentials in the face of challenges from conservatives. He articulates a new way of understanding the moral foundations of liberalism that will restore its political fortunes along with America’s shattered moral authority... Read more >
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The Future of Liberalism
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $13.99
A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.
The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of... Read more >
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $13.99
A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.
The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of... Read more >
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The Promise of Politics
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.99
After the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, Hannah Arendt undertook an investigation of Marxism, a subject that she had deliberately left out of her earlier work. Her inquiry into Marx’s philosophy led her to a critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins... Read more >
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.99
After the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, Hannah Arendt undertook an investigation of Marxism, a subject that she had deliberately left out of her earlier work. Her inquiry into Marx’s philosophy led her to a critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Goodbye Mr. Socialism
Written by Antonio Negri
Contribution by Raf Valvola Scelsi
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.95
Goodbye Mr. Socialism offers a gripping encounter with one of today’s leading leftists, presenting his most up-to-date analysis of global events and insight into the prospects for the Left in an age of neoliberalism. In his most accessible work yet, philosopher Antonio Negri discusses the state of the global Left since... Read more >
Written by Antonio Negri
Contribution by Raf Valvola Scelsi
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.95
Goodbye Mr. Socialism offers a gripping encounter with one of today’s leading leftists, presenting his most up-to-date analysis of global events and insight into the prospects for the Left in an age of neoliberalism. In his most accessible work yet, philosopher Antonio Negri discusses the state of the global Left since... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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