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Jacobin eBook Series

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  • Utopia or Bust

    A Guide to the Present Crisis

    by Benjamin Kunkel ...
    Series series Jacobin
    After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexploredoutside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust leads readers – whether politically committed or simply curious – through the most ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD

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  • Fortunes of Feminism

    From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

    by Nancy Fraser ...
    Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism’s ... Read more

    $19.07 CAD

  • Philosophies of Crime Fiction

    by Josef Hoffmann ...
    Translated by Carolyn Kelly, Nadia Majid, Johanna da Rocha Abreu ...
    Philosophies of Crime Fiction provides a considered analysis of the philosophical ideas to be found in crime literature - both hidden and explicit. Josef Hoffmann ranges expertly across influences and inspirations in crime writing with a stellar cast including Conan Doyle, G K Chesterton, Dashiell Hammett, Albert Camus, Borges, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Ted Lewis.Hoffmann examines why ... Read more

    $7.28 CAD

  • A Mad Trapper's Examination of Reader Response and Reception Theory

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    In this project I ground my reading of reader-oriented criticism in a particular text, Rudy Wiebe's The Mad Trapper. Positioning this novel as representative of the contradictory characteristics of all texts--"always already" open to multiple interpretations--I use these multiple readings both to examine and undermine The Mad Trapper and Reader Response/Reception theory. Situating and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy for Non-Philosophers

    by Louis Althusser ...
    Translated by G. M. Goshgarian ...
    In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser's project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Melancholy Science

    An Introduction To The Thought Of Theodor W. Adorno

    by Gillian Rose ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    The Melancholy Science is the first and foundational work from the celebrated philosopher Gillian Rose and a classic critique of critical theory. ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Commercium

    Critical Theory From a Cosmopolitan Point of View

    by Nancy Fraser, Brian Milstein ...
    Series series Reinventing Critical Theory
    Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a wealth of discussion and controversy about the idea of a ‘postnational’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ politics. But while there are many normative theories of cosmopolitanism, as well as some cosmopolitan theories of globalization, there has been little attempt to grapple systematically with fundamental questions of structure and action from a ‘cosmopolitan ... Read more

    $57.05 CAD

  • Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance

    New Materialisms

    Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings cultural studies’ perspectives to bear on Arts practices. Each contribution synthesizes creative approaches to philosophy and new materialist understanding of practice to show how human-nonhuman interaction at the core of Arts practice is a critical post human pedagogy.Across fine art, dance, gallery education, film and philosophy, the book contends ... Read more

    $57.05 CAD

  • Elements of a Critical Theory of Justice

    by Gustavo Pereira ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The capacity to take part in dialogues and justify one's positions constitutes the normative core of critical social justice. Ensuring this capacity to every citizen is the main objective of justice, which requires transforming social structures and relations as well as counteracting the effects of capitalist dynamics. ... Read more

    $58.04 CAD

  • Media After Kittler

    Edited by Eleni Ikoniadou, Scott Wilson ...
    Series series Media Philosophy
    Is it possible to incite a turn towards Media Philosophy, a field that accounts for the autonomy of media, for machine agency and for the new modalities of thought and subjectivity that these enable, rather than dwelling on representations, audiences and extensions of the self?In the wake of the field-defining work done by Friedrich Kittler, this important collection of essays takes a ... Read more

    $55.07 CAD

  • The Care of Life

    Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics

    Edited by Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco, Marjorie Gracieuse ...
    This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define and assess the specific meaning of life itself. It is only by doing so that we can understand why life has become an all-encompassing problem, why all questions, especially ethical and political, have ... Read more

    $55.07 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932)

    A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

    by Oswald Spengler ...
    First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age — the culture of the machine age — which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, ... Read more

    $64.05 CAD