Persons are not separate objects in space. They are centres of orientation to the world. These different centres and their worlds are not islands, but the nature of their reciprocal influence and ...

Kracauer subtitled the book, ‘From the Newest Germany’—a phrase which, with laconic brevity, formulated the viewpoint, method and claim of his investigation. What his study aims to be is neither a ...

Drawing on dense archival research as well as interviews with Bulgarian computer programmers, engineers and boosters, the ...

On South Korea.

But one thing is already certain at this early stage: though the balance of forces has shifted in Erdoğan’s favour for the ...

Yugoslav historian Andrej Grubačić rejects the simple use of the term ‘balkanization’ to describe this process, since it ...

For such iconoclasts, true justice is presumed to lie outside the practice of established law and procedure. Radical ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

A commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble. Originally published as NLR I/229, this is now a Verso book: For years, the ...

Both the strengths of the New Left’s critique of domination and its underlying weaknesses reveal themselves, with particular sharpness and clarity, in the attraction of the New Left to an intellectual ...

Few today can doubt the centrality of the division in American society that goes by the name of race. The police violence to which black people in the us are routinely subjected has become more widely ...

In times like these, the very appearance of an essay like Oliver Eagleton’s offers a glimmer of hope.footnote 1 His critique of my work is both historically conscious and generous towards the often ...