Élisabeth is certainly distinguished by extensive descriptions of ‘material facts’: settings, objects, gestures. When Claire ...

Most analysts had expected the Democratic Centre, built on the cult of personality surrounding former president Álvaro Uribe ...

Mario del Pero on Anders Stephanson, American Imperatives. Critical reflections on the Cold War as a strategy of US ...

Ilya Budraitskis on Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause. Compelling account of the friendship networks of ...

Julian Stallabrass on Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine. An American artist documents and explores the arrival of the ...

New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, ...

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...

In a dizzying sequence, a student heroine is whirled back through the years to awaken at the scene of her own funeral in the 1980s. As the assembled mourners go through their formal bows, she stirs on ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized in ...

In his wonderful short text ‘Notes of a Publicist’—written in February 1922 when the Bolsheviks, after winning the Civil War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a ...