VERSO
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VERSO is a self-proclaimed "radical" publisher of English-language books, with global sales approaching $3 million per year and over 350 titles in print.[1] "Originally trading as New Left Books, the company developed an early reputation as a translator of classic works of European literature and politics by authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Ernest Mandel and Max Weber. More recent translations include the work of Giovanni Arrighi, Norberto Bobbio, Guy Debord, Giles Deleuze, Che Guevara, Carlo Ginzburg, Andre Gorz, Jürgen Habermas, Gabriel García Marquez and Paul Virilio." [2]
Special Series
Accessed April 2010: [3]
Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Culture
- Editor: James Dunkerley
Haymarket Series
- Editors: Mike Davis and Michael Sprinker (1950–1999)
Mappings Series
- Published by Verso in association with New Left Review
Revolutions
- Classic texts by key figures who took center-stage during a period of insurrection
Phronesis Series
- Editors: Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Slavoj Zizek
Radical Thinkers
- Key texts by radical theorists – “a sophisticated blend of theory and thought”
Real Utopias Series
- Editor: Erik Olin Wright
Contact
United Kingdom
Verso
6 Meard Street
London W1F 0EG
Tel 020 7437 3546
Fax 020 7734 0059
e.mail: enquiries@verso.co.uk
USA
20 Jay Street, 10th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201-8346
Tel 718 246 8160
Fax 718 246 8165
e.mail: versony@versobooks.com
URL: http://www.versobooks.com
Resources and articles
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