Radical Thinkers Classics: Minima Moralia, Culture and Materialism, For Marx, Aesthetics and Politics (Shrinkwrapped Set) (Vol. 1-4) – $1,995

 

Four classic Verso titles in beautifully designed hardcovers, shrinkwrapped as a set, to commemorate Verso’s 40 years at the forefront of theory publishing.

In Radical Thinkers Classics, Verso reissues, in elegantly designer new hardcovers, four classic theory books. This set of four volumes includes:

Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno: A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s literary and philosophical masterpiece built from aphorisms and reflections, shifting in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.

For Marx by Louis Althusser: the founding text of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which was presided over by the fascinating and enigmatic figure of Louis Althusser. Structuralism constituted an intellectual revolution in the 1960s and 1970s and radically transformed the way philosophy, political and social theory, history, science, and aesthetics were discussed and thought about.

Culture and Materialism by Raymond Williams: A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century, Williams’s most significant work from over a twenty-year period in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship.

Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, and Georg Lukacs: The most remarkable aesthetic debates in European cultural history, with an afterword by Fredric Jameson. The key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in this single volume—a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.