Recommended by James Crane
Owen has been my trusted guide through the Republic for several years for many reasons, not the least of which is his account of the way the strange exchange with Thrasymachus in Book I sets the stage for Plato's grand functionalist account of the pattern of justice in the city and, as this pattern is deformed and reformed, the telescoping of city and soul.
Richard has been working over the deadlocks in Marxist historiography on the global scope of uneven & combined development across the timescale longue durée. In every case--whether the problem is periodization, state formation, class composition, or racialization--he brings you along on the hunt for the most concrete mediations that show how we are personally bound & involved as actors & critics in the social dynamics impersonally freed & evolved by the reflux & surplus of capital accumulation.