Verso — 2024
Extinction as the very lens through which to examine our current reality – and beginning again at the end as a necessary form of liberation.
A seminal contribution….On Extinction demands the attention of anyone who dares to imagine life after capitalism.
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, author of Dark Academe
Palgrave Macmillan — 2017
How can ‘wrong life’ be negated? How can philosophy, psychoanalysis, and modernism serve as crucial points of reference for today’s emancipatory struggles?
Ben Ware applies his vast philosophical and literary culture to the task, and the resulting analyses are superb
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, author of A Marxist Philosophy of Language
Bloomsbury — 2015
Wittgenstein’s enigmatic early masterpiece re-read as a dialectical, modernist work — its anti-philosophical ambition tied to its radical aesthetic character.
With Ware’s help, we can use the Tractatus to stay light on our feet philosophically, and dance on those ladders that lie to us.
Andrew Winer, Notre Dame Philosophical Review
Thames & Hudson — 2026
Leading philosophers and psychoanalytic theorists do to Bacon what Bacon does to his own figures: disfigure and distort him into something new and previously unseen.
Thames & Hudson — 2019
Today’s leading philosophers and psychoanalytic critics go beyond established readings of Bacon, opening up radically new ways of thinking about his art.
