Editorial Verso Books
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Darkwater
Voices from Within the Veil
- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-775-2
EAN 9781784787752
Essential reading for students of African-American historyThe distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Part essay, part autobiography, Darkwater explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-813-7
EAN 9781781688137
It's easy to imagine the end of the world, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek has remarked, but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism. Jacobin editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-621-2
EAN 9781784786212
Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators and supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-471-3
EAN 9781784784713
Original investigative reporting from award-winning scholar and expert on border issues, probing the ongoing migrant crisisForty thousand human beings died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. 14 million people were displaced by war in ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-592-5
EAN 9781784785925
A brilliant collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed young writers in the USMark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In Against Everything, he make us rethink the ordinary, taking our own lives seriously, exploring how we might live an honest life in these dishonest times. In ...
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Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-675-5
EAN 9781784786755
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the ...
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Raymond Chandler
The Detections of Totality
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-216-0
EAN 9781784782160
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novelRaymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-112-5
EAN 9781784781125
Erdmut Wizisla's groundbreaking work explores the important friendship between Walter Benjamin, the acclaimed critic and literary theorist, and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights, directors and poets, during the crucial interwar years. From the first meeting between Benjamin and Brecht to their experiences in exile, the events in this friendship are ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-453-9
EAN 9781784784539
Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writersFredric Jameson's path-breaking essay An American Utopia radically questions standard leftist notions of an emancipated society, advocating among other things universal conscription as the model for the communist reorganization of society, fully acknowledging envy and resentment as the central problem of a communist society, and rejecting ...
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A History of Violence
Living and Dying in Central America
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-168-2
EAN 9781784781682
Heartbreaking immersion into the lives of people enduring extreme violence in Central AmericaEl Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years. Óscar Martínez, author of The Beast, which was named one of the best books of the year by the Economist and the Financial Times, shares ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-516-1
EAN 9781784785161
Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee their homes. Militant Sunni groups, such as ISIS, have taken control of large swathes of the nation. The ...
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
Consuming Austerity
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-075-3
EAN 9781784780753
Why should we have to Keep Calm and Carry On ?In this sharp, witty polemic, award-winning critic Owen Hatherley questions the many ways we have adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty: from ubiquitous Keep Calm and Carry On posters, the commercialization of thrift, the added value of the artisanal, and the selling of a make ...
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In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-202-3
EAN 9781784782023
For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by timeless standards ...
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Democracy Against Capitalism
Renewing Historical Materialism
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-244-3
EAN 9781784782443
Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of postmodern fragmentation, difference, and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-247-4
EAN 9781784782474
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Marx and Human Nature
Refutation of a Legend
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-235-1
EAN 9781784782351
In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. rather, his later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfill both explanatory and normative functions. Over one hundred and thirty years after Marx's ...
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Public Sphere and Experience
Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-241-2
EAN 9781784782412
The public sphere is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt's groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions ...
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Peasant-Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
- Verso Books, 2015
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PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-102-6
EAN 9781784781026
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable ...
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Red Rosa
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-099-9
EAN 9781784780999
A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa LuxemburgA giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. To Marx's biographer Franz Mehring, no one came as close to the towering intellect of Marx himself. But she was much ...
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Politics in a Time of Crisis
Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-335-8
EAN 9781784783358
A manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform EuropeSince 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics. Under his guidance, the party has unmasked the ideological motives behind European austerity, revealing the true nature of this power ...
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