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Who were the Frankfurt School? And why do they matter today? This brilliant group biography brings the ideas, lives and drama to lifeThe Frankfurt Institute of Social Research, founded in 1923, but later moving to the US during the war, were a group of thinkers whose lives and philosophies profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped ...
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Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab ...
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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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The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible to write, not simply due to the lack of accessible documentation, but also because it lay at the heart of an ideological confrontation which obscured ...
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-274-0
EAN 9781784782740
Best known today for his work on everyday life, the city and the production of space, Lefebvre wrote on a wide range of topics. First published in 1965, Metaphilosophy is a foundational text for his work and contemporary thinking about philosophy's relation to the world. Lefebvre frequently said that Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche were the ...
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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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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78478-304-4
EAN 9781784783044
The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the ...
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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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The Pristine Culture
A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
- Verso Books, 2015
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PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-103-3
EAN 9781784781033
A historical essay on old regimes and modern statesIn this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a modern state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence of pre-capitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a modern state ...
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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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