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A new philosophy of religion for a secular worldHow can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organise a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at ...
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Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 exposé of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-250-4
EAN 9781784782504
Once described by Simone de Beauvoir as France's most exciting feminist theorist, the sociologist Christine Delphy was a central figure in French feminism, and one of the first to focus on the structural importance of the family in understanding women's oppression. Close to Home is her classic study of the family, patriarchal ideologies, and the ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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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A collection of essays on the frantic retreat of democracy and the war on terror, from America's leading essayistLewis Lapham reviews the course of American democracy from the beginning of the War on Terror to the present day: from the bombastic spectacle of US elections, bought and paid for in advance, to the surveillance and ...
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Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today's leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon his teachers, opponents and allies to offer unique insights into both the authors and ...
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A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What's the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn't offer you a seat when you go into his ...
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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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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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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