Editorial Verso Books
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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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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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Absolute Recoil
Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
- Verso Books, 2015
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PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-199-6
EAN 9781784781996
Philosophical materialism in all its forms from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj i ek's argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and Freudian ...
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No God but Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-807-6
EAN 9781781688076
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of ...
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Man Tiger
Longlisted 2016 Booker Prize
- Verso Books, 2015
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PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-859-5
EAN 9781781688595
"After half a century," writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson, "Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor." Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty, elegance, cosmopolitanism, and ambition have brought comparisons not only to Pramoedya, universally considered Indonesia's modern ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-226-9
EAN 9781784782269
Why money makes the world go round The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff's investigation into Karl Marx's conception of the money commodity brings vital discussion to commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as the crystallization of value in its material sense is central to how we understand capitalism and how it can be ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-229-0
EAN 9781784782290
This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of value. The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparatively sparse in Anglophone circles, and the essays here aim to answer the question, Why is Marx's theory of value important?
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-232-0
EAN 9781784782320
A clear and compact guide to Marx's road to Das Kapital Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of focused chapters he provides an overview of the debates and discussions central to Marxist economic theory.
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Inequality and the 1%
Critical Perspectives 1836-2005
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-207-8
EAN 9781784782078
Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity.But inequality is more ...
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Flassbeck, Heiner; Lapavitsas, Costas
Against the Troika
Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-313-6
EAN 9781784783136
A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerityOn the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-004-9
EAN 9781781680049
The Stone Woman is the third novel of Tariq Ali's "Islam Quartet." Like its predecessors - Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and The Book of Saladin - its power lies both in the story-telling and the challenge it poses to stereotyped images of life under Islam.
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-876-2
EAN 9781781688762
Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels, dusting Cuban crops with insects, and opening fire with machine guns on Cuban beaches. They flew old American war planes into the Caribbean island's airspace and interfered with Havana Airport's air traffic control. Havana ...
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