Editorial Verso Books
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Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger's first novel is a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a gripping detective story.
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 356 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-623-1
EAN 9781844676231
Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historianAll modern nation states have a story of their origins, passed down through both official and popular culture, and yet few of these accounts have proved as divisive and influential as the Israeli national myth. The well-known tale of Jewish exile at the hands of ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 412 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-617-0
EAN 9781844676170
Leading sociologist proposes a new framework for a socialist alternativeRising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there has been a global retreat by the Left: on the assumption that liberal capitalism is the ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 48 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-320-9
EAN 9781844673209
Thomas Müntzer was a radical pastor frustrated by the Reformation. He believed that Martin Luther's stand against the Church did not go far enough and demanded the realization of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. To that end, in 1524 he lead the Peasants' War in Germany, an insurrection that culminated in his brutal execution. ...
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Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work ...
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- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-429-9
EAN 9781844674299
Acclaimed, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for universal values by the most dangerous philosopher in the West Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Zizek takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should re-appropriate several lost causes, and ...
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- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 159 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-355-1
EAN 9781844673551
The Democratic Paradox is Chantal Mouffe's most accessible and illuminating study of democracy's sharp edges, fractures, and incongruities. Orienting her discussion within the debates over modern liberal democracy, Mouffe takes aim at John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and the consensus building of third way politics to show how their conceptions of democracy fall victim to paralyzing ...
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- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-361-2
EAN 9781844673612
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, and as a faceless ...
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- Verso Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 35,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-298-1
EAN 9781844672981
Acclaimed exploration of China's emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to read The ...
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- Verso Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 760 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-238-7
EAN 9781844672387
From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the millennium, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the planet.Eschewing the standard histories of "Great Men," of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep ...
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Spectrum
From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
This long-awaited volume, previously announced as Figures in the Forest, offers a critical survey of the ideas of key conservative, liberal and socialist thinkers, rarely considered in the same optic.The book opens with a comparative examination of four remarkable minds of the radical right: Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt, and the ...
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- Verso Books, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,60 €
ISBN 978-1-8446-7057-4
EAN 9781844670574
An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the events of a disordered world.
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- Verso Books, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85984-555-4
EAN 9781859845554
For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic. In some thirty books of fiction, autobiography, essays and journalism, he has turned the Spanish language against what he derides as "Sunnyspain" , flaying the "Hispanos" while excavating their culture's Moorish and Jewish ...
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- Verso Books, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-85984-450-2
EAN 9781859844502
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular, intervention Fredric Jamesonperhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.The extraordinary revival of discussions of modernity, as well as of new ...
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- Verso Books, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-85984-376-5
EAN 9781859843765
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Legislations
The politics of deconstruction
- Verso Books, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 310 páginas
PVP: 29,45 €
ISBN 978-0-86091-668-0
EAN 9780860916680
Written by Jacques Derrida s leading English-language translator and collaborator, this invigorating and intelligent volume displays the continuing power and versatility of deconstruction, presenting it as the most important intellectual movement of our time. Geoffrey Bennington develops a devastating critique of many attempts to clarify or criticize deconstructive thought, and elaborates its potential through original ...
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- Verso Books, 1984
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-86091-789-2
EAN 9780860917892
Ibn Khaldun, the most celebrated thinker of the Muslim Middle Ages, is the subject of this intriguing study. Lacoste opens with a general description of the Maghreb in the later Middle Ages, focusing primarily on mercantile trade, especially in gold, and the social and economic structures of tribal life. He unravels Khaldun's fascinating biography--born of ...
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