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Utopia or Bust
A Guide to the Present Crisis
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-327-9
EAN 9781781683279
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexploredoutside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel's Utopia or Bust leads readers - whether politically committed or simply ...
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Boy 30529
A Memoir
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-300-2
EAN 9781781683002
"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march.' These were ...
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The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-856-3
EAN 9781844678563
Since Israel's foundation in 1948, one guiding idea has been the cornerstone of its identity, its politics and its actions: Zionism. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of ideology in Israel's development, from its inception to the present day. In doing so, he considers the role of the country's universities, ...
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Profiting without Producing
How Finance Exploits us All
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-141-1
EAN 9781781681411
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-145-9
EAN 9781781681459
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-154-1
EAN 9781781681541
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed ...
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Representing Capital
A Reading of Volume One
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-157-2
EAN 9781781681572
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new ...
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Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen
Egypt's Road to Revolt
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-142-8
EAN 9781781681428
Hazem Kandil presents the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath as the latest episodes in the ongoing power struggle between the three components of Egypt's authoritarian regime: the military, the security services and the political apparatus. A detailed study of the interactions within this invidious triangle over six decades of war, conspiracy and sociopolitical transformation, Soldiers, ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-151-0
EAN 9781781681510
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher's work in 1953. Including his ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 139 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-153-4
EAN 9781781681534
Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-155-8
EAN 9781781681558
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 260 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-149-7
EAN 9781781681497
This volume collects Georg Lukács's articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Including his famed essay on parliamentarianism-which earned Lukács the respectful yet severe criticism of Lenin-this book is a treasure chest of valuable insights from one ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 106 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-150-3
EAN 9781781681503
In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political opinion abandon civil liberties, Rancière argues that ...
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The Melancholy Science
An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 212 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-152-7
EAN 9781781681527
The Melancholy Science is the first and foundational work from the celebrated philosopher Gillian Rose and a classic critique of critical theory.
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Women, Resistance, Revolution
A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-146-6
EAN 9781781681466
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 252 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-147-3
EAN 9781781681473
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- Verso Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-259-3
EAN 9781781682593
An analysis of the failings of the Indian RepublicToday, the Indian state claims to possess a harmonious territorial unity, to embody the values of a stable political democracy, and to adhere to a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But does the idea ...
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Identity and Difference
John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness
- Verso Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-134-3
EAN 9781781681343
John Locke's foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher? Identity and Difference argues for reassessing this canonical figure. Closely examining the "treatise on identity" added to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ...
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The Antinomies of Realism
2014 Truman Capote Award
- Verso Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-133-6
EAN 9781781681336
Antinomies of Realism is Jameson's major study of the nineteenth-century realist novel from a comparative perspective, covering the major literary traditions of Western Europe and the United States. It reviews the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism-and takes an approach based on the social and historical preconditions for its emergence. These combine an ...
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