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Butler, Judith; Laclau, Ernesto; Zizek, Slavoj
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-667-5
EAN 9781844676675
André Gorz's earlier books from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic Reason, he offers his fullest account to date of the terminal crisis of ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-666-8
EAN 9781844676668
A definitive collection of Bentham's work on the model prison, key to Foucault's theory of power.The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-649-1
EAN 9781844676491
New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 420 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-644-6
EAN 9781844676446
All That Is Sold Melts into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture. is a dazzling exploration ...
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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, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-314-8
EAN 9781844673148
Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel's most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work, he fearlessly dissects the complex attitudes of Western European liberal Left intellectuals toward Israel, Zionism and the 'Israeli peace camp'. He argues that through a prism of famous ...
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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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