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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-963-8
EAN 9781844679638
One of Britain's foremost political writers confronts ten years of murderous delusion.In 2001, Tony Blair declared that those who opposed the war on terror had been proved wrong' along with critics of unfettered corporate power and free market capitalism.Ten years later, the critics have been comprehensively vindicated and the champions of the New World Order ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 142 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-042-1
EAN 9781781680421
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world's racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a ...
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Irregular Army
. How the War on Terror brought Neo-nazis, Gang Memebers and Criminals into the US Military
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 26,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-880-8
EAN 9781844678808
Reveals the US military's don't ask, don't tell approach to extremists in its ranks.Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars now the longest wars in American history the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard's explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white ...
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This is a first collection by leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine. Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 31,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-871-6
EAN 9781844678716
With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the most decisive phenomena of the twentieth century - the rise of an Atlantic ruling class of multinational banks and corporations. ...
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In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-862-4
EAN 9781844678624
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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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-861-7
EAN 9781844678617
Searching examination of the influence of the pro-war Left on US foreign policy.A war that has killed over a million Iraqis was a 'humanitarian intervention', the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to world peace is posed by Islam.Those are the arguments of a host of liberal commentators, ranging from ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-901-0
EAN 9781844679010
Trenchant exposé of the myths of green capitalism .In Green Gone Wrong, environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the buzz of corporate marketing by posing one simple question: Do today's much touted green' products carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes actually work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-969-0
EAN 9781844679690
Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas presents a searing critique of the neoliberal nature of the Eurozone and ruthlessly dissects the roots of the current financial turmoil and the European debt crisis. Lapavitsas argues that European austerity is contradictory because it leads ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-855-6
EAN 9781844678556
The forgotten history of London: the world capital of revolutionIn the eyes of Britain's heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background.Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ...
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The Journey to Tahrir
Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt 1999-2011
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 26,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-875-4
EAN 9781844678754
The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers, an editor of Middle East Report - the premier journal covering the region - brings together updated essays that offer unrivalled analysis of the transformation. Starting with the momentous eighteen days of street protest that ...
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The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-647-7
EAN 9781844676477
The principle of the lesser evil the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt's exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, ...
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Liberty and Property
A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enl
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 252 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-752-8
EAN 9781844677528
From Machiavelli to Rousseau, reading theorists as responding to the conflicts of their timeThe formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment all these have been credited to the early modern period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing ...
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de la Porte, Xavier; Lingaard, Jade
The Impostor
BHL in Wonderland
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-748-1
EAN 9781844677481
How do we explain what Perry Anderson has called the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy, far the best-known thinker' under sixty in the country?Anderson continues: It would be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of taste and intelligence than the attention accorded this crass booby in France's public sphere, despite innumerable ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-776-4
EAN 9781844677764
This is the classic history of the Paris Commune, now republished on the occasion of the 140th anniversary with a new preface by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan. The author, Lissagaray, had been a participant in the Commune and, after its suppression, worked for twenty-five years interviewing the survivors in exile and consulting the ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-768-9
EAN 9781844677689
A sardonic reflection on the idealisms and absurdities of intellectual youth.The Conspiracy, winner of the Prix Interallie in 1938, was Paul Nizan's last novel and was hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as his masterpiece. It is centered upon the figure of Bertrand Rosenthal, philosophy student at the Ecole Normale, would-be revolutionary and scion of a haut- ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-787-0
EAN 9781844677870
The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary proposition in a more 'humane' light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary someone who ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-783-2
EAN 9781844677832
Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. A classic analysis of the modern world using Marxist dialectic, it is a book which ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-790-0
EAN 9781844677900
What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be advanced today? These are ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-781-8
EAN 9781844677818
Metapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection.Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou proposes instead the consideration ...
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