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Quasi una Fantasia
Essays on Modern Music
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 348 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-792-4
EAN 9781844677924
Quasi una Fantasia contains Adorno's own selection from his essays and journalism over more than three decades.In its analytical profundity it can be compared to his Philosophy of Modern Music, but in the range of its topics and the clarity of its arguments it stands alone among Adorno's writings on music. Especially significant is Adorno's ...
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Israel's murderous assault on the peace flotilla, and the continuing blockade of Gaza, has led many to despair of the official Middle East peace processA"-if it ever had been pursued in earnest, it lies in tatters after the Second Lebanon War, the Gaza War, and the continuing expansion of illegal settlements. Despite the Goldstone Report ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-739-9
EAN 9781844677399
A groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from Plato to Adorno.Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-766-5
EAN 9781844677665
In this short, highly readable book, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ideas of The Modern World-System, his monumental study of capitalism as an integrated, historical entity. In developing an anatomy of capitalism over the past five centuries, Wallerstein provides one of the most coherent and succinct introductions to the genesis of a ...
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The Imperial Messenger
Thomas Friedman at Work
- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-749-8
EAN 9781844677498
Thomas Friedman has been a New York Times foreign affairs columnist since 1995.He has written five books, three of which have won the Pulitizer Prize. He is said by many to be a principled observer of international events and an even-handed analyst of American policy. But Belén Fernández's acerbic close reading of Friedman's voluminous oeuvre ...
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Michael Ignatieff
The Lesser Evil?
- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-615-6
EAN 9781844676156
A forensic critique of the influential liberal explores his opposition to fundamental human rights, the extension of democracy and the pursuit of economic equality.One of the most influential intellectuals in the English-speaking world, Michael Ignatieff's story is generally understood to be that of an ambitious, accomplished progressive politician and writer, whose work and thought fit ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-744-3
EAN 9781844677443
World-class novelists envision the terrors of impending climate change.The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 554 páginas
PVP: 26,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-774-0
EAN 9781844677740
Chosen by The Modern Library as one of the best one hundred nonfiction books of the twentieth century.William Appleman Williams was one of America's greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-1-85984-574-5
EAN 9781859845745
Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to escape his lure. He seduces by appealing to our desire ...
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The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-699-6
EAN 9781844676996
Four generations of intellectuals discuss their political histories and present perspectives, and the specialized work for which they are, often, best known. These recollections span the one hundred years from the eve of the Great War to the present, ranging across Europe East and West, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis, philosophy, the gendering of ...
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Citizens to Lords
. A Social History Of Political Thought From Classical Antiquity To The Late Middle Ages
- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,48 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-706-1
EAN 9781844677061
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood lays out her innovative approach to the history of political theory and traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Her social history is a significant departure from other contextual interpretations. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,96 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-714-6
EAN 9781844677146
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 274 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-379-7
EAN 9781844673797
A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China's New Left . Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-710-8
EAN 9781844677108
A landmark in comparative literature in Britain. George Steiner, Sunday Times Very few men , said Bakunin, have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx. S. S. Prawer's highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature poems, novels, plays infused and shaped Marx's writings, from ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-703-0
EAN 9781844677030
From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off corsets, forming free unions, living communally, buying ethically, ...
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