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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-694-1
EAN 9781844676941
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the linguistic turn in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the anti-philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning Badiou ...
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The authorative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chavez places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. Welcomed in 1999 by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential savior, and greeted by Washington with considerable alarm, this former golpista-turned-democrat took up the ...
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An Unfinished Revolution
Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx
- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-722-1
EAN 9781844677221
The impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of free labor and the urgent need to end slavery. In ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-701-6
EAN 9781844677016
Provocative and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jose Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and meditates on his favorite authors. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are ...
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Springtime
The New Student Rebellions
- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 284 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-740-5
EAN 9781844677405
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"One of the finest studies of slavery and abolition. Eric FonerIn 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of exotic products and popular pleasures. Some two and half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo craved by Europeans. ...
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A History of Gold and Money
1450-1920
- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-477-0
EAN 9781844674770
A work of sweeping scholarship, it is impressive and welcome in English. The EconomistAnyone interested in the changing sources and functions of gold and money in Western society will be enlightened and at times diverted by Vilar's pioneering history. Beginning with a survey of the role of gold and the various currencies used in ancient ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-691-0
EAN 9781844676910
Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life.The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst considers the financial crisis, global ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 283 páginas
PVP: 26,85 €
ISBN 978-0-86091-915-5
EAN 9780860919155
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Political reporter Nichols argues that socialism has a long, proud American history. This short, irreverent book gives Americans back a crucial part of their history and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today. Annotation: Political reporter Nichols argues that socialism has a long, proud American history. This short, irreverent book gives Americans back a ...
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Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the mot seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without the costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as Wood powerfully demonstrates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and ...
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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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Engineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, are thought to be the same in all capitalist societies, occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise. What the essays in this volume reveal, however, is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. The ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-595-1
EAN 9781844675951
Some of the earliest examples of communist thought, introduced by Tony Benn. At the end of the English Civil War, Gerrard Winstanley and his comrades, known as Diggers, went to St George's Hill to farm the common land and to distribute the food among themselves. Winstanley's extraordinary writings from this period have remained a huge ...
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The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
The acclaimed historian of slavery Robin Blackburn presents a novel interpretation of slavery and emancipation in the Americas, tracing the importance of the peculiar institution to the Rise of the West as well as to the discourse of human rights that looms large in local and global politics today. Arguing that watershed events led or ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-674-3
EAN 9781844676743
In an iconoclastic work of great verve with an introductory essay by Perry Anderson Sebastiano Timpanaro submits the whole field of psychoanalysis to one of its most sustained and serious Marxist critiques. Using textual criticism, Timpanaro reconsiders the most famous cases of the 'slips' analyzed by Freud in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and argues ...
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