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Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The first volume presented an introduction to the concept of everyday life. Written twenty years later, this second volume attempts to establish the necessary formal instruments for analysis, and outlines a series of ...
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If true politics involves a knowledge of everyday life and a critique of its requirements, conversely everyday life involves a critique of all politics. The first volume of Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life is a work of enormous intellectual range and subtlety by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and sociologists. Linking philosophical ...
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The radical sociologist analyzes the practices of the elite. A fundamental contribution both to the political sociology of state institutions in general and to the Marxist theory of the state rich in theoretical insight and historical illustration. Erik Olin Wright
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A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive critique of the traditional, positivist conception of science and stakes out an alternative, ...
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In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the murder of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the social and technological processes by which reality has quite simply vanished under ...
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A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism.
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The theorist of radical liberation analyszes what it is that causes oppression. Marcuse brought a forceful clarity to the leftist table; a classical Marxism willing to confront new realities The Nation
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One day the day will come when the day will not come. Bleak, but passionately political in its analysis of the social destruction wrought by modern technologies of communication anc surveillance Open Sky is Paul Virilio's most far-reaching and radical book. Deepening and extending his earlier work, he explores the growing danger of what he ...
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With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza's major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to ...
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A classic philosophical study on how political and cultural ideas come to dominate. One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his capacity to inspire the intelligent young. Eric Hobsbawm Althusser traversed so many lives so many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by ...
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For They Know not what They Do
Enjoyment as a Political Factor
Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father's prohibition. Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, ...
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Ghostly Demarcations
A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx
With the publication of Spectres of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely intervention in one of today's most ...
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- Verso Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-206-6
EAN 9781844672066
A thrilling rise through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.
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What are the political logics explaining the spread of populist experiences in the contemporary world? What is involved in constructing the idea of the people? And how does this construction relate to other forms of political subjectivity classes, corporations and other forms of association?Laclau's analysis of populist experiences begins with a critique of current approaches ...
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- Verso Books, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,94 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-175-5
EAN 9781844671755
Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary's church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and ...
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- Verso Books, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-178-6
EAN 9781844671786
Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Written in the white heat of the Civil War, Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship of the twentieth century. In his provocative commentary in this new edition the ...
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Long before Antonio Negri became famous around the world for his groundbreaking volume Empire, he was infamous across Europe for the incendiary writings contained in this book. Books for Burning consists of five pamphlets that Negri wrote between 1971 and 1977, which attempt to identify and draw lessons from new conditions of class struggle that ...
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What are the particular characteristics of contemporary racism, and how far do they force us to rethink the relations between class struggles and nationalism? Balibar and Wallerstein debate these questions
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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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