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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-627-0
EAN 9781786636270
The original publication of the May Day Manifesto in 1967 collected together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Iris Murdoch, Terry Eagleton, Ralph Miliband and R. D. Laing.The manifesto set out a new agenda for socialist Britain, in the aftermath of ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-278-8
EAN 9781784782788
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panoramic sweep, stretching from St Petersburg ...
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The End of the French Intellectual
From Zola to Houllebecq
- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,96 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-508-2
EAN 9781786635082
Internationally acclaimed Israeli historian Shlomo Sand made his mark with books such as The Invention of the Jewish People and The Invention of the Land of Israel. Returning here to an early fascination, he turns his attention to the figure of the French intellectual. From his student years in Paris, Sand has repeatedly come up ...
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The Dilemmas of Lenin
Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 284 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-111-4
EAN 9781786631114
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-135-0
EAN 9781786631350
According to leading economist Ann Pettifor, one of the few people to predict the 2008 financial crisis, money is not a commodity but a promise. This radical reconsideration of the power of money means that we can reimagine the way the economy works. The Production of Money also examines popular alternative debates on, and innovations ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-478-8
EAN 9781786634788
Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a much better explanatory grasp of national phenomena than is usually supposed, and that the reasoning behind their policy towards specific national movements was often subtle and sensitive to ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-523-5
EAN 9781786635235
Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well-organised, rather than weak and atomised, civil societies. In making this argument the book focuses on three crucial ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-600-3
EAN 9781786636003
Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. Reissued for the 1968 anniversary, Street-Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of the era of hope and passion as Ali tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement. Through his own story, he recounts a counter history of the 60s rocked by the ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-606-5
EAN 9781786636065
This study of Marx serves not only as an excellent introduction to that most influential of "worldly philosophers" but is also a significant resume of the central issues of Bloch's own profound and wide-ranging thought. Special attention is given to the political maturation of the young Karl Marx and to his studies and intellectual relationship ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-706-2
EAN 9781786637062
In this fully updated edition of his coruscating polemic, Tariq Ali shows how, since 1989, politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wide-ranging case for the prosecution, Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment across the ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-417-7
EAN 9781786634177
In a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country "a sort of open-air political lesson", with much to tell us about the wider situation. Greece is exemplary of "our fundamental contradictions in Europe, which are also ultimately the fundamental contradictions of the ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-298-2
EAN 9781786632982
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated. In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is about to ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-389-1
EAN 9781784783891
The Levellers, revolutionaries that grew out of the explosive tumults of 1642 and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative John Rees brings to life the men - including John Lilburne, Richard Overton, Thomas Rainsborough - and women who ensured victory at war, and ...
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Portraits
John Berger on Artists
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-179-8
EAN 9781784781798
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Randa Mdah's work about contemporary Palestine. In his penetrating and singular ...
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Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-577-2
EAN 9781784785772
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-423-8
EAN 9781786634238
Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "Alt-Right" leaders mystifies many. But the extreme Right has been growing steadily in the US since the 1990s, with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists found ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 106 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-328-6
EAN 9781786633286
Since his murder 50 years ago in Bolivia, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic-one of ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-092-6
EAN 9781786630926
Deemed by Arthur C. Clarke to be "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made", The World, the Flesh and the Devil is most famous for having been the first to propose the so-called Bernal Sphere, a type of space habitat intended for permanent residence. Written by one of the most well-known and controversial ...
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Ilya Prigogine; Stengers, Isabelle
Order Out of Chaos
Man's New Dialogue with Nature
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-100-8
EAN 9781786631008
Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-426-9
EAN 9781786634269
Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the philosophy of science, Sheehan shows how Marx's and Engel's ideas on the development and structure of natural science had ...
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