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The twentieth century - a century of bombingEver since its invention, aviation has embodied the cosmopolitical dream of perpetual peace between the nations of the earth, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unprecedentedly deadly power. A power initially deployed on populations that the colonizers deemed rather too restive, before it ...
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Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel's most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects the complex attitudes of Western European liberal Left intellectuals toward Israel, Zionism and the Israeli peace camp. He argues that through a prism of famous ...
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Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformityIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were blue ants under the red flag, dressing identically and even marching in an identical fashion. When the Cultural Revolution officially began, this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. ...
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In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted ...
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The artists and writers who left when the Nazis came to power were the best of Germany. Palmier weaves their diverse stories into a history of magisterial scope.In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, the best of ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-118-7
EAN 9781784781187
Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disasterAward-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-076-0
EAN 9781784780760
Why should we have to Keep Calm and Carry On ?In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a make do and mend aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-603-8
EAN 9781784786038
The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand. Examining all the key areas of Marx's writings ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-599-4
EAN 9781784785994
A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crisesIf, in liberal capitalism, political economy is the science of government, what is it for? Is it distributional, to realize the revolution without revolutionaries? Or is it to figure out how to forestall the revolution, to teach the masses to consent to remain poor? Keynesianism is ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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ISBN 978-1-78478-624-3
EAN 9781784786243
A far-reaching deconstruction of neoliberalism's economic agenda, political imposition and mystifying techniquesExploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration of pure capitalism. To misinterpret neoliberalism is to fail to ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-653-3
EAN 9781784786533
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 poverty, media politics and radical theory to ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-658-8
EAN 9781784786588
Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way it is perceived.This is the subject of Christian Salmon's Storytelling, which looks at how the creative imagination has been hijacked in ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-052-4
EAN 9781784780524
Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women's liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics. Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-693-9
EAN 9781784786939
A brilliant novel spanning the lives of a family of activists from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet UnionFor some East Germans, the fall of Communism was like the end of a long and painful love affair: free to tell the truth at last, they found they no longer wanted to hear ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-743-1
EAN 9781784787431
A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the presentWe live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to ...
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Essays that trace the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinkerMarshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism. But ...
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The BBC: the mouth piece of the EstablishmentThe BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain. And it is also one of the most misunderstood. Since its founding, the BBC has been the servant of the establishment. Despite its pleas of impartiality and fairness, and the constant accusations of favouring the liberal point ...
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What lessons can we learn from the defeat of the seventeenth century English revolution?The failure of the English Revolution in 1660 provoked a variety of responses among radical clergy, intellectuals, and writers, as they struggled to accept and account for their defeat in the light of divine Providence. Christopher Hill's close analysis of the writings ...
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Preacher, Soldier, Rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim's Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most significant works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, there was a time when almost every household in Britain was more likely to have a copy than ...
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