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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-078-0
EAN 9781786630780
Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only for the few. Food will still be ...
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Bonneuil, Christophe; Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste
The Shock of the Anthropocene : The Earth, History, and Us
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-503-1
EAN 9781784785031
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-242-5
EAN 9781786632425
Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of twenty-five Books to Remember 2000 by the New York Public LibraryIs there a more characteristic figure of the sixties than Muhammad Ali playful and political, popular and non-conformist, defiant and triumphant? In a unique new book, Mike Marqusee puts ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-984-4
EAN 9781781689844
The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical imagination for more than 200 years. It has been a template for heroic insurrection and, to more ...
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Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first centuryKristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns internationalism, education, the future of labor, ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-704-7
EAN 9781844677047
New in paperback: Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics.In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed ...
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The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism. How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from ...
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Kaufmann, Stephen; Stützle, Ingo
Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century' : An Introduction
An introduction to Thomas Piketty's monumental workUS Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman described it as perhaps the most important book of the last decade . Thomas Piketty's Capitalin the 21st Century has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm - as well as intense criticism - in a way ...
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,15 €
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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