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Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion
Wealth, Suffering, Negation
Inbunden, 2023
2139 kr
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This book explores a variety of interconnected themes central to contemporary Marxist theory and its further development as a critical social theory. Championing the critique of political economy as a critical theory of society and rejecting Marxian economics as a contradiction in terms, it argues …
Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion
Wealth, Suffering, Negation
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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This book explores a variety of interconnected themes central to contemporary Marxist theory and its further development as a critical social theory. Championing the critique of political economy as a critical theory of society and rejecting Marxian economics as a contradiction in terms, it argues …
Making of Council Democracy
State Transformation and Radical Possibilities
Av Babak Amini
Inbunden, 2024
2594 kr
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“Council democracy” is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system. Both in political practice and in social theory, “council democracy” has …
Making of Council Democracy
State Transformation and Radical Possibilities
Av Babak Amini
Häftad, 2025
729 kr
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“Council democracy” is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system. Both in political practice and in social theory, “council democracy” has …
Commons
A Force in the Socio-Ecological Transition to Postcapitalism
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as …
Commons
A Force in the Socio-Ecological Transition to Postcapitalism
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as …
Extractivism and Universality
Inside an Uprising in the Amazon
Av Japhy Wilson
Inbunden, 2023
2203 kr
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What are the possibilities for a radical politics of universal humanity, at a time when the politics of identity increasingly defines the agenda of the left? What are the political and conceptual implications of such an emancipatory form of universality emerging through the struggles of Indigenous …
Extractivism and Universality
Inside an Uprising in the Amazon
Av Japhy Wilson
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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What are the possibilities for a radical politics of universal humanity, at a time when the politics of identity increasingly defines the agenda of the left? What are the political and conceptual implications of such an emancipatory form of universality emerging through the struggles of Indigenous …
Alternative Futures and the Present
Postcolonial Possibilities
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a …
Alternative Futures and the Present
Postcolonial Possibilities
Inbunden, 2023
2594 kr
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This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a …
Overcoming Exploitation and Externalisation
An Intersectional Theory of Hegemony and Transformation
Inbunden, 2023
1000 kr
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Advancing an intersectional theory of hegemony, this book shows how various power relations interact through capitalist structures of othering. Going beyond the usual critiques of capitalism, it analyses the market itself as a principal cause of various forms of externalisation and domination. The …
Overcoming Exploitation and Externalisation
An Intersectional Theory of Hegemony and Transformation
Häftad, 2025
372 kr
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Advancing an intersectional theory of hegemony, this book shows how various power relations interact through capitalist structures of othering. Going beyond the usual critiques of capitalism, it analyses the market itself as a principal cause of various forms of externalisation and domination. The …
Trade Fetishism
Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Political Economy
Av Gavin Fridell, Patrick Clark
Inbunden, 2026
2519 kr
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Trade Fetishism argues that “trade” not only meets material goals, but also simultaneously works as a fantasy that seeks to satisfy and soothe our unconscious desires and anxieties. Countering the idea that trade is driven ultimately by rational economic, political, and strategic logics, it argues …
Political Ecology of Common People
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one …
Political Ecology of Common People
Häftad, 2025
649 kr
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This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one …
Politics of Curiosity
Alternatives to the Attention Economy
Inbunden, 2024
2448 kr
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Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy. Bringing together the work of leading scholars of ‘critical attention studies’ to reflect on issues such as techno-politics, socio-politics, and the …
Politics of Curiosity
Alternatives to the Attention Economy
Häftad, 2025
688 kr
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Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy. Bringing together the work of leading scholars of ‘critical attention studies’ to reflect on issues such as techno-politics, socio-politics, and the …
Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies …
Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies …
Refusing Ecocide
From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World
Inbunden, 2024
2519 kr
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Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.Employing three core …
Refusing Ecocide
From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World
Häftad, 2024
606 kr
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Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.Employing three core …
Beyond Liberalism and Communism
Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case
Av Michael Brie
Inbunden, 2024
2519 kr
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Beyond Liberalism and Communism: Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case presents a new conceptual framework of socialism and applies it to the study of socialist development in China, shedding new light on modern China and signposting novel directions in socialist thought.Based on a …
Beyond Liberalism and Communism
Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case
Av Michael Brie
Häftad, 2025
708 kr
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Beyond Liberalism and Communism: Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case presents a new conceptual framework of socialism and applies it to the study of socialist development in China, shedding new light on modern China and signposting novel directions in socialist thought.Based on a …
Within and Beyond Capitalism
A Twofold Transformation
Av Dieter Klein
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a …
Within and Beyond Capitalism
A Twofold Transformation
Av Dieter Klein
Häftad, 2025
708 kr
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This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a …
Reimagining Urban Marxisms
Rethinking Thinkers, Texts, and Challenges
Inbunden, 2025
2519 kr
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This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms.Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the “urban question,” such as urban sprawl, housing, …
Ten Essays for a 21st Century Socialism
Inbunden, 2024
2519 kr
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This book explores possible and realistic alternatives to a capitalism that is no longer sustainable, whether economically, socially, or for a habitable planet. Arguing that these alternatives can only be of socialist orientation, the author moves from a discussion of works that attempted to …
Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question
The Immanence of Life
Av Enrique Leff
Inbunden, 2023
2752 kr
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This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a …
Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question
The Immanence of Life
Av Enrique Leff
Häftad, 2025
708 kr
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This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a …
Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism
Beyond Homo Faber
Av Vando Borghi
Inbunden, 2025
2519 kr
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This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the “workman” or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a …
