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21 produkter
Capitalism and Culture
Selected Essays and Interviews
Av Henry Giroux
Häftad, 2025
292 kr
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In Capitalism and Culture, Henry Giroux argues that culture has now become the central front in a global struggle for democracy. Drawing on thinkers from Bourdieu and Gramsci to Stuart Hall and Edward Said, Giroux exposes how capitalism and authoritarianism now fuse into a single 'disimagination …
Freud's Foes
Psychoanalysis, Science, and Resistance
Inbunden, 2009
1249 kr
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Freud's Foes, the latest title in the Polemics series, addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while accepting that it has inherent flaws. He argues that although today's 'foes' pose as daring savants, they are only the latest wave of critics that …
Freud's Foes
Psychoanalysis, Science, and Resistance
Häftad, 2011
559 kr
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Freud's Foes, the latest title in the Polemics series, addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while accepting that it has inherent flaws. He argues that although today's 'foes' pose as daring savants, they are only the latest wave of critics that …
Imperial Delusions
American Militarism and Endless War
Av Carl Boggs
Inbunden, 2004
518 kr
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mil·i·ta·rism, n, A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government.A characteristic of regimes like the Soviet Union or communist China, militarism is rarely associated with American society and government. Rather, Americans see their nation as the peaceful …
Gay Marriage and Democracy
Equality for All
Inbunden, 2006
1285 kr
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In this provocative new work, R. Claire Snyder argues that the fundamental principles of American democracy not only allow but require the legalization of same-sex marriage. In addition to explaining the theoretical issues at stake, the book provides a short history of marriage, disentangling its …
Gay Marriage and Democracy
Equality for All
Häftad, 2006
547 kr
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In this provocative new work, R. Claire Snyder argues that the fundamental principles of American democracy not only allow but require the legalization of same-sex marriage. In addition to explaining the theoretical issues at stake, the book provides a short history of marriage, disentangling its …
Media Wars
News at a Time Of Terror
Inbunden, 2003
1569 kr
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"Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that, up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American …
Media Wars
News at a Time Of Terror
Häftad, 2003
618 kr
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"Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that, up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American …
Servants of Wealth
The Right's Assault on Economic Justice
Häftad, 2006
461 kr
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For 25 years now, the Right has been successfully using the rhetoric of freedom and democracy to build support for the politics of wealth and privilege. It has traveled a long way from earlier appearances as the marginalized defender of an idle and backward-looking upper crust and the patriotic …
Challenging Authority
How Ordinary People Change America
Häftad, 2008
375 kr
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Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, …
Freud's Foes
Psychoanalysis, Science, and Resistance
E-bok, 2009
646 kr
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Freud''s Foes, the latest title in the Polemics series, addresses Freud''s fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while accepting that it has inherent flaws. He argues that although today''s ''foes'' pose as daring savants, they are only the latest wave of critics that …
Collapse of Liberalism
Why America Needs a New Left
E-bok, 2004
343 kr
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In The Collapse of Liberalism , noted political scientist Charles Noble shows how the American political system frustrates progressive reform while taking liberalism to task for not being radical enough-for what he sees as a long history of accommodating the very same political institutions and …
Against Free Speech
Inbunden, 2020
1214 kr
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This book explores the renewed and vociferous defence of free speech witnessed in relation to a number of high-profile events, including the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Brexit and Trump campaigns, and recent campus politics. Anthony Leaker argues that the defence of free speech has played a pivotal …
Against Free Speech
Häftad, 2020
291 kr
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This book explores the renewed and vociferous defence of free speech witnessed in relation to a number of high-profile events, including the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Brexit and Trump campaigns, and recent campus politics. Anthony Leaker argues that the defence of free speech has played a pivotal …
Kidnapped Democracy
Häftad, 2019
190 kr
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Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked. By stealth, powerful elites have gradually gained control of the political sphere and transformed it to serve their own interests. The political systems of what appear to be established democracies in all corners of …
Kidnapped Democracy
Inbunden, 2019
1214 kr
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Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked. By stealth, powerful elites have gradually gained control of the political sphere and transformed it to serve their own interests. The political systems of what appear to be established democracies in all corners of …
Kidnapped Democracy
E-bok, 2019
328 kr
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Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked. By stealth, powerful elites have gradually gained control of the political sphere and transformed it to serve their own interests. The political systems of what appear to be established democracies in all corners of …
History of the Housing Crisis
Inbunden, 2022
1072 kr
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In History of the Housing Crisis, Rebecca Searle offers a unique insight into the long history of the housing crisis, telling three stories that are central to understanding the contemporary crisis. The first explores the growth of owner occupation and how this was fostered by generations of …
History of the Housing Crisis
Häftad, 2024
461 kr
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In History of the Housing Crisis, Rebecca Searle offers a unique insight into the long history of the housing crisis, telling three stories that are central to understanding the contemporary crisis. The first explores the growth of owner occupation and how this was fostered by generations of …
Behind The Screens
Mussel Fishing in Norfolk
Häftad, 2026
374 kr
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Within a remote coastal landscape, generations-old skills and traditional beliefs flourish. All work is manual. The pace steady. Tools hand-made from the hedgerows. Boats rowed, not powered. The language poetic. And mussel beds are washed fresh by the tides.But this environment, which looks …
STOP
Häftad, 2026
419 kr
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In 1968, amid the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in London and the global upheavals that followed, Peter Kennard turned from painting to photomontage in search of a more direct political language. STOP emerged from that moment.Working with images drawn from newspapers and magazines - civil rights …
