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On Ideology
Häftad, 2020
149 kr
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The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition. On Ideology charts Althusser's critique of the theoretical system unveiled in his own major works, and his developing practice of philosophy as a …
Precarious Life
The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
125 kr
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In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global …
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Av Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau
Häftad, 2014
235 kr
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In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, …
Late Marxism
Adorno, Or, the Persistence of the Dialectic
Häftad, 2007
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
276 kr
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In the name of an assault on "totalization" and "identity," a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and "post-politics." A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest …
Order Out of Chaos
Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
Av Isabelle Stengers, Ilya Prigogine
Häftad, 2018
347 kr
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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. …
Melancholy Science
An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno
Av Gillian Rose
Häftad, 2014
423 kr
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The Melancholy Science is Gillian Rose's investigation into Theodor Adorno's work and legacy. Rose uncovers the unity discernable among the many fragments of Adorno's oeuvre, and argues that his influence has been to turn Marxism into a search for style. The attempts of Adorno, Lukács and Benjamin …
Precarious Life
The Powers of Mourning and Violence
E-bok, 2020
130 kr
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In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global …
Ethics of the Real
Kant and Lacan
Häftad, 2012
313 kr
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The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary proposition in a more 'humane' light, and to turn Kant …
Fortunes of Feminism
From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
Av Nancy Fraser
Häftad, 2020
161 kr
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Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement, …
Democratic Paradox
Häftad, 2009
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
276 kr
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From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of progress, such ideas constitute a serious …
Democracy Against Capitalism
Renewing Historical Materialism
Häftad, 2016
328 kr
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Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference", and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical programme of historical materialism …
Singular Modernity
Essay on the Ontology of the Present
Häftad, 2013
296 kr
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The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson-perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity-excavates and explores these notions in a …
Read My Desire
Lacan Against the Historicists
Av Joan Copjec
Häftad, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
345 kr
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In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge …
Open Sky
Av Paul Virilio
E-bok, 2020
130 kr
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"One day the day will come when the day will not come." Bleak, but passionately political in its analysis of the social destruction wrought by modern technologies of communication and surveillance, Open Sky is Paul Virilio''s most far-reaching and radical book. Deepening and extending his earlier …
Signs Taken for Wonders
Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms
E-bok, 2020
200 kr
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Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein and The Waste Land- all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that …
Reading Capital
Av Étienne Balibar, Louis Althusser
Häftad, 2009
457 kr
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Establishing a rigorous program of "symptomatic reading" that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx's structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break-the basis of a completely new science. Building on a series …
Concept of Nature in Marx
Häftad, 2014
325 kr
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In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of …
For Marx
Häftad, 2006
363 kr
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This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which was presided over by the fascinating and enigmatic figure of Louis …
State, Power, Socialism
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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Developing themes of his earlier works, Poulantzas here advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state, arguing against a general theory of the state, and identifying forms of class power crucial to socialist strategy that goes beyond the apparatus of the state. This new …
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
Av Guy Debord
Häftad, 2011
137 kr
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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideasgenerated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attackon commodity …
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Av Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau
E-bok, 2014
137 kr
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In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, …
Infinitely Demanding
Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Häftad, 2013
325 kr
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The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can …
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
Av Slavoj Zizek
Häftad, 2013
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
325 kr
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Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the …
Spirit of Terrorism
Häftad, 2013
268 kr
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Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, …
Fiery Brook
Selected Writings
Häftad, 2013
291 kr
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Ludwig Feuerbach's departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened a door for generations of radical philosophical thinkers, foremost among them the young Karl Marx. Indeed, much of early Marx is unintelligible without reference to certain fundamental Feuerbachian texts. The selections in …
Critique of Instrumental Reason
Häftad, 2013
325 kr
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These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and 'instrumental reason' and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the …
Sex-pol
Essays, 1929-1934
Av Wilhelm Reich, Lee Baxandall
Häftad, 2013
472 kr
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This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human suffering. And the same curiosity and courage that led him from medical school to join the early …
Rationality and Irrationality in Economics
Häftad, 2013
325 kr
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This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions:First, what is the rationality of the economic systems that appear and disappear throughout history-in other words, what is their hidden logic and the underlying necessity for them to …
Marxism and Philosophy
Av Karl Korsch
Häftad, 2013
268 kr
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In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has …
