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19 produkter
Traumatized
The New Politics of Public Suffering
Inbunden, 2026
210 kr
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What happens when an idea born of genuine suffering is weaponized as a tool of social control? Traumatized is the story of how shell shock became PTSD, how Oprah turned pain into profit, and how "authenticity" became the ultimate brand. It is a history of surveillance capitalism's greatest coup: …
After Year Zero
On Postwar German Thought
Av Fredric Jameson, Carson Welch
Häftad, 2026
234 kr
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In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it developed in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers - Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Habermas, Marcuse, Beuys, Enzensberger, Kluge, and Sloterdijk - Jameson weaves close …
Blueprint
How Socialism Can Work in the Real World
Av Bhaskar Sunkara, Ben Burgis m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
232 kr
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Capitalism isn't working. But is there a plausible alternative? The Blueprint lays one out: a system where workers control every lever of production, and competitive markets and state planning coexist side by side. Drawing on the history of socialist experiments and the economic debate over …
Utopia
Av Thomas More, Ursula Le Guin
Häftad, 2016
205 kr
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Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text hovering between fantasy, satire, …
Power and the People
A History of British Energy
Inbunden, 2026
295 kr
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The energy crisis of the early 2020s exposed the true nature of Britain's energy system: fragile, fragmented, comically complicated, and hopelessly dependent on imported fossil fuels. How did it come to this? Power and the People uncovers the hidden history of British energy from the Victorians to …
Taking Back Control?
States and State Systems After Globalism
Häftad, 2026
183 kr
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The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the centralization and unification of states and state systems: the replacement of national with global …
Analogue Africa
Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination
Inbunden, 2026
256 kr
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Too many of our convictions about the fifty-four nations of Africa come from non-African sources. Western media often treat the continent as a simulacrum of Western anxieties. In contrast, Jeremy Harding focuses on specific historical episodes and cultural practices - cinema, art, ethnography and …
Care Manifesto
The Politics of Interdependence
Häftad, 2026
125 kr
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The Care Manifesto is the fiercely argued demand to place care at the centre of our politics. Our lives are always interdependent. It is by nurturing these ties that we cultivate a world in which every one of us can not only survive but thrive. Care must be at the heart of the state and the …
Autonomy and Solidarity
Interviews with Jürgen Habermas
Av Jürgen Habermas, Peter Dews
Häftad, 1992
335 kr
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Jürgen Habermas must be accounted one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the present day. Over several decades he has developed an analysis of modernity which is rooted in the tradition of the Frankfurt School, but offers strikingly novel answers to longstanding questions of …
Plato, Etc.
The Problems of Philosophy and Their Resolution
Av Roy Bhaskar
Häftad, 1994
357 kr
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In his most accessible book to date, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the 'problems of philosophy'. Plato Etc. reviews all the main areas of the subject: the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science; the philosophy of logic and language; the philosophies of space, time …
Hitler's Beneficiaries
How the Nazis Bought the German People
Av Götz Aly
Häftad, 2016
320 kr
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How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channelling the proceeds into generous social programmes-Hitler bought his people's consent. Drawing on secret files and …
Full English
The Ways We Eat and Why
Inbunden, 2026
239 kr
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What is English food? The award-winning podcaster Lewis Bassett is a chef in search of an answer. Whether examining the recent invention of sourdough or the aristocratic assumptions informing the rewilding of cuisine, Bassett discovers the deep roots of English food culture in the peculiar …
Right to Housing?
Av Samuel Stein
Häftad, 2026
170 kr
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In the fight for housing, we are caught between the world we know and the world we want. This book is both a road map and a reckoning. Drawing on his own experience of on-the-ground organizing, Samuel Stein presents practical policies for enacting a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right …
Eviction
A Social History of Rent
Häftad, 2026
165 kr
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Grounded in personal experience, Eviction uncovers a hidden history of housing injustice and working-class resistance in what has become a perennial battleground for social conflict in modern Britain.In 2017, Jessica Field's parents and more than a hundred of their neighbours received warning of …
Christopher Hill
The Life of a Radical Historian
Häftad, 2026
253 kr
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Born in 1912, Christopher Hill was one of the foremost historians of his generation. Abandoning the respectable provincial Methodism of his youth, Hill embraced Marxism and pursued a celebrated intellectual career. His early enthusiasm as a member of the Communist Party eventually gave way to …
Axis of Empire
A History of Iran–US Relations
Inbunden, 2026
304 kr
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Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari's accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in the early nineteenth century made way for the next century's oilmen, CIA agents, scholars, and arms …
Black Meme
A History of the Images that Make Us
Häftad, 2026
206 kr
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**Shortlisted for the NBCC Award for Criticism**Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" …
Marx for Our Times
Adventures and Misadventures Of a Critique
Häftad, 2009
325 kr
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The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history's refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 2008 have rekindled interest in capitalism's most persistent critic.Written during the mid-nineties, a …
Paroxysm
Av Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Petit
Häftad, 1998
250 kr
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Closely interviewed by the French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the New World Order; globalization and universalization; the return of ethnic nationalisms; the nature of …
