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  • - A Brief Presentation
    af Alexandre Kojeve
    207,95 kr.

    In The Notion of Authority, written in the1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojeve uncovers the conceptual premisesof four primary models of authority,examining the practical application of theirderivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France.This foundational text, translated here intoEnglish for the first time, is the missing piece in any discussion of sovereignty and politicalauthority, worthy of a place alongside the work of Weber, Arendt, Schmitt, Agambenor Dumezil. The Notion of Authority is a short andsophisticated introduction to Kojeve'sphilosophy of right. It captures its author'sintellectual interests at a time when he wasretiring from the career of a professionalphilosopher and was about to become oneof the pioneers of the Common Market and the idea of the European Union.

  • - A Biography of Jacques Derrida
    af Peter Salmon
    117,95 - 165,95 kr.

    Philosopher, film star, father of 'post truth': the real story of Jacques Derrida

  • - A Political History of the North-South Divide
    af Tom Hazeldine
    195,95 kr.

    A history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matter

  • - Sociology of Deviance and Fiction
    af Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
    230,95 kr.

    Vincent Ruggiero's wide ranging study takes in several authors, including Victor Hugo, Camus, Cervantes and Emile Zola, and addresses themes such as organized crime, the links between crime and drugs, political and administrative corruption, concepts of deviancy and the criminal justice process.

  • - 1995-2000
    af Jean Baudrillard
    212,95 kr.

    Here, in this fourth collection, Baudrillard's stance is less that of the interventionist intellectual analysing the world as critical subject, than of the barely participant observer, an "internal exile" watching the world with fierce insistence, yet registering our shortage of reality.

  • - Culture and Self-Realization in Postmodern Times
    af Kate Soper
    312,95 kr.

    In this work, the authors explore the growing tensions and contradictions between Matthew Arnold's enduring ideal (that human beings "must be compelled to relish the sublime") and the contemporary world of work, pleasure and consumption.

  • - Central America, Social Change and Globalization
    af William I Robinson
    362,95 kr.

    Contemporary capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars and pacification in Central America. This study maps the transnational processes that have shaped the region's past and its possible futures.

  • af Aletta J Norval
    412,95 kr.

    This work questions the nature of the apartheid system and the identities it fostered. It includes an in-depth examination of the institution of apartheid as a new form of social division, and a combination of post-Marxist and post-structuralist theories of social division and identity formation.

  • - European Fantasies of the East
    af Alain Grosrichard
    216,95 kr.

    A survey of Western accounts of "Oriental despotism" in the 17th and 18th centuries, focusing particularly on portrayals of the Ottoman empire and the supposedly enigmatic structure of the despot's court - the seraglio - with its viziers, dwarfs, mutes, eunuchs and countless wives.

  • - Contemporary Photography in Brazil
    af Maria Luiza Carvalho
    237,95 kr.

    Highlights the work of contemporary Brazilian photographers with an emphasis on images which reflect the dynamism and eclecticism of Brazilian society. The work of 21 of Brazilian photographers is shown, and the text describes the new uses of photography within the contemporary arts.

  • - From Labourism to Thatcherism
    af Colin Leys
    287,95 kr.

    Politics in Britain is an original and powerful work of synthesis that is essential reading for students of the political scene in the UK today. Controversial when it was first published, the book's analysis of the changing face of British politics has been confirmed by events of the 1980s. This new edition, revised throughout, is brought up to date with substantial new material on the Thatcherite era.Leys provides a solid body of information on the central topics of British politics - not only on the nature of political parties and the evolution of the state, but also on the organisation of capital and labour, the role of social class in British politics, the transformation of local democracy, law and order, and other areas seldom discussed in more orthodox texts. The book also includes new accounts of Thatcher's programme of de-nationalisation, and of the changes to the Welfare State. Now more relevant than ever. Politics in Britain has yet to be surpassed as an introduction to its subject.

  • - Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State
    af Dale Carter
    232,95 kr.

    Stunned by the news of Sputnik in 1957, the American public were to be treated over the next dozen years to the spectacle of an all-out national crusade: the race to beat the Russians to the moon. What few understood at the time - and what has largely been obscured in popular representations of this episode in movies and bestsellers - was the key economic and technical role played by manned space exploration in post-war US capitalist expansion. From Potsdam to Cape Canaveral, the yellow brick road twisted and turned, but its ultimate goal remained clear: the Oz of global American economic and political domination.Taking off from that masterpiece of American fiction, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Dale Carter tells the lurid tale of the postwar boom, through the history of the manned space program. Salvaged from the ashes of Nazi Germany (Pynchon's 'Oven State'), as US officials rounded up the Third Reich's leading V-2 scientists, the American Rocket State embarked on an upward path that would culminate in the epochal voyage of Apollo XI in 1969. Following this path, Carter gives an innovative, brilliant account of American culture and society during the Cold War. He charts the ideological and political significance of a range of phenomena, from films like High Society, Destination Moon and When Worlds Collide to John F. Kennedy's rise to power, from the emergence of a new high-tech economy fueled by the NASA-led transformation of the aerospace industry to the last flight of the space shuttle Challenger. His highly original account of the star-spangled space age sets a new standard for the study of American culture.

  • - Dictatorship and Revolution in El Salvador
    af James Dunkerley
    357,95 kr.

    The Long War is a serious, radical critique of the political economy and recent history of El Salvador, set in the context of the troubled history of the entire Central American region and detailing in full the extent of US intervention and its importance as a destabilising factor.With the addition of a postscript, this new edition brings the narrative fully up-to-date.

  • af Ralph Miliband
    252,95 kr.

    Ralph Miliband is one of the major Marxist sociologists working today. His books, The State in Capitalist Society and Parliamentary Socialism, arc standard reference points in all debates on the nature of the state.Less widely known, and never before collected in one volume, are Miliband's contributions to the development of socialist politics. As an essayist, he deploys a wide political culture and clarity of argument with a sustained commitment to socialist values. The topics of the essays gathered here were sparked by the key occasions of socialist debate in the past twenty years. They include socialist democracy; the relation between class power and state power in the transition to socialism; the role of human agency in history, and the character of the Soviet Union. Kolakowski, Bahro, Medvedev and Bettelheim are among the figures whose contributions are soberly and constructively assessed. The lessons of the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile are drawn in a tour de force of controlled moral outrage and urgent analysis.All of Miliband's interventions in his famous debate with Nicos Poulantzas are brought together for the first time, along with his subsequent reflections on the questions it addressed. Finally, Miliband explores the special problems posed for socialists by the existence of powerful and inert labour parties in advanced capitalist countries, arguing powerfully for a recognition that contemporary conditions demand a rejection both of Leninist and of social-democratic strategies.Class Power and State Power is an impressive display of the depth and range of Ralph Miliband's writing of the past twenty years; it will confirm his status as one of the most important contemporary Marxist thinkers.

  • - A Guide to Alexander Kluge & Oskar Negt
    af Richard Langston
    642,95 kr.

    Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt

  • af James Dunkerley
    307,95 kr.

    Over recent years James Dunkerley has established a reputation as one of the most thoughtful and eloquent writers on Latin America. In his latest book he investigates the high incidence of political suicide in the subcontinent. A sensitive and revealing essay details a number of case studies: the still disputed death of Chilean President Salvador Allende during Pinochet’s storming of the Moneda Palace in 1973; the case of the Salvadorean guerrilla leader Salvador Cayetano Carpio who shot himself in the heart in April 1983; the death of Brazilian President Getulio Vargas, who declared in April 1954 that he would only leave the presidential palace dead—and a few days later did so; Bolivian President German Busch, who died at his own hand aged thirty-five in 1939; and the dramatic end of Eduardo Chibas, founder of the Cuban People’s Party, who shot himself live on Havana radio in 1951. in the pieces which follow, Dunkerley employs his customary acuity to range over the implications of the Sandinista defeat in Nicaragua, the plight of El Salvador, the modern history of Bolivia, the experience of postwar Guatemala and, in a coruscating broadside, the politics of the Peruvian novelist and the presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa.

  • - Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism
    af Kate Soper
    283,95 kr.

    What happens when ‘life’s simple joys’ become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practices of distribution and exploitation. Exotic and diverse objects of pleasure are made available only at the price of a heightened awareness of their origins, genealogies and possible effects; ‘authenticity’ recedes behind objects produced as pleasures.Troubled Pleasures considers the ways in which modern pleasure is fraught with unhappy implications, at the same time as contemporary critical arguments put into question the touchstones of identity, morality, subjectivity and desire. It brings together writings which explore the sources of pleasure’s ‘loss of innocence’, and which argue the case for a scrupulous ‘alternative hedonism’. Including essays on human needs, socialism and gender, a feminist response to Joyce’s Ulysses, and a fictional reflection on appetite and excess, Troubled Pleasures plots an Epicurean path between righteous asceticism and conspicuous consumption.

  • - The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise
    af Dean Chadwin
    367,95 kr.

    This volume is an unconventional foray into the underworld of baseball. It looks at issues such as baseball's cult of memory, numerology in sport and society, the emergence of an anti-competitive league and exploitation by a cartel.

  • - The Struggle for Hegemony in Russia
    af Jeremy Lester
    367,95 kr.

    This study offers an account of political life in Russia since the fall of communism, as ultra-nationalists, nostalgic communists, Westernizers and administrative centrists seek to control the destinies of a deeply- troubled society and state.

  • - Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man
    af Warren Montag
    262,95 kr.

    This study situates the works of Jonathan Swift in relation to the ideological and political currents of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It aims to contribute to the understanding of a seminal figure in English literature.

  • - New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics
    af Alan M Wald
    246,95 kr.

    In this collection of essays, the author combines a series of assessments of "classic" and "lost" texts in the US Marxist literary tradition, and analyzes developments in Marxist scholarship by Robin Kelley, Michael Lowy, James Murphy, Paula Rabinowitz and Alexander Saxton.

  • - Politics and Narrative in Postmodern Culture
    af Fred Pfeil
    362,95 kr.

    Through his work as a fiction writer, critic and activist, Fred Pfeil has sought to extend the progressive possibilities within contemporary American culture. Idiosyncratic and provocative, Another Tale to Tell moves from evaluations of politically engaged texts and practices—such as Hans Haacke’s deconstructive artwork, Chester Himes’ Harlem police thrillers, ‘cyberpunk’ and the feminist science fiction of Octavia Butler—to considerations of the history, dynamics and potential of postmodern culture.Pfeil’s work on postmodernity is distinct from the spate of their works on the subject in its insistence on the social base of postmodern practices within today’s professional managerial class, and in his endeavour both to use and to criticize Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and poststructuralist thought in order to illuminate our present political impasses and openings.From his audacious reading of the film River’s Edge as the terminus of the vexed history of bourgeois narrative, and his analysis of Reaganite oedipality in Back to the Future, to his unsettling meditation on the ‘poststructuralist paradise’ embodied in contemporary SF, Pfeil sorts through a welter of contemporary cultural texts and practices for the glimmerings of a postmodern narrative and politics that may truly be ‘another tale to tell’.

  • - Its Situation and Its Task
    af Roberto Mangabeira Unger
    216,95 kr.

    Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen opportunities to advance progressive commitments. To seize such opportunities, however, we must rethink many of our basic beliefs about society - about what it is and what it can become.

  • - Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism
    af Anne Alstott
    312,95 kr.

    In a system of basic income, as elaborated by Philippe van Paijs, all citizens are given a monthly stipend sufficiently high to provide them with a no-frills, but adequate standard of living.

  • - Journeys and Encounters
    af Alexander Cockburn
    462,95 kr.

    Both a diary of a radical's working life and a chronicle of the recent political past. His reflections are mixed with letters from Graham Greene, an interview with Noam Chomsky, personal friends and irate readers. Alexander Cockburn is the co-author, with Susanna Hecht, of "Corruptions of Empire".

  • - Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice
    af Carlo Ginzburg
    204,95 kr.

    Historian Carlo Ginzburg here draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in the late-20th century political show trial of Italian communists, Continua, Sofri, Bompressi and Piotresetafani.

  • - Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America 1930-1960
    af Valerie Fraser
    362,95 kr.

    The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English-speaking world, which had previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of twentieth-century architecture. Building the New World attempts to redress the balance. It surveys the most important examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism, when politicians and architects such as Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer sought ways, literally, to build their societies out of underdevelopment.

  • - Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History
    af Haripriya Rangan
    362,95 kr.

  • - Terry Eagleton in Dialogue
    af Terry Eagleton
    412,95 kr.

    Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. This title includes interviews that cover both his life and the development of his thought and politics. It is suitable for those interested in the evolution of radical politics and modernism.

  • af Rebecca Schoenkopf
    262,95 kr.

    Shows Commie Girl's mordant gaiety in the teeth of the febrile vacancy that threatens to engulf her at various turns - whether stricken with terror at the prospect of a chance encounter with Dick Cheney or puzzling in vain over the philosophical conundrum of taking Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously.

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