Mazzini and Marx

Mazzini and Marx
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9780313051999
ISBN-13 : 0313051992
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Mazzini and Marx by : Salvo Mastellone

Between August 1846 and April 1847, Guiseppe Mazzini, in London exile, published six articles in English in the People's Journal, the last of which was on Communism. With these articles, which became known in his native country in an 1852 Italian reworking, Mazzini powerfully inserted himself into the debate on the nature of democracy, alongside the most illustrious intellectuals of the time, Tocqueville, Blanc, Cabet, and Proudon. In two of his pieces, Mazzini answered the democratic communists-the Fraternal Democrats-who in 1847 invited the twenty-eight year old Karl Marx to London to rebut Mazzini's perceptive criticisms of communism and to explore a new possible elaboration of the ideology. Mastellone confronts the English text of Mazzini with the German text of Marx and traces an almost forgotten theoretical contest that has been ignored, but remains crucial for an understanding of two fundamental movements of the modern world: communism and democracy.

Mazzini and Marx

Mazzini and Marx
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Publisher : Praeger
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056845921
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Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Mazzini and Marx by : Salvo Mastellone

Between August 1846 and April 1847, Guiseppe Mazzini, in London exile, published six articles in English in the People's Journal, the last of which was on Communism. With these articles, which became known in his native country in an 1852 Italian reworking, Mazzini powerfully inserted himself into the debate on the nature of democracy, alongside the most illustrious intellectuals of the time, Tocqueville, Blanc, Cabet, and Proudon. In two of his pieces, Mazzini answered the democratic communists-the Fraternal Democrats-who in 1847 invited the twenty-eight year old Karl Marx to London to rebut Mazzini's perceptive criticisms of communism and to explore a new possible elaboration of the ideology. Mastellone confronts the English text of Mazzini with the German text of Marx and traces an almost forgotten theoretical contest that has been ignored, but remains crucial for an understanding of two fundamental movements of the modern world: communism and democracy.

Mazzini

Mazzini
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 0300068840
ISBN-13 : 9780300068849
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Mazzini by : Denis Mack Smith

This biography of Giuseppe Mazzini re-examines his ideological impact and portrays Mazzini as a vigorous proponent of patriotism, and a pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity. His ideas also brought him into contact with Marx, Carlyle, Mill and Bakunin.

Machiavelli to Marx

Machiavelli to Marx
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780226288505
ISBN-13 : 0226288501
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Machiavelli to Marx by : Dante Germino

"Germino examines the scholars of this period whose works he feels have made significant new approaches to the critical understanding of our world and, consequently, to the problems of our time. He discusses utilitarianism, lieberalism, scientism, and messianic nationalism"--Back cover

Why Only Art Can Save Us

Why Only Art Can Save Us
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9780231544962
ISBN-13 : 0231544960
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Only Art Can Save Us by : Santiago Zabala

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political realism stops us from recognizing as emergencies, from widespread surveillance to climate change to the systemic shocks of neoliberalism. We need a way of disrupting the existing order that can energize radical democratic action rather than reinforcing the status quo. In this provocative book, Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, only contemporary art’s capacity to alter reality can save us. Why Only Art Can Save Us advances a new aesthetics centered on the nature of the emergency that characterizes the twenty-first century. Zabala draws on Martin Heidegger’s distinction between works of art that rescue us from emergency and those that are rescuers into emergency. The former are a means of cultural politics, conservers of the status quo that conceal emergencies; the latter are disruptive events that thrust us into emergencies. Building on Arthur Danto, Jacques Rancière, and Gianni Vattimo, who made aesthetics more responsive to contemporary art, Zabala argues that works of art are not simply a means of elevating consumerism or contemplating beauty but are points of departure to change the world. Radical artists create works that disclose and demand active intervention in ongoing crises. Interpreting works of art that aim to propel us into absent emergencies, Zabala shows how art’s ability to create new realities is fundamental to the politics of radical democracy in the state of emergency that is the present.

Governing the World

Governing the World
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : 9780143123941
ISBN-13 : 0143123947
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Governing the World by : Mark Mazower

A majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world’s governing institutions The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity’s worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazower’s Governing the World tells the epic, two-hundred-year story of that inevitable tension—the unstable and often surprising alchemy between ideas and power. From the rubble of the Napoleonic empire in the nineteenth century through the birth of the League of Nations and the United Nations in the twentieth century to the dominance of global finance at the turn of the millennium, Mazower masterfully explores the current era of international life as Western dominance wanes and a new global balance of powers emerges.

"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective

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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9789004335462
ISBN-13 : 9004335463
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis "Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective by :

“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism. In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation. Contributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.

Karl Marx

Karl Marx
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9781400848119
ISBN-13 : 1400848113
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Karl Marx by : Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, explains why they were revolutionary in political and intellectual terms, and paints a memorable portrait of Marx's dramatic life and outsized personality. Berlin takes readers through Marx's years of adolescent rebellion and post-university communist agitation, the personal high point of the 1848 revolutions, and his later years of exile, political frustration, and intellectual effort. Critical yet sympathetic, Berlin's account illuminates a life without reproducing a legend. New features of this thoroughly revised edition include references for Berlin's quotations and allusions, Terrell Carver's assessment of the distinctiveness of Berlin's book, and a revised guide to further reading.

Marxism and Philosophy of Praxis

Marxism and Philosophy of Praxis
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9783030725594
ISBN-13 : 3030725596
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Marxism and Philosophy of Praxis by : Marcello Mustè

This book will offer a full reconstruction of the history of Theoretical Marxism in Italy between 1895 and 1935, based on a rigorous philological method. The starting term (1895) is marked by the publication of Antonio Labriola's first essay on historical materialism (In memory of Communist Manifesto); the final term coincides with the conclusion of the "Prison Notebooks" written by Antonio Gramsci. This book analyses the original character of the Marxist philosophy in Italy, which emerged by distinguishing itself from the "orthodoxy" of the Second and Third International. By delineating a significant chapter in the history of Marxism, the book will also propose a specific contribution to the history of Italian Philosophy, which is here studied in relation to the developments of European philosophy, beyond the traditional subdivisions of Positivism, Idealism and Marxism.

Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism

Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781137514592
ISBN-13 : 1137514590
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism by : Simon Levis Sullam

This controversial and groundbreaking study proposes a compelling reinterpretation of the political thought of one Italy's founding fathers, Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), and in the process suggests a new approach to understanding the origins of fascist ideology.