Old Gods, New Enigmas

Old Gods, New Enigmas
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781788732178
ISBN-13 : 1788732170
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Old Gods, New Enigmas by : Mike Davis

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition

Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9781487588182
ISBN-13 : 1487588186
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition by : John Bratton

In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate--Karl Marx, ?mile Durkheim, and Max Weber--by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and G.H. Mead. Connecting current headlines in the political mainstream to concepts like alienation, anomie, class, gender, race, and the environment, Capitalism and Classical Social Theory sheds light on how classical social theories may be applied and understood within a contemporary context. This revised and expanded third edition features topical discussions of socio-economic shifts in the post-Trump and post-Brexit world and uses original excerpts and additional readings to further contextualize the significance of classical social theory today.

Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition

Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9781487588205
ISBN-13 : 1487588208
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition by : John A. Bratton

In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate—Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber—by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and G.H. Mead. Connecting current headlines in the political mainstream to concepts like alienation, anomie, class, gender, race, and the environment, Capitalism and Classical Social Theory sheds light on how classical social theories may be applied and understood within a contemporary context. This revised and expanded third edition features topical discussions of socio-economic shifts in the post-Trump and post-Brexit world and uses original excerpts and additional readings to further contextualize the significance of classical social theory today.

We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses

We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015050605149
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses by : Edwin Muir

Condensed novels: New Burlesques

Condensed novels: New Burlesques
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : UGA:32108003749457
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Condensed novels: New Burlesques by : Bret Harte

The Westminster Review

The Westminster Review
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000144986530
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Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Westminster Review by :

The Westminster review [afterw.] The London and Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster and foreign quarterly review [afterw.] The Westminster review [ed. by sir J. Bowring and other].

The Westminster review [afterw.] The London and Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster and foreign quarterly review [afterw.] The Westminster review [ed. by sir J. Bowring and other].
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 572
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:555023790
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Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Westminster review [afterw.] The London and Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster and foreign quarterly review [afterw.] The Westminster review [ed. by sir J. Bowring and other]. by : sir John Bowring

Scientific Enigmas

Scientific Enigmas
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822004147567
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Scientific Enigmas by : Robert Bingham Downs

The Minnesota Quarterly

The Minnesota Quarterly
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 724
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B2983070
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Minnesota Quarterly by :