Verso Books
Zobrazeno 61. – 75. z 425 výsledků
Cizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Bringing together analyses from different fields—law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis—Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn’t just a metaphor. It’s the operating system for the present. Politics and plunder…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crisis - ecological, political, social - which we may not survive. In this brilliant, wide-ranging conversation, political philosophers Nancy Fraser and Rahel…495 Kč KoupitArt, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point,…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Science
Finance. Climate. Food. Class. How are the crises—and politics—of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause:…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Captives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island’s descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New York and American politics from the vantage point of its jails. It…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Science
With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West an…429 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is not just the tale of the first man from a developing country to ever reach the top of the Forbes list…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant…330 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or Grand Central Terminal, through petitions and marches, thousands of Jews have made…726 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike…429 Kč KoupitArt, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls for us to…627 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
If the question of communism is making a comeback today, this renewed interest is often accompanied by an abandonment of any concrete political perspective. Critical philosophies are flourishing and proliferating, but, folded into the academic…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci’s notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj…396 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
A moving novel of a life transformed by passion, by the Booker Prize-winning author of G.396 Kč Koupit
Zobrazeno 61. – 75. z 425 výsledků