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Book SynopsisThis introductory study looks at Bergson's use of philosophical form itself and aims to dispel the view that Bergson ever stuck to one type of philosophy at all, be it vitalism or phenomenology.

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Book SynopsisIn concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

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Book SynopsisIn concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

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Book SynopsisNeo-liberalism has been one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War. This book provides an original account of its intellectual foundations, development and conceptual configuration as an ideology.Newly available in paperback, this book presents a comparative study of the development and the nature of neo-liberal ideas in the national contexts of Germany, Britain and the United States since the twentieth century, addressing the following questions:* What are neo-liberalism''s intellectual origins?* What influence did neo-liberalism have on public policy debates? * What are neo-liberalism''s core concepts and how have they been interpreted in different national contexts that make it a distinctive ideology?In answering these questions, the book provides a deeper insight into the historical and intellectual origins and conceptual configuration of an ideology that reshaped politics and societies across the world.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Reinventing Liberal Ideology I: Ideas in Context 2. Liberal Traditions 3. The 'Rebirth of Liberalism' 4. Reinventing the Liberal Agenda II: Political Concepts 5. The Market: Against the State 6. Welfare: The Legitimacy of State Provision 7. The Constitution: Government and the Rule of Law 8. Property: Individualism and Ownership 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis second volume covers the relationship between socialist currents and the national liberation movement from the 1940s through decades of increasing repression and illegality, culminating in the transition to armed struggle in the early 1960s.Table of ContentsHistorians; political studies researchers and students wishing to read original documents of the time; Allison Drew's critical analysis of the background and trends of socialism and communism in South Africa up to the SACP's banning makes fascinating reading; libraries and archives.

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Book SynopsisReading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day. Defined in antiquity as an absolute or supreme type of power, sovereignty's history has been marked ever since by numerous moments of crisis and contestation through which its meaning has been redefined and reconfigured. Using extracts of key texts selected and analysed by leading contributors from the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Japan, Cyprus, Finland, France, Austria, Israel, and Italy, this volume examines these moments and how different societies have grappled with sovereignty through the ages. The book explores a diverse range of geographical and cultural contexts within which the issue of sovereignty became critical, including ancient China and medieval Islam. In addition, the book includes chapters that respond to the vital interplay between the development of the theory of sovereignty and such momentous historical events and developments as the birth of the demTrade ReviewReading Texts on Sovereignty provides a succinct and readable collection of essays on the concept of sovereignty spanning the not only western modernity, but also Greek and Roman antiquity as well as the Chinese and the Arab experience. It will be invaluable for anyone craving an historical contextualization of the contested concept of sovereignty. * Dimitris Vardoulakis, author of Spinoza, the Epicurean *This volume affords a panoramic view on the history of sovereignty in the western tradition. Its concise yet very useful chapters offer an excellent introduction to the complexities of this central concept in politics, law and religion. * Miguel Vatter, Professor of Politics, Flinders University, Australia *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Stella Achilleos and Antonis Balasopoulos (both University of Cyprus, Cyprus) 1. The Book of Lord Shang and the Origins of the State, Yuri Pines (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) 2. Aristotle on Sovereignty, Kazutaka Inamura (Waseda University, Japan) 3. Divided Sovereignty: Polybius and the Compound Constitution, Jed W. Atkins (Duke University, USA) and Carl E. Young (Hillsdale College, USA) 4. Reading Sovereignty in Augustus’ Res gestae, Dean Hammer (Franklin and Marshall College, USA) 5. Al-Farabi: The Sovereignty of the Philosopher King, Massimo Campanini? (University of Naples L’ Orientale, Italy) 6. Marsilius of Padua on Sovereignty, Vasileios Syros (Universities of Helsinki and Jyva¨skyla¨, Finland) 7. The King ‘Should Be’ Sovereign: Christine de Pizan and the Problem of Sovereignty in Fifteenth-Century France, Kate Forhan (University of Southern Maine, USA) 8. Jean Bodin’s République, Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute, University of London, UK) 9. Hugo Grotius: Absolutism, Contractualism, Resistance,Marco Barducci (Durham University, UK) 10. Shakespeare on Sovereignty, Indivisibility, and Popular Consent, Stella Achilleos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) 11. Sovereignty and the Separation of Powers on the Eve of the English Civil War: Henry Parker’s Observations and Charles’ Answer to the XIX Propositions, Michael Mendle (University of Alabama, USA) 12. Thomas Hobbes, Sovereign Representation, and the English Revolution, Glenn Burgess (University of Hull, UK) 13. John Locke and the Language of Sovereignty, Geoff Kemp (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 14. Rousseau’s Sovereignty as the General Will, David Lay Williams (De Paul University, USA) 15. Sovereignty in the American Founding, Michael Zuckert (University of Notre Dame, USA) 16. Thomas Paine: Reinventing Popular Sovereignty in an Age of Revolutions, Carine Lounissi (University of Rouen-Normandie, France) 17. Sovereignty and Political Obligation: T. H. Green’s Critique of John Austin, John Morrow (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 18. Divided Sovereignties: Lenin and Dual Power, Antonis Balasopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) 19. Carl Schmitt and the Sovereignty of Decision, Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyva¨skyla¨, Finland) 20. Arendt on Sovereignty, Shmuel Lederman (University of Haifa, Open University of Israel, Israel) 21. Foucault and Agamben on Sovereignty: Taking Life, Letting Live, or Making Survive, Carlo Salzani (Messerli Research Institute, Vienna, Austria) 22. Derrida on the ‘Slow and Differentiated’ Deconstruction of Sovereignty, James Martel (San Francisco State University, USA)

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Book SynopsisDenise McCoskey is Associate Professor of Classics at Miami University, Ohio. She has written extensively on the politics of race and gender in antiquity.Trade ReviewAn admirable compendium. * Classics for All *

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Book SynopsisMarxism has provided the ideological impetus to liberation movements, radical struggles and revolutions across the world. But in the 20th century, the emancipatory and democratic power of its thought has often been distorted and overridden by various Stalinist dictatorships which claimed to be acting in its name. A similar undermining of freedom of thought has been accomplished at an intellectual level; various schools have transformed Marxist thought in line with some of the most fashionable but gentrified forms of contemporary philosophy, shifting the focus from the democratic power of the masses and their ability to challenge the capitalist order to concentrate on superstar thinkers and elite theories.The War Against Marxism traces the war against Marxism which, paradoxically, has been conducted in the name of Marxism itself. As such it provides a fiery philosophical and polemical indictment of so-called Marxists' such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Jameson, Eagleton, MoTrade ReviewThis is a beautiful polemic against the Frankfurt School , Critical Theory and many of the most prominent left academics. It is hard hitting and a good antidote to people getting sucked into anti-Marxism via “Marxism” ... This book is an excellent weapon in the fight against the ideological counterrevolution and the re-establishment of Marxism! * A Marxist View of Current Events Blog *Tony McKenna delivers a vibrant collection of essays on an astonishingly wide variety of topics, from Critical Theory to pop culture, dissecting with sometimes fierce but always insightful polemics the output of figures as different as Louis Althusser and Stephen King. Enlightening and entertaining in equal measure, Mckenna’s book is a vigorous and strikingly original defense and revitalization of Marxism as a project of popular empowerment and social transformation. * Ishay Landa, Associate Professor of History, The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana, Israel *Tony McKenna is one of the most erudite but readable authors in contemporary social theory and has a proven track record of producing off-piste but relevant analyses of enduring products of popular culture. This volume consolidates his status as a refreshing voice of both theoretical sophistication and contemporary relevance for our increasingly crisis-torn century. * Sean Ledwith, Lecturer in History and Sociology, York College, UK *This is a book for anyone who’s wondered how the unwavering commitment to human freedom in Marx became the slick repartee of postmodern Marxists. It’s a book for people who’ve come to suspect that the reactionary utterances of some popular, left-wing intellectuals might be tied to the deeper fundamentalism of their initiatives. Prepare to have your idols tested. * Katie Terezakis, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA *[McKenna] carefully examines the texts of self-purported Marxists and shows in a razor-sharp analysis how the war against Marx’s methodology has been ragging in academia for almost a century now. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *This book is refreshing and long overdue. * Counterfire *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Why the Founding Fathers of the Frankfurt School should be considered anti-Marxist 2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles: A study of capitalist reification and the possibility of its overcoming 3. Against post-Marxism: How post-Marxism annuls class-based historicism and the possibility of revolutionary praxis 4. Reification and its consequences for modern life 5. Literary Theory and the loss of the historical totality 6. Stephen King’s IT and the proletariat as identical subject-object of the historical process 7. The retreat from class: The theoretical fundaments of Moishe Postone’s critique of Lukács 8. Revolution and counterrevolution in thought Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the fin de siècle, an era of powerful global movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through a series of biographical microhistories. From the first wave feminist Rose Summerfield and the working class radical John Dwyer, to the indigenous rights advocate David Unaipon and the poet Christopher Brennan, Hearn traces the transnational identities, philosophies, ideas and cultures that characterised this era. Examining the struggles and aspirations of fin de siècle lives; respect for the rights of women and indigenous peoples, the injustices and hardship inflicted on working men and women, and the ways in which they imagined a better world, this book examines the transformation and renewal brought about by fin de siècle ideas. It examines the distinctive characteristics of this great acceleration' of economic, technological and cultural forces that swept the globe at the turn of the 19th century both within an Australian context and on the world staTrade ReviewAt last, the Australian experience of the extraordinarily volatile period known as the fin de siècle has found its historian. Carl Schorske first explained the significance of the era, and offered a brilliant model for understanding it, in his Fin-De-Siècle Vienna of 1979. Mark Hearn picks up where Schorske left off, amplifying his biographic structure and building on his profound insights. Hearn, though, has a theatre that adds the missing piece to the fin de siècle puzzle: a settler colonial site that shows how imperial forces drove many of the political and cultural crises of these crucial decades. Hearn’s study includes women and Indigenous characters in with the more usual mix of male artists and European intellectuals. The result is an exemplary account for the twenty-first century. * Kate Fullagar, Professor of History, Australian Catholic University, Australia *Mark Hearn is the first historian to bring this important period in Australian cultural and political history – the 1890s – fully into the global history of modernity. Far from displaying an isolated colonial backwater, his study of seven emblematic lives of the fin de siècle gives us a unique insight into how leading Australian thinkers grappled with a modern world that was both accelerating and enervating. This is a fresh interpretation of a period that has long fascinated historians of Australia for its brew of nationalism, radicalism, utopianism and the occult, but it will interest anyone curious about how modern life reshaped imaginative possibilities at the same time as it generated new anxieties. This is a ground-breaking cultural history that invites us to rethink a formative era. * Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, The Australian National University, Australia *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Ends and Beginnings: Life and Mind at the Australian Fin de Siècle 1. The Bush Undertaker: Henry Lawson and the Stragglers of the Second Industrial Revolution 2. Rose Summerfield Imagines a New Woman 3. The Wanderer: Christopher Brennan’s Two Lives in Fin de Siècle Sydney 4. ‘A Modern Eve’: Vida Goldstein Stands for Parliament 5. ‘Some Disquieting Symptoms’: Alfred Deakin’s Nervous Breakdown 6. David Unaipon, ‘The Super-Aborigine’ 7. John Dwyer’s Family Stories Conclusion: Fin de Siècle Afterlife Endnotes Bibliography Index

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