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Lexington Books Radical Religion
Book SynopsisThe political Left has had a turbulent relationship with religion, from outright hostility to attempts to meld religious faith with progressivism. Confronted with contemporary social ills, the progressive Left continues to disagree about the role that religion should play, whether in understanding social challenges and solutions, or stimulating social critique and reform. Radical Religion presents valuable insights, from both religious and secular perspectives, for progressives today as they struggle to formulate a coherent agenda and effective strategies for social change. This book presents arguments from a diverse group of scholars, and offers a snapshot of contemporary, progressive thinking about religion.Trade ReviewIn this volume renowned scholars and emerging authorities of wide-ranging perspectives offer fresh insights on the rich relationship between religion and the Left. By turns inspiring and thought-provoking, these essays remind us how vital religious thought and spiritual commitment have been to the progressive tradition-and how indispensable they remain to its renewal. -- Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown UniversityThis book is strong evidence that progressives are far from bereft of challenging ideas, critical and self-critical analyses, and compelling visions of a more just and democratic society. It is a critical resource for people of good faith, secular and religious, who fight for social justice. It is a strong antidote to the superficial, mendacious, and ill-tempered public discourse that prevails today. It engages us at a profound nexus of religion and politics that can equip us with a more rooted and confident solidarity to face the difficult struggles ahead. -- Jim Sessions, President, Working America Education Fund and Executive Director, Interfaith Worker Justice of East TennesseeTable of Contents1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction Part 3 Part 1. Theoretical and Historical Frameworks Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Religion and Secular Progress in America Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Religion and the Common Weal Chapter 6 Chapter 3.After Religion: Progressive Politics and the Ethics of Modernity Part 7 Part 2. Bridging the Personal and the Political Chapter 8 Chapter 4. The Nonduality of Personal and Social Transformation: Why Religion and the Left Need Each Other Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Religious but not Spiritual: Creating a New Communion Part 10 Part 3. Confronting Religious Conservatism Chapter 11 Chapter 6. The Politics of God in the Christian Tradition Chapter 12 Chapter 7. Against the Theocrats Chapter 13 Chapter 8. 'New' Evangelicals and the Post-Political Horizons of Neoliberalism Chapter 14 Chapter 9. Prophet or Priest: The Politics of Rev. Jim Wallis Part 15 Part 4. Ideas in Context Chapter 16 Chapter 10. A Sociopolitical Critique of Ethno-Religious Chauvinism in Contemporary Arab Societies Chapter 17 Chapter 11. All These Atheists and Rebels: Reflections on the Explosion of the Jewish Prophetic in Our Time 18 About the Contributors
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Edinburgh University Press Modern Feminist Thought
Book SynopsisThis introduction provides a critical survey of the dominant trends in Anglo-American feminist thought since 1968.Trade Review! a good introduction to thesubject for a general reader. -- Aine Ni Leime ! a good introduction to thesubject for a general reader.Table of ContentsPart 1 Generating the second wave: liberal feminism - the origins of the second wave; marxist/socialist feminism - reconstucting male radicalism; radical feminism - redefining politics; Lesbian feminism - exploding "Heteroreality"; black feminism - reimaging "Woman" and "Equality". Part 2 Crisis in feminism?: crisis in feminism? - feminist debates in the eighties and nineties; sites of fissure - putting the politics of personal to the test; men in feminism - feminism and postmodernism; identity crisis? - "Post-feminism", the media and "Feminist Superstars".
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Edinburgh University Press Womens Rights as Multicultural Claims
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. The author contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Exclusion, Internalisation, Harm: Contesting Human Rights from Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives; 2. Decolonizing the Other's Rights: Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Right to Mediation; 3. Consent by Right: Protecting the Rights of Women Cross-Culturally; 4. Learning Right Reason: Religious Exemptions and Gender Inequality in Education; 5. Rights, Reason, Affectivity? Feminist Multiculturalism and the case of the Hijab; Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press Womens Rights as Multicultural Claims
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. The author contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Exclusion, Internalisation, Harm: Contesting Human Rights from Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives; 2. Decolonizing the Other's Rights: Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Right to Mediation; 3. Consent by Right: Protecting the Rights of Women Cross-Culturally; 4. Learning Right Reason: Religious Exemptions and Gender Inequality in Education; 5. Rights, Reason, Affectivity? Feminist Multiculturalism and the case of the Hijab; Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press Republican Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences; and articulates new theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink; Part 1: Classic Republicanism and Democracy; 1. The Tension Between Law and Politics in the Modern Republican Tradition, Marco Geuna, Associate Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan; 2. The Idea of a Kantian Republicanism, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main; 3. Impotence, Perspicuity, and a Government of Laws: Madison's Critique of Republican Legislation, Jack N. Rakove, W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University; Part 2: Democracy and Politics; 4. Political Republicanism, John P. McCormick, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago; 5. Alternative Conceptions of Republicanism: Legal Consequences, John Ferejohn, was Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and has been a regular visiting Professor at NYU Law School from 1993 to the present; 6. A Republican Conception of Justice, Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/M; 7. Legal Formations and Democratic Citizens in Republican Theory, Galya B. Ruffer, founder of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at the Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University and the Director of the International Studies Program; 8. Neorepublicanism and Global Justice: Extram rempublicam nulla iustitia?, Cecile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory at the University College London; Part 3: Democracy and Law; 9. A Republican Rule of Law?, Philipp Schink, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main; 10. Should Republicans Believe in Rights Based Constitutional Judicial Review?, Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science, UCL; 11. Republicanism and Transnational Democracy, Andreas Niederberger, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany); 12. Living without Freedom: The Rule of Law, James Bohman, Danforth I Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies at St Louis University; Part 4: Conclusion; 13. Two Concepts of Republican Law, Liberty and Politics, Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.
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Edinburgh University Press Politics of Dialogue
Book SynopsisContemporary democracy is in crisis. People believe less and less in a system of democratic institutions that can cope with today's social problems. The author sheds new light on this problem, using the ideas of M M Bakhtin and others to show that dialogue in democracy can transcend both antagonistic and consensual perspectives.
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Edinburgh University Press Hegels Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisA new edition of the first systematic reading of Hegel''s political philosophy. Elements of the Philosophy of Right is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important works in the history of political philosophy. This is the first book on the subject to take Hegel''s system of speculative philosophy seriously as an important component of any robust understanding of this text.
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Edinburgh University Press Hegels Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisA new and significantly expanded edition of the first systematic reading of Hegel's political philosophy.
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Edinburgh University Press The PostPolitical and Its Discontents
Book SynopsisDemocracy has been reduced to the consensual administration of economic necessity. How can we make sense of this form of depoliticisation? How does it manifest itself in different spheres of social life? And in what ways is it being challenged or subverted? This volume gives an overview of the literature on the post-political for beginners.
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Edinburgh University Press Solidarity Across Divides
Book SynopsisWhat divides and what unites an ethnically diverse citizenry? Do multicultural policies cause ethnic conflict or do they form the basis for wider loyalties? George Vasilev addresses these vexed questions. He argues against critics who claim that group representative measures are incompatible with solidarity. Instead, he explains how they provide the incentive structure needed for inter-ethnic cooperation. By looking beyond the representative institutions of the nation state, Vasilev shows us how NGOs, international institutions and opinion leaders are becoming increasingly important in cultivating interethnic openness.
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Edinburgh University Press History and Event
Book SynopsisNathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, he explores the technical details of both traditions'' historical sciences. He argues that their articulations of history and event affect how we approach political transformation and view the role of theoreticians in political practice. Coombs establishes the continuities and discontinuities between classical Marxism and Althusserian theory, bringing you new readings of Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Althusser, Badiou, Meillassoux and complexity theory.Trade Review"Coombs pays tribute to Marx as the master of historicization who challenged orthodoxies with rationalism. This absorbing study acknowledges the power of 'grand narratives' by considering how they are made to arise, and it shows us how crucial beauty, bravado and imagination are to a science of the event."-- Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol; "This book is a timely intervention in both classical and post-Althusserian Marxist philosophies. Drawing upon both traditions, Coombs makes a compelling case for a nuanced rather than combative understanding of the relationship between historical necessity and the contingency of events."-- Iain MacKenzie, Centre for Critical Thought, University of KentTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: History and Event in Marxist Dialectics; 1. Hegel's Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge; 2. Marx's Idea of Communist Transformation; 3. Lenin's Philosophy: A New Dialectics of Revolution?; Part II: Events and Historical Judgement after Althusser; 4. Althusser's Science: Naming the Epistemological Break; 5. Badiou's Decision: To Give Up Leadership, Somewhat; 6. Meillassoux's Politics: Speculative Justice; Part III: Suggestions about Where this Road Might Take us; 7. Afterword: Towards a Complex Science of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Secret Police and the Soviet System
Book SynopsisEven more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our complete understanding. In the last decade, the opening of non-Russian KGB archives, notably in Ukraine after 2015, has allowed scholars to explore state security organizations in ways not previously possible. Moving beyond well-known cases of high-profile espionage and repression, this study is the first to showcase research from a wide range of secret police archives in former Soviet republics and the countries of the former Soviet blocsome of which are rapidly closing or becoming inaccessible once again. Rather than focusing on Soviet leadership, The Secret Police and the Soviet System integrates the secret police into studies of information, technology, economics, art, and ideology. The result is a state-of-the-art portrait of one of the world's most notorious institutions, the legacies of w
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Spokesman Books Roads to Freedom
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Spokesman Books Soviets in Italy
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd The State of Freedom and Justice
Book SynopsisWe all want freedom, we all want justice, yet few have given thought to how such a state could be organised. The author, an original thinker, has taken a multi-disciplinary approach which has led to some surprising insights, rising above the current obsession of political analysis into left and right.Trade Review"The author's greatest source of hope rests on generating widespread support for Henry George's proposed shift from taxation to the economic rent of land as the source of public revenue. He takes the time to explain what this would accomplish as well as offering a plan for how it would be implemented." Edward J. Dodson, Senior Researcher, The Henry George Birthplace Archive and Historical Research CenterTable of ContentsCapitalism; Freedom, Justice and the Market; Origins of the State; Natural Law; Raising Revenue without Taxation; The Minimal State; Justice - Finally!; Life without the State; Money, Banking and the Trade Cycle; Heaven on Earth; Wither the State; Appendix: Budget for Tax Abolition.
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Saqi Books Political Islam
Book SynopsisDiscusses contemporary debates within political Islam. This book argues that the evolution of political Islamic movements is essentially contextual rather than ideological and therefore, Islamic movements are best understood individually within their own historical, socio-political and cultural setting.Table of ContentsContributors include Khaled Hroub, Tariq Ramadan, Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Abdullah Baabood, Youcef Bouandel, Murad Batal al-Shishani, Sara Silvestri, Ibrahim Moussawi, Roel Meijer, Camille Tawil, Tilde Rosmer and Kamal Helbawy.
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Politically Incorrect Press The Trump Revolution The Donalds Creative Destruction Deconstructed
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St Martin's Press Waco Rising
Book SynopsisNamed one of The New Yorker''s Best Books of 2023A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militiasIn 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the full story.Kevin Cook, who revealed the truth behind a mythic, misunderstood murder in his 2014 Kitty Genovese, finally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. He gives readers a taste of Koresh's deadly charisma and takes us behind the scenes at the Branch Davidians' compound, where the new Christ turned his followers into servants and sired seventeen children by a dozen wives. In vivid accounts packed with human drama, Cook harnesses never
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20thCentury Europe
Book SynopsisBringing together leading scholars from across the UK, North America and mainland Europe, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. With coverage of well-known regimes and some that are relatively underrepresented in the literature from right across the continent, it examines the impact felt on people's lives amidst political administrations characterised by some or all of the following: a one-party state, in which opposition or multiple parties were banned; a cult surrounding the leader; the censorship of the press and other publications; the widespread use of propaganda and political persuasion; and the threat or use of force by the regime and its agents.The chapters investigate crucial questions in relation to life under dictatorships as follows: What was the impact of censorship on access to news or entertainment? How was leisure time conducted? What was the impact of the regime on working Trade ReviewLisa Pine’s latest edited volume will prove to be invaluable for scholars and students interested in the history of everyday life in dictatorships in Western and Eastern Europe. The transnational, comparative approach illuminates the diverse responses of ordinary citizens to these regimes, and the ways in which individuals conformed to, accommodated or evaded state control. With nuanced analysis of daily life in diverse societies, the chapters in this cohesive volume offer an extraordinary glimpse into the social and cultural history of coercion, consent, and dissent in some of the most violent regimes of the twentieth century. * Jason Crouthamel, Professor of History, Grand Valley State University, USA *This is an important book. Lisa Pine has assembled a fine team of historians to recreate the ebb and flow of daily life in such dictatorships as Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Salazar's Portugal, or Ceausescu’s Romania. Packed with fascinating material and drawing on a wide array of sources, the chapters included here demonstrate how ordinary people built love-hate relationships with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, both at the left and the right of the political spectrum, which kept them under strict surveillance and constantly deprived them of many personal and collective rights. This is an essential reading for all those interested in the history and politics of twentieth-century Europe. * Marius Turda, Professor, Oxford Brookes University, UK *Wide rangeing and ably constructed, this important collection provides multiple insights not only on the character of dictatorships, but also on social change in twentieth century Europe. The inclusion of Communism and Fascism invites readers to important comparisons. As Lisa Pine notes in her helpful conclusion, key elements included the length of the regime. * ?Jeremy Black, author of A History of Germany *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK) 1. Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Kate Ferris (University of St Andrews, UK) 2. Daily Life in Hitler’s Germany, Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK) 3. Life in Franco’s Spain, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez (Trent University, Canada) 4. Salazar’s Portugal: Living ‘By Habit’ in an Authoritarian Regime, António Costa Pinto (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Duncan Simpson (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 5. Transnational Totalitarianism and the Building of a New Public Consciousness in Karlis Ulmanis’s Latvia, Jordan T. Kuck (Brevard College, USA) 6. Everyday Life in the Soviet Union under Stalin, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA) 7. Life in Ceau?escu’s Romania, Dennis Deletant (Georgetown University, USA) 8. Between Barbed Wire and Country Garden Idyll: Dictatorship and Everyday Life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Stefan Wolle (GDR Museum, Germany) Conclusion, Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Young Marx
Book SynopsisIn 2011 Richard became the first playwright to win the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for two plays, The Heretic and One Man, Two Guvnors. The New York production of One Man, Two Guvnors was awarded the 2012 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play. His recent credits include Kiss Me (Hampstead), The Nap (Sheffield Crucible), Great Britain (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham: The Musical (Adelphi Theatre) and Pitcairn (Chichester Minerva Theatre/Shakespeare's Globe). Richard's other work includes Under the Whaleback (Royal Court. George Devine Award 2002), The Heretic (The Royal Court. Evening Standard Best New Play 2011), Honeymoon Suite (Pearson Play of the Year), Harvest (Critic's Circle Best New Play), The House of Games (from David Mamet's film), a new version of Moliere's The Hypochondriac, The Big Fellah (Out of Joint), England People Very Nice (National Theatre), The Mentalists (National Theatre), The English Game (Headlong), Up on Roof and Pub QTrade ReviewRichard Bean is a popular writer who has maintained his intellectual integrity while entertaining theatregoers. * British Theatre Guide *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Nation in Crisis
Book SynopsisSince the 2007-8 financial crisis and its aftershocks, international capitalism has once again been in crisis. The crisis has been particularly marked in the UK and its outcome is currently unclear. Based upon a wealth of sources, from newspapers, journals, government, political party and polling organisation publications, as well as archival and secondary material, Neville Kirk examines the systemic crisis facing the nations of the UK. The book traces the crisis from the period following the 2016 EU referendum up to 2022, a period during which the crisis intensified and became more widespread. Kirk covers the elections of 2017 and 2019, political fragmentation, Scottish nationalism, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, continuing economic problems and conflicts around class, gender, race and nation. Finally, the book considers competing pathways out of the current impasse. Through his thorough examination of the UK's main political parties and players, Kirk offers the reader a new and orTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One - A Political Earthquake: The 2017 General Election and its Aftershocks Chapter Two - The Brexit Crisis, 2018-2019 Chapter Three - The Triumphs, Trials and Troubles of Boris Johnson, 2019-2021 Chapter Four - Scotland: Another Way is possible? Chapter Five: To the Present Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Nation in Crisis
Book SynopsisSince the 2007-8 financial crisis and its aftershocks, international capitalism has once again been in crisis. The crisis has been particularly marked in the UK and its outcome is currently unclear. Based upon a wealth of sources, from newspapers, journals, government, political party and polling organisation publications, as well as archival and secondary material, Neville Kirk examines the systemic crisis facing the nations of the UK. The book traces the crisis from the period following the 2016 EU referendum up to 2022, a period during which the crisis intensified and became more widespread. Kirk covers the elections of 2017 and 2019, political fragmentation, Scottish nationalism, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, continuing economic problems and conflicts around class, gender, race and nation. Finally, the book considers competing pathways out of the current impasse. Through his thorough examination of the UK's main political parties and players, Kirk offers the reader a new and orTrade ReviewNeville has been an important and leading voice in analysing the state of our society and this work is an important contribution to the permacrisis he describes. For all of us there has to be a debate about how we create the circumstances to change the political landscape and produce the roadmap that offers hope for our communities that there is a better alternative. Understanding how we got here is an essential part of this, importantly Neville presents a critical analysis of our times. -- Ian Blackford, MP for Ross, Skye and LochaberProfessor Kirk’s reputation as a leading historian of nineteenth century politics is based on meticulous examination of primary sources and sharp theoretical insight. He brings the same qualities to this important book. Unlike his previous work Professor Kirk’s subject here is contemporary British politics. Scholars and general readers alike will find his insights both compelling and convincing. They will find he has something new to say; you can’t ask for more than that. -- Paul Pickering, Director of the Australian Studies Institute and Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University, AUSNeville Kirk’s sharp, analytical narrative brings much-needed order to the political chaos of recent years, tracking the twists and turns of political elites with consummate skill. Lucidly written and persuasively argued, this book lays bare the multi-faceted crisis that confronts Britain still. -- Peter Gurney, Professor of History, University of Essex, UKThis clear, careful and considered account of political turmoil in the UK since 2017 is an essential read for anyone trying to understand the background to the current frenzy that marks contemporary politics -- Sheila RowbothamTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One - A Political Earthquake: The 2017 General Election and its Aftershocks Chapter Two - The Brexit Crisis, 2018-2019 Chapter Three - The Triumphs, Trials and Troubles of Boris Johnson, 2019-2021 Chapter Four - Scotland: Another Way is possible? Chapter Five: To the Present Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press The Dilemma of Authoritarian Local Governance in
Book SynopsisExamines how centralised authoritarian regimes upgrade their system of local governance
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Govan Mbeki
Book SynopsisThis biography of Govan Mbeki (1910-2001), activist and intellectual, goes beyond the narrative details of his long life. Drawing on lengthy interviews with 'Oom Gov', it analyses his thinking, expressed in his writings over 50 years.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Good capitalism bad capitalism
Book SynopsisWritten by prominent economist, Raymond Parsons, together with Ali Parry, this book offers a balanced and absorbing analysis of what various institutions and individuals have (and have not) done to eradicate the legacy of apartheid and bring South Africa to where it is today.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Libertarian Anarchy
Book SynopsisPresents a perspective on political philosophy, arguing against the conventional political philosophy pieties and defending a specific political position, which is identified as libertarian anarchy. This book includes a history of the concept of anarchy, and an examination of the possibility of anarchic societies.Trade Review‘In Libertarian Anarchy Gerard Casey presents a modern, clear and compelling case for anarcho-capitalism. Any lover of human freedom should read this book that very probably will set the agenda of the philosophical and political discussions of the next decades.' -- Jesús Huerta de Soto, Professor of Political Economy at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain‘Gerard Casey has written a truly astonishing book, one that relentlessly dismantles some of the most deeply embedded presuppositions in political philosophy. From now on, this will be the first book I use to persuade someone who insists on the vast benefits the state provides. A lasting and vastly significant addition to the literature.' -- Thomas Woods, Senior Fellow at Ludwig von Mises Institute, USA and New York Times bestselling authorCasey does an admirable job of representing the philosophical case for libertarian anarchism. -- Alex Sager * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *Table of Contents1. Death and Taxes: Liberty under attack; 2. Forms of anarchism: Liberty regained; 3. Law without Orders; 4. Why hasn't it been done before?; 5. Making the world safe from democracy; 6. Constitutions of no authority; Further Reading; Index.
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Little, Brown & Company E Pluribus One Rediscovering Our Founders Vision
Book SynopsisAward-winning author and journalist Sophia Nelson explains what Americans need to do to unify our country and become a great nation again.
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Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Turkey in Conflict
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on ethnic relations, Islam and neoliberalism have emerged in Turkey since the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. Placing the period within its historical and contemporary context, Tahir Abbas argues that what it is to be ethnically, religiously and culturally Turkish has been transformed.
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Edinburgh University Press Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa
Book SynopsisFocusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance.
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Edinburgh University Press Raymond Arons Philosophy of Political
Book SynopsisThis book shines a light on Raymond Aron and his work on war and peace, ideological critique, the philosophy of history, international relations and political economy. It discusses Aaron's political legacy and argues that a number of his critiques and theories can help us address many of the problems and conflicts of the 21st century.
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Edinburgh University Press Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions
Book SynopsisIrish Drama and the Other Revolutions 'shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s.
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Edinburgh University Press Neoliberalism and Political Theology
Book SynopsisCombining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term 'neoliberalism' really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood.
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Edinburgh University Press Salafi Social and Political Movements
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the history of the rise and spread of Salafism during the 20th century as a global Islamic reform movement. It also explains Salafi tools of methodological reasoning: traditionally used to justify highly conservative positions, they now appear equally effective in defending more liberal life choices.Trade Review"This is great update on Salafism that provides crucial new insights into the nature of Salafism and even of Islam in general to politics and the difficult choices of combining religious purity with political participation." -Roel Meijer, Associate Professor of Islam Studies, Radboud University
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Rowman & Littlefield Un-American: The Fake Patriotism of Donald J.
Book SynopsisUn-American? President Donald J. Trump has been called many names, but how can this term apply to a candidate and president whose slogan is “make America great again?” How can such a term apply to the “America First” president? In this book, John J. Pitney Jr., one of America’s most incisive conservative commentators exposes a core irony of Trump’s presidency: that a man who is quick to question the patriotism of his critics is himself deeply unpatriotic. Pitney argues that real Americanism is about ideas and ideals: truth, equality, the rule of law, patriotic service, and the hope that America can serve as an example to the rest of the world. By words and actions, Trump has disparaged all of these things. Through an examination of his record, this book tells how Trump subverts genuine American greatness.
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Rowman & Littlefield Central and East European Politics: Changes and
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Basic Books The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James
Book SynopsisAn incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nationIn the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal falling out. Together they helped bring the Constitution into being, yet soon after the new republic was born they broke over the meaning of its founding document. Hamilton emphasized economic growth, Madison the importance of republican principles.Jay Cost is the first to argue that both men were right--and that their quarrel reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of the American experiment. He shows that each man in his own way came to accept corruption as a necessary cost of growth. The Price of Greatness reveals the trade-off that made the United States the richest nation in human history, and that continues to fracture our politics to this day.
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Black Rose Books The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism,
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society
Book SynopsisThe view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But neoliberal capitalism's flaws are increasingly dangerous in Western countries and globally as corporations exert growing influence on governments, as the endless pursuit of profits pushes our climate to the breaking point and as far-right politics dominate the media. Solutions are needed. Fast.In We Can Do Better, David Camfield lays out a theoretical basis for political and social change that fuses critical Marxism with insights from anti-racist queer feminism. This reconstructed historical materialism treats capitalism and class as inextricably interwoven with gender, race and sexuality. After discussing today's most influential social theories, Camfield uses this theory to analyze a range of issues that face our world today, including climate change, growing social insecurity and the persistence of sexism and racism. Camfield argues that the key to achieving change for the better is social struggle, and he offers ideas about moving from social theory to social action.
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PM Press Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist
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American University in Cairo Press Life Is More Beautiful Than Paradise: A
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PM Press Maoism And The Chinese Revolution: A Critical
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PM Press Kropotkin: The Politics of Community
Book SynopsisBrian Morris reaffirms, with an attitude of critical sympathy, the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin as a political and moral philosopher and as a pioneering social ecologist.
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PM Press Beyond Crisis: After the Collapse of
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection reflect on the experience of the crisis in Greece and its political implications for the whole world.
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. The Myth of Black Capitalism: New Edition
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Monthly Review Press Shadows of the Enlightenment
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left:
Book SynopsisWhat does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover wisdom from the past. In so doing, we have the opportunity to plot a new way forward. The authors of this edited collection do just this: putting forward a diversity of approaches and issues to strategize for the work that awaits us in the 2020s, particularly in the struggle against capitalism, climate change and the far right.Working within five major thematic areas, the contributors examine how to engage working class people in anti-capitalist struggles, undermine reactionary currents of ethno-nationalism while supporting anti-colonial movements, strategically build power inside and outside the state apparatus, demand new forms of resistance to address environmental crises, and effectively promote solidarity and ecological responsibility. This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.
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Verso Books Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Book SynopsisIn this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed antidote against 'Third Way' attempts to overcome the antagonism between Left and Right.Trade ReviewA brilliant tour de force of scholarship and argument. * Marxism Today *
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Gibson Square Books Ltd Time to Emigrate?: Pre- and Post-Brexit Britain
A gripping analysis of pre- and post-Brexit Britain
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