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Penguin Books Ltd The Portable Hannah Arendt Penquin Classics
Book SynopsisA collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day—Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil. The Portable Hannah Arendt offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Additionally, this volume incluTable of ContentsThe Portable Hannah ArendtEditor's IntroductionPrincipal DatesBibliographical NotesAcknowledgmentsI. Overview: What Remains?What Remains? The Language Remains: A Conversation with Günter GausII. Stateless PersonsThat "Infinitely Complex Red-tape Exixtence"From a Letter to Karl JaspersThe Perplexities of the RIghts of ManThe Jewish Army-The Beginning of a Jewish Politics?Jewess and Shlemihl (1771-1795)Writing Rahel Varnhagen. From a Letter to Karl JaspersIII. TotalitarianismThe Jews and SocietyExpansionTotal DominationOrganized Guilt and Universal ResponsibilityA Reply to Eric VoegelinIV. The Vita ActivaLabor, Work, ActionThe Public and the Private RealmReflections on Little RockThe Social QuestionThe Concept of History: Ancient and ModernV. Banality and Conscience: The Eichmann Trial and its ImplicationsFrom Eichmann in JerusalemAn Expert on the Jewish QuestionThe Final Solution: KillingThe Wannasee Conference, or Pontious PilateExecusionEpiloguePostscriptHoles of Oblivion: The Eichmann Trial and Totalitarianism. From a Letter to Mary McCarthyA Daughter of Out PeopleA Response to Gershom ScholemFrom The Life of the Mind (volume 1)The Answer of SocratesThe Two-in-OneVI. RevolutionRosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)What Is Freedom?What Is Authority?The Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost TreasureVII. Of Truth and TrapsHeidegger the FoxTruth and PoliticsPermissions
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Ebury Publishing The Project
Book SynopsisDavid A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting for his coverage of the 2020 presidential election.
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Watkins Media Limited When the Music's Over: Intervention, Aid and
Book SynopsisIn 1993, Gareth Owen volunteered to go to Somalia with an Irish aid agency. Located in a remote desert outpost, he encountered the brutality of conflict and famine and experienced the hardships and struggles of an extraordinary race of desert warriors. He rubbed shoulders with the French Foreign Legion and Greek Special Forces and worked alongside a band of international aid workers striving to feed the Somali people. And as the country began to recover, he found himself losing connection with the Somalis as their resentment towards the international presence grew and violent confrontation erupted. In this accessible and engaging memoir, Owen, now Humanitarian Director at Save the Children UK, recounts the entanglement of violence and humanity at the heart of this notorious peacekeeping operation. This is a story of human resilience and contradictory friendships, of loyalty, courage and extraordinary endeavour - but mostly it is a story about the meaning of human connection in desperate circumstances. Part memoir, part history and part politics, When the Music's Over sees beyond the criticism of humanitarian intervention and challenges us to consider the enduring importance of international solidarity in a world where notions of common humanity and universal peace are increasingly being abandoned.Trade Review"Breaks through the hidden silences that still surround discussion concerning interventions in theatres of war. Gareth Owen writes with a honesty, sensitivity and critical self-reflection, which is often missing in books of this kind. In doing so, he brings a new kind of tragic and yet learned music that puts the human back into the humanitarian.""Owen has rendered the intrinsic dilemmas, moral ambiguities and political hazards of humanitarianism in a powerful and poignant personal memoir of his time in Somalia."
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Watkins Media Limited Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for
Book SynopsisAnalysing a wide range of online communities and subcultures, Alice Capelle shows how an unprecedented backlash against women is being orchestrated online. Covering everything from the reactionary politics of the "manosphere" to hookup culture, traditional feminity, the politics of sexual liberation and liberal-friendly lifestyle content, Collapse Feminism shows how the future of feminism is being determined in these online spaces, and what this means for women in the twenty-first century. As conservative and anti-feminist political groups grow in power and popularity online and in the real world, it is urgent that we collectively reject political ideas that harm people of all genders, and instead work to create a freer, fairer and more creative future for all.Trade Review"A breezy, accessible, and non-fatalistic exploration of feminism in the "end times", rooted in a deep appreciation for and knowledge of contemporary digital cultures."
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Profile Books Ltd Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas
Book Synopsis'Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read' Guardian 'Incredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' Irish Times Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, Confronting Leviathan explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics - from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, and from revolution to lock down. While explaining the most important and often-cited ideas of thinkers such as Constant, De Tocqueville, Marx and Engels, Hayek, MacKinnon and Fukuyama, David Runciman shows how crises - revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics - generated these new ways of political thinking. This is a history of ideas to help make sense of what's happening today.Trade ReviewBracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read -- Mark Mazower * Guardian *Incredibly timely ... wonderful elegance and clarity through which complex ideas are presented ... That the book helps make thinking about the state enjoyable is just the least of its many exceptional qualities -- Paschal Donohoe * Irish Times *A brilliant introduction for anyone looking to engage with political debates beyond the headlines ... Excellent -- Joshua Pugh Ginn * Herald *A studiously accessible work * Times Higher Education *Praise for How Democracy Ends: Presented in pellucid prose free of the jargon of academic political science, it is a strikingly readable and richly learned contribution to understanding the world today...one of the most luminously intelligent books on politics to have been published for many years. -- John Gray * New Statesman *Full of intriguing new lines of thought -- Gideon Rachman * FT *Clear-headed, compact and timely * Irish Times *Refreshingly free of received and rehearsed wisdoms, Runciman doesn't tiptoe around sacred cows and invites us to take part in that most adult way of thinking: to examine contradictory ideas in tandem and ponder what the dissonance amounts to. . . . [H]e argues lucidly, persuasively, even exhilaratingly at times. The nightly news will never appear exactly the same again * Australian *Refreshingly, rather than a knicker-twisting diatribe about Trump and Brexit, Runciman offers a thoughtful analysis about what popular democracy means, and its alternatives -- Katrina Gulliver * Spectator *
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Penguin Books Ltd Inventing the Individual The Origins of Western
Book SynopsisFrom Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today''Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written ... Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has explained us to ourselves'' SpectatorThis ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west. The invention of a new, equal social role, the individual, gradually displaced the claims of family, tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation. Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and government are built, and argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs emerged much earlier than we think. The roots of liberalism - belief in individTrade ReviewMagisterial, timeless, beautifully written ... Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has explained us to ourselves * Spectator *One of the most stimulating books of political theory to have appeared in many years ... a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian thinking -- John Gray * Literary Review *A brave, brilliant and beautifully written defence of the western tradition -- Paul Lay * History Today *Thoroughly interesting and fundamentally convincing ... admirably nuanced ... formidable ... Inventing the Individual is written with effortless lucidity -- Jeffrey Collins * TLS *An engrossing book of ideas ... illuminating, beautifully written and rigorously argued -- Kenan Malik * Independent *A most impressive work of philosophical history -- Robert Skidelsky
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Penguin Books Ltd Utopia
Book Synopsis''It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia''s most striking aspects is its contemporaniety'' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller''s account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller describes the island, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the practices of Europe. How can the philosopher reform his society? In his discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood.Translated and introduced by Dominic Baker-Smith
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Penguin Books Ltd Utopia
Book SynopsisIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller''s account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood.
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Spokesman Books Challenging Nuclearism Spokesman 147
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd War and Political Theory
Book SynopsisIn a world that continues to be riven by armed conflict, the fundamental moral and political questions raised by warfare are as important as ever. Under what circumstances are we justified in going to war? Can conflicts be waged in a ‘moral’ way? Is war an inevitable feature of a world driven by power politics? What are the new ethical challenges raised by new weapons and technology, from drones to swarming attack robots? This book is an engaging and up-to-date examination of these questions and more, penned by a foremost expert in the field. Using many historical cases, it examines all the core disputes and doctrines, ranging from realism to pacifism, from just war theory and international law, to feminism and the democratic peace thesis. Its scope stretches from the primordial causes and perennial drivers of war to the cyber-centric space-age future of armed conflict in the 21st century. War and Political Theory is essential reading for anyone, whether advanced expert or undergraduate, who wants to understand the pressing empirical realities and theoretical issues, historical and contemporary, associated with armed conflict.Trade Review"War and Political Theory is an essential work that brilliantly elucidates the core principles shaping our understanding of the ethics and politics of conflicts. With keen theoretical analysis and vivid examples, Orend unpacks the most complex issues in present and future warfare."Shannon E. French, Case Western Reserve University"By starting with trying to understand the ontology of war - what we actually mean by this value-laden term - Orend sets up a useful foundation from which to develop some rich analysis of the ethical challenges posed by both the changing character of war and its enduring nature. The different perspectives offered by the familiar lenses of realism, pacifism and the just war theory are employed to structure the analysis and unpack those ethical challenges. Throughout, Orend’s deep knowledge of the literature and debates, both internal to each tradition and between them, illuminates the subject and informs the reader."David Whetham, King’s College London"I do recommend [this book]. Its accessible style . . . clear writing, interdisciplinary nature, stock of detailed examples and choice of topics will make it a useful introduction or textbook for classes concerned with normative approaches to war."Ethics"War and Political Theory exhibits relative impartiality, in-depth subject-matter expertise, and a daring spirit of discovery that make reading the book a worthwhile investment of time and inquiry."Naval War College Review"The book is an excellent read for anyone interested in the topic."The Journal of Moral Philosophy
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Pan Macmillan The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings
Book SynopsisDesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition contains the most salient extracts from Marx's great work, selected and introduced by Hugh Griffith.Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, first printed just before the French revolution of 1848, is his most accessible and famous work. In his powerful call to arms, Marx expounds his famous theory that class struggle is the real determinant of historical change. Next in this volume comes his treatise, Wages, Price and Profit, written in 1865, which serves as an accessible introduction to the ideas which Marx went on to develop in Capital, his masterful, multi-volume analysis of how the world was irreversibly changed by the industrial revolution. Whilst old-style Marxism is now dead and buried, today's conflicts within capitalism are as sharp as ever and Marx’s brilliant, painstaking writings remain incredibly relevant.
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Bonnier Books Ltd Equality
Book Synopsis'This fascinating and refreshing book is more necessary than ever. A must-read' Thomas Piketty'Fascinating' - New York TimesWINNER OF THE 2024 JACQUES BARZUN PRIZE IN CULTURAL HISTORY Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly sceptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?Darrin M. McMahon's Equality is the definitive intellectual history, tracing equality's global origins and spread from the dawn of humanity through the Enlightenment to today. Equality has been reimagined continually, in the great world religions and the politics of the ancient world, by revolutionaries and socialists, Nazis and fascists, and post-war reformers and activists. A magisterial exploration of why equality matters and why we continue to reimagine it, Equality offers all the tools to rethink equality anew for our own age.
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Verso Books Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western
Book SynopsisThe age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void. The major parties have become so disconnected from society that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form.First published in 2013, Ruling the Void presciently observed that the widening gap between citizens and their political leaders posed a crisis of legitimacy for the governing class, and was fuelling populist mobilizations against it. Europe's political elites had remodelled themselves as a homogeneous professional class, withdrawing into state institutions that offer relative stability in a world of fickle voters. Meanwhile, non-democratic agencies and practices proliferated - not least among them the European Union itself. Mair weighs the impact of these changes, and offers an authoritative assessment of the prospects for popular political representation today, not only in the varied democracies of Britain and the EU but throughout the developed world.With a new Introduction by Chris Bickerton, author of The European Union: A Citizen's Guide.Trade ReviewA deep and prophetic analysis. -- John McDermott * Financial Times *So original, perfectly crafted, accurate and true that you can't get it out of your head. -- Peter Oborne * Telegraph *A canary in the coalmine that pointed to the real dangers of democratic decline before they were widely acknowledged. -- Anne Applebaum * Guardian *Essential reading for anyone concerned with twenty-first century politics. -- Wolfgang Streeck * New Left Review *Mair's brilliance as a political scientist comes through clearly. The evidence he marshals is overwhelming. -- Jan-Werner Müller * London Review of Books *
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Granta Books The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the
Book Synopsis'As British official records are still "going missing", the significance of Cobain's work only increases' David Olusoga, author of Black and British 'In an astonishing book, the writer Ian Cobain reveals the mass destruction of records and archives, and the false memory it has left us with' Andrew Marr In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about what they choose to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture and its past. Ian Cobain reveals how key moments in British history since the end of WWII have been manipulated by these official secrets. We follow the decades-long attempts to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor, GCHQ. We learn how a series of astonishing wars were fought during the 1960s and 1970s remained unreported. He also tells of the government's hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles, and reveals the state's peacetime surveillance techniques, not to mention its cynical manipulation of the criminal justice system and 'freedom of information'. Drawing on previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History Thieves is a gripping story of how a complex bureaucratic machine has been created by the British state, allowing governments to evade accountability and bury their secrets. 'An engrossing account of how government officials burned the records of imperial rule as the British empire came to an end' Book of the Week, Guardian 'An important book which deserves to change the way we see our recent past...' Daily MailTrade ReviewThis important and highly readable book proves that, in a so-called age of transparency, official secrecy is actually increasing - in government and the armed forces, in the courts and in Whitehall and the Security Services. Censorship is often imposed to hide embarrassment, but also to prevent accountability for malfeasance and illegality, and to distort deliberately the historical record. There is a new establishment at work, and it preens itself just like the old, possessing the power to suppress. Our only weapon against those Orwell used to call "the striped-trousered ones who rule" is to expose and deride them - a job Ian Cobain does most effectively -- Geoffrey Robertson QCA meticulously researched, eye-opening triumph. Essential reading in the age of Snowden and Assange -- Charles Cumming, author * A Divided Spy *Cobain's excellent book exposes the single most significant catastrophe of the 'War on Terror'. While the rebirth of torture has grabbed many headlines, the most dangerous fruit of the atmosphere of fear has been an industry of secrecy. Cobain teaches us both the history of this secretive snooping, and how it imperils us all today -- Clive Stafford SmithAs one would expect from the pen of an experienced investigative journalist, this is a "good read", thought-provoking throughout, frequently shocking, but sometimes amusing in its exploration of the more bizarre attempts of the powers to keep us in the dark... Cobain's book, I think, will open many eyes -- Mandy Banton * Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs *As British official records are still "going missing", the significance of Cobain's work only increases -- David Olusoga * Guardian *
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Watkins Media Limited Suburban Socialism
Book SynopsisIn December 2019, Oly Durose lost by over 25,000 votes as the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brentwood & Ongar. Revealing what it’s like to stand on a socialist platform in one of the safest Conservative seats in the UK, this book makes the case for socialism in the suburbs, unveils the challenges of its electoral realisation, and proposes a strategic revolution required to win. Suburban Socialism asks what it would be like to bring white picket fences under collective control instead. To convince suburbanites of this radical alternative inside the electoral arena, this book argues that we must revolutionise our strategy outside of it. From the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution to the shockwaves of the metropolitan youthquake, socialism has predominantly been framed as an urban struggle. Identifying the possibilities for suburban resistance, this book offers a more geographically inclusive invitation to the socialist struggle, revealing why the suburban struggle is global in scale. Turning a suburb that shares from a hopeless fantasy into an electoral reality, Suburban Socialism illustrates why the path to socialism around the world is through the heterogenous suburban terrain.Trade Review"As a Labour parliamentary hopeful's memoir of 2019 and a thoughtful reflection on class, place and comfort, Suburban Socialism will undoubtedly provoke debate in the labour movement and challenge perceptions that vast swathes of our country remain irrevocably immune to the offer of a non-capitalist world.""Suburban Socialism is a thoughtful, engaging and original despatch from the neglected ground of suburbia, and a roadmap for how the left in Britain and beyond can meet our urgent present and future challenges."“If there is any redemption for the suburbs, it is in this imaginative and stereotype-shattering account. Oly Durose’s work is a fierce companion for those ready to wage class warfare in the suburbs and against surburbia."“Out of tough and tender experiences of an election candidate in a constituency with a political mountain to climb, comes a stimulating economic and political analysis of suburbia that creates a Suburban Manifesto to rise to this challenge.”"In Britain and North America, the overwhelming majority of people live in suburbs — so if we are to have socialism, it will be suburban or not at all. With examples from Essex to Nevada, Oly Durose outlines some of the starting points to turn the outskirts red.""A one-off mix of practical campaigning and visionary theorising, a hustings war story and a comprehensive critique of 'suburban capitalism' that are equally down-to-earth and accessible.""Reading about endangered species is always a challenge: a mixture of despair and hope tinged with a belief that goes beyond immediate reality. Oly Durose may not be the David Attenborough of electioneering, but this book is flavoured with the same kind of inspiring feeling."“The assumptions we have about class, and the frameworks that have been adopted to conceptualise it are outdated. Oly has analysed emerging economic and social dynamics from first principles, and by burnishing mainstream misconceptions he has provided an account of socialism’s relevance and popularity in suburbia.”“This sharply observed analysis grounded in theory offers fascinating insight into what goes on politically on the fringes of our capital, and sets out the politics we all need in the face of an era where glib phrases like ‘levelling up’ are the order of the day. A warmly recommended cautionary tale for our times”.“A convincing and forceful case for radical change in the outskirts.”
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Pan Macmillan India Imperial Games in Tibet
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MIT Press Coming Clean
Book SynopsisWhat has gone wrong with the left—and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds.Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its “wokeness.” In Coming Clean, Eric Heinze rejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the left’s own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a century—Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the Kim dynasty in North Korea. Criticisms of Western wrongdoing are certainly important, yet Heinze explains that leftists have rarely engaged in the kinds of open and public self-scruti
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Waste Land
Book SynopsisWe are entering a new era of global cataclysm, with the world facing a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of empire, and countless other dangers. In Waste Land, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and author of over twenty books on world affairs, explains incisively how we got here and where we are going. As in much of his work, Kaplan looks to history, literature, politics and philosophy to interpret our world, drawing parallels between today's challenges and those of Germany's interwar Weimar Republic. Weimar faced myriad crises inextricably bound up with international systems, and its emergency became a global one. Today, too, every disaster in one country could spiral across the world, given the singular dilemmas of our centurypandemics, recession, urbanisation, mass migration, destabilisation under large-scale democracy and great power conflicts, and digital media's intimate bonds. Could stability and historic liberalism, rather than mass democracy per se, save world populations from anarchic breakdown? Waste Land is a bracing glimpse into a future defined by twenty-firstcentury technology, but remarkably resonant with the past. The situation may be spiralling out of our controlunless our leaders act first.
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Taylor & Francis The Political Unconscious
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jameson was actually writing the book, in the mid to late seventies, there was a major reaction against deconstruction and poststructuralism. As one of the most significant literary theorists, Jameson found himself in the unenviable position of wanting to defend his intellectual past yet keep an eye on the future. With this book he carried it off beautifully. A landmark publication, The Political Unconscious takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.century.Trade Review'Every now and then a book appears which is literally ahead of its time ...The Political Unconscious is such a book ... it sets new standards of what a classic work is.' - Slavoj Zizek
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University of Wales Press The Political Thought of Aneurin Bevan
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Penguin Books Ltd Hegemony or Survival
Book Synopsis''One of the radical heroes of our age. A towering intellect'' GuardianHegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky''s essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world''s foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America''s pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow.From the funding of repressive regimes to the current ''war on terror'', from the toppling of governments opposing its beliefs to the invasion of Iraq, America pursues its global strategy no matter what the cost. With the rigour and insight that have made him our most important unraveller of accredited lies, Noam Chomsky reveals the truth and the true motives behind America''s quest for dominance - and seeks also to show how the world may yet step back from the brink.''A devastating history of American foreign policy since 1945 as well as a dissection of the current war on
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Penguin Books Ltd Upheaval
Book Synopsis''A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis'' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, at a time when crises are erupting around the world, he explores what makes certain nations resilient, and reveals the factors that influence how nations and individuals can respond to enormous challenges. In a riveting journey into the recent past, he traces how six distinctive modern nations - Finland, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Australia - have survived defining catastrophes, and identifies patterns in their recovery. Looking ahead, he investigates the risk that the United States and other countries, faced by grave threat, are set on a course towards catastrophe. Adding a rich psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology and anthropology that underpin all of Diamond''s writing, Upheaval is epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet.''Fascinating ... I finished the book even more optimistic about our ability to solve problems than I started'' BILL GATES''Jared Diamond does it again: another rich, original and fascinating chapter in the human saga - with vital lessons for our difficult times'' STEVEN PINKERTrade ReviewFascinating... I'm a big fan of everything Jared has written, and his latest is no exception. ... I finished the book even more optimistic about our ability to solve problems than I started. -- Bill Gates, Summer Reading Recommendations 2019Upheaval is bold, wide-ranging and original ... probes large and important questions. Unlike most social scientists, Diamond can write invigorating prose that carries the reader along with its sweep ... It deserves to be widely read and pondered. -- Vernon Bogdanor * The Sunday Telegraph *A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises-which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis. -- Yuval Noah Harari, author of 'Sapiens' and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century'Jared Diamond is an undisputed global star of comparative history... Britain could learn from this book about how other nations have dealt with turmoil... He finds intellectually stimulating and unusual examples that provide much food for thought. -- Andrew Marr * The Times *Diamond writes so well, and his frame of reference (across disciplines and languages) is so considerable, that almost everything he describes comes across as fresh. -- Douglas Murray * The Evening Standard *[Diamond] wears the mantle of a modern-day prophet . . . opens textures of historical possibility. Only the most obtuse reader of his latest book, on national resilience, could miss the signs and portents with which it is studded ... The prophet spares us chiselled commandments, but we have been warned. -- Colin Kidd, Book of the Day * The Guardian *Fascinating globe-hopping study * The Telegraph *As a meditation about a world on edge, it is well worth reading * The Economist *Persuasive . . . runs refreshingly counter to conventional wisdom * Bloomberg *Jared Diamond does it again: another rich, original, and fascinating chapter in the human saga-with vital lessons for our difficult times. -- Steven Pinker, author of 'Enlightenment Now'Upheaval is a brilliant, gripping, personal account of nations in crisis, informed by how people respond to crisis. It's an especially timely read today, when nations are stressed and have much to learn about how to survive big challenges. I urge you to read it. -- Paul Ehrlich, author of 'Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic'In Upheaval, I find eye-opening lessons about the political and psychological forces that lead to crisis and then resilience, how individuals and nations experience trauma in similar ways, and what that suggests about our future and the world's . . . wise and beautiful. -- Diane Ackerman, author of 'The Zookeeper's Wife'Jared Diamond is one of the deepest thinkers and most authoritative writers of our time-arguably of all time-and Upheaval proves his prescience in analyzing historical crises within nations at a time when national crises have erupted around the world . . . No scientist has ever won the Nobel Prize for literature. Jared Diamond should be the first. -- Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of 'Heavens on Earth'
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Penguin Books Ltd Orwell and Politics
Book SynopsisIncluding Animal Farm''Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth century'' New York Review of BooksThroughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make ''political writing into an art''. This collection brings together the best of his matchless political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. It includes articles on subjects from the corruption of language to the oppressive British Empire; his masterly wartime Socialist polemic, ''The Lion and the Unicorn''; a wry review of Mein Kampf; a defence of Nineteen Eighty-Four; and extracts from his controversial list of ''Crypto-Communists''. Together these works demonstrate Orwell''s commitment to telling the truth, however unpalatable, and doing so with artistry and humanity.Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Timothy Garton Ash
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. American Contempt for Liberty Hoover Institution
Book SynopsisIn this latest collection of essays Walter E. Williams takes on a range of controversial issues surrounding race, education, the environment, the Constitution, health care, foreign policy, and more. Skewering the self-righteous and self-important, he makes the case for what he calls the the moral superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient - limited government.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Ever Wonder Why and Other Controversial Essays
Book SynopsisThomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From gun control myths' to mealy mouth media' to free lunch medicine', Sowell gets to the heart of matters with his characteristically unsparing candour.Table of Contents Preface Part I: The Culture Wars Part II: Economic Issues Part III: Legal Issues Part IV: Political Issues Part V: Social Issues Part VI: Education Issues Part VII: Racial Issues Part VIII: Random Thoughts
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Politics and IR Companion
Book SynopsisRobert Leach, formerly Principal Lecturer, now Visiting Reader, Leeds Beckett University, UKSimon Lightfoot, Senior Lecturer in European Politics, University of Leeds, UKTrade ReviewLeach and Lightfoot's new and expanded Companion offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the study of Politics and IR, and a smorgasbord of key terms, concepts, biographies, and practical advice. Its scope of coverage is quite simply impressive! * Jonathon Moses, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway *This innovative and lively text introduces students to a wide range of theoretical, empirical and conceptual issues that face all students of politics and international relations. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this is essential reading for any first year course. * Heather Savigny, de Montfort University, UK *Combines short dictionary-type summaries of key concepts and key thinkers with more substantive chapters outlining the evolution of the study of politics and a truly excellent section on study skills which will support undergraduate students from their first lecture to their final exam. * Andrew Defty, University of Lincoln, UK *Table of ContentsPART I: WHAT IS POLITICS AND WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS? PART II: THE STUDY OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Section One: The Evolution of the Study and Practice of Politics Section Two: Modern Political Science and Political Ideas Section Three: International Relations: Politics beyond the water's edge Section Four: Globalization PART III: YOUR DEGREE, STUDY SKILLS, METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH-LED EMPLOYABILITY Section One: What to expect from your politics or international relations course Section Two: Study Skills Section Three: Methodology Section Four: Research Led Employability PART IV: KEY POLITICAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS PART V: KEY THINKERS.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Planetary Politics: A Manifesto
Book SynopsisThe global crisis of our time involves a complex of ecological, economic, technological and migratory challenges that no state is able to control. The result is a provincialisation of our democracies with respect to the new planetary powers confronting humanity. It is from this that our increasingly impotent and rabid politics stems. Paradoxical as it may seem, it is precisely the decline of the nation-state that is the source of the great nationalist uprising of our time.We need a new planetary vision that is able to reclaim and liberate our world, starting today and engaging each of us. This is the task of philosophy as much as it is of politics, of theory as it is of activism. Connecting with a new generation taking to the streets across the globe, this book tells the story of the ever-closer union of our world, from the age of empire to the climate crisis, and presents a plea and a roadmap to step beyond the mental and material boundaries of our nations.Trade Review"In an age of planetary-scale existential crises spearheaded by the cul-de-sac of financialised globalisation, Lorenzo Marsili's focus on the need for a renewed internationalism is vital and urgent."—Yanis VaroufakisTable of ContentsTable of contents:Introduction The twilight of universal Europe The human zoo The last ideology Before the revolution All under heaven A glimpse into a politics for the planet Notes
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Manchester University Press Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines,
Book SynopsisThis book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, it understands these antinomies not as errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds.The book questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into its critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology.Trade Review'Dube ranges widely and globally – from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India – to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject's inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies.'Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago'Saurabh Dube, a distinguished scholar of the "enchantments of modernity", turns his attention here to the various "subjects" to which modernity has given rise: to its agents, its subalterns and its narrators; to the particular sort of space and time it produces and presumes; above all, to the disciplined and undisciplined forms of knowledge it has spawned. At a time when the tenets of modernity are increasingly being called into question, he offers us a meditation of unusual insight and critical value.'Jean and John Comaroff, Harvard University'Saurabh Dube has crafted an elegantly essayistic critique of the simplistic (and single-stranded) evolutionism that inspires the pretensions of self-proclaimed global and hegemonic modernity. He shows how even progressive and well-meaning scholars conflate heterogeneous complexities, thereby imbuing this all-encompassing conceptual structure with seemingly ineluctable reality. His provocations offer a challenging break with frameworks that for too long have carried colonialism’s intellectual heritage forward even after its political demise.'Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University'Saurabh Dube’s elegant and insightful meditation on modernity, with a focus on the academic and aesthetic trajectories of the phenomenon, as well as on historical actors who both shaped and were shaped by these processes, constitutes an important revisionist take on the subject. Dube’s exploration of modernity, through a scrupulous attention to its temporal-spatial imperatives, poses a challenge at both the empirical and conceptual level to the exemplary status of the West. The book models a form of critical scholarship that is generous in its engagement with the work of its interlocutors even as it pushes against the latest clichés to chart new directions. Subjects of modernity deserves to be read very widely across a variety of overlapping fields and subfields, from history to anthropology and from subaltern studies to postcolonial theory.'Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor‘Dube’s book is an excellent reminder of the possibilities as well as the perils of modernity.’Projit Bihari Mukharji, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Postcolonial Studies‘Dube brings an electric urgency to the task of historiography of modernity, a need to look for a way out and away from the exigencies of modernity. The book is disguised as a thesis. But Dube has obviously penned a manifesto. It has its academic credentials — and he is happy to invite readers to skip and scan, reading the book as six essays rather than as a monograph. But at heart, this book is a call for action. And it is this urgency to act that makes this book a benchmark by which we look at the future investigators of modernity and their ethical and privileged respon sibilities for naming and changing the scripts that bind the subject of modernity.’Nishant Shah is Dean, ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands and teaches at the Leuphana University, Germany, Economic and Political Weekly, June 2018'Saurabh Dube’s Subjects of modernity is a conceptual reflection on and an extended dialogue with, the vast critical scholarship on modernity that the fields of postcolonial theory, history, and anthropology have yielded. However, rather than treating them as arguments to be transcended, Dube builds on this corpus of writings and further probes them. Methodologically speaking, for the work that this book does, Dube charts a space of, what he aptly calls, ‘disciplinary borderlands’ (3).'Partha Pratim Shil, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, South Asian History and Culture, December 2019'This book takes an ethnographic approach to its topic by endeavoring to observe how social and disciplinary subjects shaped by modernity go on to constitute modern worlds. Specifically, it attempts to “explore modernity as a contradictory and checkered historical- cultural entity and category as well as a contingent and contended process and condition” (1). Most of the subjects considered are intellectuals and academic disciplines (specifically history and anthropology), although the argument occasionally focuses on artists as well [...] Central to the volume—and its most original contribution—are various deliberations on the productions of time and space by various subjects. To be clear, by “time” the book means history and temporality whereas “space” suggests tradition and culture.'Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA, History and Theory, March 2020 -- .Table of Contents1 Subjects of modernity: an introduction 2 Intimations of modernity: time and space3 Maps of modernity: antinomies and enticements4 Disciplines of modernity: entanglements and ambiguities5 Margins of modernity: identities and incitements6 Modern subjects: an epilogueIndex
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Atlantic Books The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and
Book SynopsisBOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become prime minister if it were not for his brother Ed? Would Ed have become prime minister if it were not for David? How close did Jeremy Corbyn come to being prime minister? In this piercing and original study, journalist and commentator Steve Richards looks at eleven prime ministers we never had, examining what made each of these illustrious figures unique and why they failed to make the final leap to the very top. Combining astute insights into the demands of leadership with compelling historical analysis, this fascinating exploration of failure and success sheds new light on some of the most compelling characters in British public life.Trade ReviewFascinating and revelatory... Richards's thorough and admirably even-handed account will make you think again about the might-have-beens of contemporary politics. * Observer *Excellent... Steve Richards is one of the shrewdest political commentators we have. * Andrew Marr *[His] knowledge shines through... you will gain a lot of fascinating insight into British politics, both recent and historic. * New Statesman *A better and more thought-provoking book than most of those about prime ministers. * Tim Shipman *The essays in this book are thoughtful * Max Hastings, Sunday Times *With Steve Richards applying his deep knowledge and firm political grasp we get a book that is as entertaining as it is elucidating. * Alan Johnson *A gallery of losers, in one sense. But these are losers of rare political talent. With his usual insight, Steve Richards considers the fortunes of political stars who never made it to Number Ten... illuminating and entertaining. * Huw Edwards *A brilliant and fascinating reminder of all the big beasts who could have led the country. * Ayesha Hazarika *A fascinating and original book that sheds new light on the forces that shape British politics. * Iain Dale *A story of slamming doors and sliding doors. Terrific insights on the great prime ministers we didn't have from one of the shrewdest political commentators we're lucky to have. * Jon Sopel *A compelling account of the nearly men and women of Number 10. Steve Richards is a must-read writer on politics, with the rare talent of being both fun and informative. * John Crace *Fascinating insights into the hearts and minds of the nearly prime ministers - along with the reasons why none of them seized the crown. * Michael Cockerell *Britain's unusually capricious system of selecting its prime ministers means some very gifted leaders have been left on the shelf. There is no one better qualified than Steve Richards to blow away the cobwebs, and to tell us which of them might have made better prime ministers than the rum lot we sometimes got. * Sir Anthony Seldon, author of The Impossible Office *Erudite and thoroughly enjoyable * Tom Clark *Insightful and entertaining. Steve Richards remains among the brightest and best of British writers and broadcasters. * Nick Timothy, former Downing Street chief of staff *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Rab Butler 3: Roy Jenkins 4: Barbara Castle 5: Denis Healey 6: Neil Kinnock 7: Michael Heseltine 8: Michael Portillo 9: Ken Clarke 10: David and Ed Miliband 11: Jeremy Corbyn 12: Conclusion
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Watkins Media Limited Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and
Book SynopsisWhy we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one. The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-revolutionary forces, citing Marx's famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Yet forms of spirituality have motivated struggles throughout history, ranging from medieval peasant uprisings and colonial slave revolts, to South American liberation theology and the US civil rights movement. And in a world where religion is growing, and political movements are ridden with conflict, burnout, and failure, what can the left learn from religion? Red Enlightenment argues not only for a deepened understanding of religious matters, but calls for the secular left to develop its own spiritual perspectives. It proposes a materialist spirituality built from socialist and scientific sources, finding points of contact with the global history of philosophy and religion. From cybernetics to liberation theology, from ancient Indian and Chinese philosophy to Marxist dialectical materialism, from traditional religious practices to contemporary art, music, and film, Red Enlightenment sets out a plausible secular spirituality, a new socialist praxis, and a utopian vision.Trade ReviewIn this wide-ranging and often moving book, Jones makes a strong case that socialism not only is compatible with spirituality, but ultimately requires it for a comprehensive view of the multifaceted human condition. Red Enlightenment is fascinating reading for anyone interested in finding a way out of our current political crisis.
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Columbia University Press In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisWendy Brown explains the hard-right turn in Western politics. She argues that neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.Trade ReviewWendy Brown is the great radical theorist of democracy of our time, in the grand tradition of Sheldon Wolin. This book is the best treatment we have of the aftermath of the high moments of our neoliberal age and the descent into antidemocratic darkness. Yet Brown's profound analysis and mature vision give us a glimmer of hope! -- Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard UniversityIn this fascinating book, Wendy Brown demonstrates that neoliberal rationality, more than merely economistic in spirit, also contains a reactionary moralism. The two elements dovetail in curtailing every form of equality. This has devastating effects, as we can observe in the world from Trump to Bolsonaro to Erdogan. -- Étienne Balibar, author of Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: Critical Hypotheses on Religion and PoliticsWendy Brown is our most astute and far-reaching political anatomist. Here, she deepens and revises her prior, influential excavations of neoliberal reason, demonstrating how the global resurgence of far-right authoritarianism, white nationalism, and neofascism is less a reaction to economic distress or a return of repressed hatreds than a political mutation born of a long, steady corrosion of social capacities, public goods, democratic subjectivities, and information ecologies. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism exposes a novel and deadly symbiosis of neoliberal policy and reactionary politics in our time; in doing so, it provides essential orientation for all of us working to salvage democratic politics. -- Nikhil Pal Singh, New York UniversityBrown attends to the perceived puzzles of neoliberalism that have baffled other analysts and solves them outright. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism offers a complete rethinking of our current political reality. -- Nicholas Xenos, Director of the Amherst Program in Critical TheoryWhat makes Brown such a compelling political thinker — her unique ability to resist the terms in which political problematics present themselves and to reframe them in a way that opens up new lines of sight. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brilliant. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Society Must Be Dismantled2. Politics Must Be Dethroned3. The Personal, Protected Sphere Must Be Extended 4. Speaking Wedding Cakes and Praying Pregnancy Centers: Religious Liberty and Free Speech in Neoliberal Jurisprudence 5. No Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and RessentimentNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Social Acceleration
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhen I first picked up this book, I was looking forward to a leisurely reading on obscurantist Heideggerian bullshit. I was wrong. But once I got over my deep disappointment that the book was, in fact, intelligible and not littered with ramblings about Dasein, I began to appreciate the book for what it was. Critical Theory BlogTable of ContentsTranslator's Introduction In Place of a Preface Introduction Part 1. The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social Acceleration 1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity 2. What Is Social Acceleration? Part 2. Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration 3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime 4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of Contingency 5. The Acceleration of the "Pace of Life" and Paradoxes in the Experience of Time Part 3. Causes 6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration 7. Acceleration and Growth: External Drivers of Social Acceleration 8. Power Part 4. Consequences 9. Acceleration 10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players 11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration 12. Acceleration and Rigidity: Attempt at a Redefinition of Modernity Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of History Bibliography Index
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Vocation Lectures
Book SynopsisOriginally published separately, Weber's 'Science as a Vocation' and 'Politics as a Vocation' stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two related subjects that go to the heart of his thought: the nature and status of science and its claims to authority; and the nature and status of political claims and the.Trade Review[Owen and Strong] beautifully weave together the historical, philosophical, academic and personal circumstances that shaped Weber's world-view and these efforts reward the reader with a nuanced and thorough understanding. . . . Students, and even established academics, will benefit tremendously from this new edition. Rating: ***** --Jeffrey Roberts, University of Kent, in Political Studies Review
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Harvard University Press Neither Settler nor Native
Book SynopsisThe nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former created only through the violent “minoritization” inherent in the latter. Assessing cases from the United States to Eastern Europe, Israel, and Sudan, Mahmood Mamdani suggests a radical solution: the state without a nation.Trade ReviewDemonstrates how a broad rethinking of political issues becomes possible when Western ideals and practices are examined from the vantage point of Asia and Africa. -- Pankaj Mishra * New York Review of Books *Argues for a wider, political approach to understanding historical violence rather than an individual, criminal one. Mamdani examines everything from the treatment of Native Americans to Nazism to South African apartheid. It is a complex and at times painful book, but history is often complex and painful, and trying to understand it is one of our few real paths to progress. -- Candice Millard * New York Times *Over half a century, Mamdani has carved out a reputation as a forceful and articulate critic of political modernity’s supposed peace-bringing qualities…Neither Settler nor Native is [his] most comprehensive exploration yet of the subject of majority–minority relations. In a comparative analysis of five countries…he locates the origin story of contemporary postcolonial political violence far back in history. -- Francis Wade * The Baffler *Mamdani makes a compelling case… Although the book’s scope is ambitious…it has a clear starting point: the invention of indirect rule as a technique of modern colonial governance…Mamdani draws on the details of his case studies to formulate some broad lessons for decolonizing politics today—most importantly, disaggregating the nation from the state and creating more inclusive forms of democratic politics in the wake of identity-based strife. -- Hari Ramesh * Boston Review *Provocative, elegantly written…with the aim of understanding the sources of the extreme violence that has plagued so many postcolonial societies. -- Fara Dabhoiwala * New York Review of Books *This book compels the reader to rethink the origin and development of the nation-state and its replication as inseparable from European colonialism, beginning with the establishment of the Spanish state through racialized ethnic cleansing and the 1492 deportations of Jews and Moors. In elegant prose with no wasted words or jargon, this original and brilliant work argues that the United States created the template for settler-colonialism, providing the model upon which the South African apartheid regime and the Israeli state were patterned, a model also used by the Nazi regime that adopted US race theory and catastrophic ethnic cleansing. The book provides not only profound historical analysis but also deeply researched descriptions of the current US and Israeli regimes of settler-colonialism and more. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United StatesBrilliant! A deeply learned account of the origins of our modern world. Situating the beginnings of the nation-state in the settler-colonial practice of creating permanent minorities, Mamdani illustrates how this damaging political logic continues into our own era, resulting far too often in today’s extraordinary political violence. Through his own elegant contrarianism, Mamdani rejects the current focus on human rights as the means to bring justice to the victims of this colonial and postcolonial bloodshed. Instead, he calls for a new kind of political imagination, one that will pave the way for a truly decolonized future. Joining the ranks of Hannah Arendt’s Imperialism, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, and Edward Said’s Orientalism, this book is destined to become a classic text of postcolonial studies and political theory. -- Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, City University of New YorkNeither Settler nor Native analyzes seemingly disparate political histories to illuminate the intertwined logic of colonial statecraft and nation-building, the legacy of which was the violent manufacture of permanent majorities and minorities the world over. This is a masterwork of historical comparison and razor-sharp political analysis, with grave lessons about the pitfalls of forgetting, moralizing, or criminalizing this violence. Mamdani also offers a hopeful rejoinder in a revived politics of decolonization, not as romantic revolution but a renewed art of politics. Decolonization uses the tools of political engagement and negotiation to unsettle inherited identities, to convert perpetrators and victims into survivors, natives and settlers into citizens, nation-states into inclusive democracies. -- Karuna Mantena, Columbia UniversityA powerfully original argument, one that supplements political analysis with a map for our political future. -- Faisal Devji, University of OxfordAn urgent intervention in contemporary politics. In a searing critique of the nation-state, Mamdani persuasively argues that there will be no decolonization, no democracy, no peace until we de-link the association between the ‘nation’ and state power. -- Nandita Sharma * The Wire *Mamdani [is] one of the most perceptive and savviest analysts of postcolonial African history…A major achievement. A veritable testimony to the strength and resources of political thought that is a boon to his students and admirers, and to every other reader not enchanted by the discourses of the powers-that-be. -- S. Parvez Manzoor * Muslim World Book Review *
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Dover Publications Inc. God and the State
Book SynopsisA founder of modern philosophical anarchism presents a clear introduction to anarchist thought and a manifesto of atheism. Bakunin offers a mind-opening experience for even the most skeptical readers. This influential work denounces religion as a weapon of the state that must be smashed in the pursuit of the right to self-determination.
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Oxford University Press The Art of Rhetoric
Book SynopsisAristotle's Art of Rhetoric is a treatise concerning the theory and practice of the most dynamic form of discourse in Classical Greece. The Rhetoric was a touchstone for all later ancient writers on the subject, from the Stoics to Cicero.Trade ReviewIn short, this translation from Waterfield builds on a series of readable and affordable translations from Oxford World's Classics and will no doubt prove valuable to both students and academics. Waterfield has given Aristotle his own colourful voice, if not an even more doddery one, which will prove both entertaining as well as informative to Oxford World's Classics' intended audience. * Will Coles, University of London, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Penguin Books Ltd On Conspiracies
Book SynopsisMachiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in his day. He also gives advice on tactics and discipline, and explains why promises made under force ought not to be kept. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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Pluto Press Elite Capture
Book SynopsisA powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own endsTrade Review‘Worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking’ -- Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of ‘How to Be an Antiracist’‘I was waiting for this book without realising I was waiting for this book' -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of ‘Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition’‘Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a neoliberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism’s latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world’ -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of ‘Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination’‘Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build the power needed to win’ -- Naomi Klein, author of ‘This Changes Everything’ (on his previous book)'Offers important new ways to think about political possibilities in a world increasingly dominated by the ultra-rich' -- Amitav Ghosh, author of the Booker-shortlisted 'Sea of Poppies''Anyone concerned with both understanding and transforming the world must read this succinct but mighty book. A invigoratingly subversive gem' -- Minna Salami, award-winning essayist and author of 'Sensuous Knowledge'‘This book, building on one of the most lucid, powerful, and important essays I can recall reading in recent years, is, in a word, brilliant. Read it—and read it twice. Every sentence contains multitudes.’ -- Daniel Denvir, host of The Dig‘An indispensable and urgent set of analyses, interventions, and alternatives to ‘identity politics,’ ‘centering,’ and much more. The book offers a sober assessment of the state of our racial politics and a powerful path on how to build the world that we deserve’ -- Derecka Purnell, author of ‘Becoming Abolitionists’‘With global breadth, clarity and precision, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought’ -- Adom Getachew, author of ‘Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination’‘Among the churn of books on ‘wokeness’ and ‘political correctness,’ philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book.’ -- Jason Stanley, author of ‘How Fascism Works’‘Olúfẹḿi O. Táíwò is one of the great social theorists of our generation. Elite Capture is a brilliant, devastating book. Táíwò deploys his characteristic blend of philosophical rigor, sociological insight, and political clarity to reset the debate on identity politics. Táíwò shows how the structure of racial capitalism, not misguided activism, is today’s prime threat to egalitarian, anti-racist politics. And Táíwò’s suggested path forward, a constructive and materialist politics at the radical edge of the possible, is exactly what we need to escape these desperate times. Anyone concerned with dismantling inequalities, and building a better world, needs to read this book.’ -- Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-author of ‘A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal’‘Táíwò's book is an insightful and fascinating look at how it is that elites capture and subvert efforts to better society. Anyone who wants to understand and improve upon the activist movements shaking our world needs to read this book.’ -- Liam Kofi Bright, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics‘The misuse of identity politics has led to Nancy Pelosi wearing kente cloth but has done little to address actual inequality. Táíwò’s project is reclamation’ -- Zak Cheney-Rice, ‘New York magazine’'One of the most important books I’ve read for cultivating a dedication to progressive change, and for unscrambling some of the cultural frustration of capitalism and its digital revolution' -- Eliz Mizon, ‘Chompsky’‘A transformational text’ -- Emma Dabiri, research associate at SOAS University of London, and author of ‘What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition’‘An emboldening step towards a constructive politics that aims to collectively free us from the violent overdetermination of our lives’ -- ‘ArtReview’‘Astonishing … a philosophically, morally and politically thrilling book’ -- Scott Stephens, The Minefield (ABC)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. What Is Elite Capture? 2. Reading the Room 3. Being in the Room 4. Building a New House 5. The Point Is to Change It Notes Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Running For Local Office For Dummies
Book SynopsisGet ready to run forand winthat local election! In the land of opportunity, just about anyone who qualifies as an elector can seek public office. Some do it on a whim, some are urged to run, and some want to use their time and talents to make a difference in their local community. If you want to know how to prepare for a run, which steps to take beforehand, and how the process goes from announcement to campaigning to election day to the swearing-in ceremonythis book has you covered. Find out what it's like to run for local office as a first-time candidateExplore the introspection required and the study necessary to make such a run effectiveDeal with marketing, fundraising, interacting with the public, and dealing with opponentsEncourage and help others to make a run for local office Though only one person ultimately wins a seat, nobody does it without a wide network of support. Running For Local Office For Dummies is your ticket to navigating every step on the road to winning that eTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Hail, Future Caesar 5 Chapter 1: Who Runs for Public Office 7 To Be a Politician 7 Avoiding public office altogether 8 Understanding who wins elections 9 Having thick skin 9 Resisting conformity 10 The Ideal Candidate 11 The Political Type 13 Understanding why people run for office 13 Becoming one of them 14 Accept the Results 15 Chapter 2: Local Office Choices 17 Political Hierarchy 17 Local Office Options 19 Exploring political divisions 19 Selecting a seat 20 Knowing your taxing districts 21 Choose an Office 22 Letting the office find you 22 Making a good fit 22 Partisan Effects 23 Running along party lines 23 Avoiding partisan politics 24 Chapter 3: Other Ways to Get Involved 25 Boost Your Public Résumé 25 Building your reputation 26 Becoming a community leader 26 The Activist and the Gadfly 27 Underestimating the gadfly 27 Becoming an activist 28 Joining a party 29 Stay Behind the Curtain 30 Knowing the power players 30 Becoming an influential person 30 Part 2: Before You Run 33 Chapter 4: Know Yourself 35 Some Vital Questions 35 Asking family and friends 36 Knowing your public exposure 36 Discovering your abilities 37 Reaching your goal 38 Explore Your Past 39 Remembering what you’ve done 39 Dealing with potential issues 41 Sell Yourself 42 Believing you can do it 42 Acting the part 43 Dressing the part 44 To Become a Public Person 45 Being available 45 Making new friends and contacts 46 Cutting short a boring conversation 47 Chapter 5: Research the Position 49 The Obligations of Holding Office 49 Knowing the basic requirements 50 Exploring other responsibilities 51 Fit the Job into Your Schedule 52 Study the Issues 52 The Players 53 Recognizing the cast and crew 54 Making the rounds 55 Identifying other people to know 55 Chapter 6: Consider Your Competition 57 Meet Your Opposition 57 Finding possible opponents 58 Building a list of potential candidates 58 Doing a SWOT analysis 59 The Street Fight 60 Having too many opponents 60 Categorizing your opposition 61 Dropping out 62 The Formidable Foe (an Incumbent) 62 Studying the incumbent’s record 63 Reviewing the organization’s unpopular decisions 63 Experiencing the perfect political storm 63 The Agony of Running Unopposed 64 Slates 64 Understanding a slate 65 Being slated against your will 65 Chapter 7: Know the Voters 67 Behold: Voter Data! 67 Running the local election 68 Gathering election data 68 Preparing your lists 70 Purging the lists 72 Obtaining ongoing voter data 73 The Fickle Electorate 73 Accepting the truth about voters 74 Dealing with unholy partisanship 75 Becoming the preferred type of elected official 75 Chapter 8: Ready to Run 77 When to Start? 77 Knowing the election type and style 78 Creating a campaign calendar 79 Starting early 80 The Announcement 81 Creating a press release 82 Staging an announcement event 83 Get Your Answers Ready 84 Memorizing important answers 84 Avoiding awkward answers 85 Election Registration 86 Understanding the qualifications for office 86 Filing the forms 87 Commit Your Time 88 Part 3: The Campaign 89 Chapter 9: Gather Your Assets 91 People to Help You 91 Finding required people 92 Using a campaign manager 93 Obtaining other important people 93 Recruiting volunteers 94 Your Message 95 Honing a message 95 Updating your bio 96 Avoiding meaningless mush 96 Making promises 97 Endorsements 97 Contact Lists 98 Chapter 10: Your Campaign Brand 101 Marvelous Marketing Mavens 102 You are the Product 102 Generating name recognition 102 Creating written material 103 Taking campaign photos 104 Magic Marketing Material 105 Building a brand 105 Creating the traditional handouts 106 Considering other printed material 108 Chapter 11: Money Stuff 111 Campaign Finances 112 Creating a spreadsheet 112 Receiving cash and checks 113 Taking in-kind donations 114 Getting online payments 114 Setting your funding goal 115 Money to Spend 116 Discovering how much things cost 116 Wasting money 118 The Secret to Raising Money 119 Doing background work 119 Asking for money 120 Working through a rejection 121 Strategies for Fundraising 122 Putting on a meet-and-greet 122 Visiting organizations 123 Funding yourself 124 Finance Reports 124 Knowing the law 125 Dealing with campaign finance problems 126 Chapter 12: Communications 127 Connect with Your Audience 127 Using social media 128 Sending direct mail 129 Making some yard signs 133 Writing letters to the editor 136 Going door-to-door 137 Attending forums and debates 138 Writing press releases 140 To Go Negative 142 Understanding “going negative?” 142 Accepting that some people don’t like you 143 Unleashing your wrath 144 Preparing your defense 145 Chapter 13: The Campaign 147 Your Campaign’s Number-One Employee 148 Taking on a full-time job 148 Clearing your calendar 148 Making those calls 149 Putting your volunteers to work 149 Not One, but Two Elections 150 Running in the primary and general elections 151 Addressing the absentees 151 Working the general election 152 Stuff Happens 154 Enduring a major screw-up 154 Dealing with a family emergency 155 Down to the Wire 155 Chapter 14: Election Day 157 Get Out the Vote 158 Rules About Election Day 158 Plan Your Victory Party 160 The Aftermath 161 Accepting a loss 161 Dealing with a win 162 Agonizing over close elections 162 Why Not Try Again? 163 Part 4: In Office 165 Chapter 15: Know the Law 167 Orientation 167 Rules 168 Knowing the code 169 Visiting your paid expert 170 Conflicts of Interest 171 Determining a conflict of interest 172 Dealing with a conflict 172 The Quasi-Judicial Role 174 Becoming judge and jury 174 Avoiding ex parte communications 175 Your Role 176 Serving the public 176 Accepting limitations on your infinite power 177 Making policy versus administrative roles 178 Cooperation 179 Chapter 16: Public Service 181 The Staff 181 Knowing who’s who 182 Assigning department liaisons 183 Interacting with staff 183 Avoiding surprises 184 Members of the Public 185 Serving your constituents 185 Following through 186 Public Communications 187 The Press 187 Developing a positive relationship with the media 188 Tossing a reporter a bone 188 Being caught off guard 189 Your Behavior in Public 190 Chapter 17: At a Public Meeting 191 Transparency 191 Keeping the public’s business public 192 Creating a paper trail 193 Excluding items from the public 194 Disclosing conflicts and recusing yourself 195 The Public Meeting 195 Setting the agenda 196 Conducting yourself during a meeting 198 Attending workshops 199 Concerned Citizens Want to Be Heard 200 Holding public comment 201 Dealing with upset people 201 Your Public Record 203 Chapter 18: Decisions: Who to Tick Off? 205 The Same Ol’ Same Ol’ 205 Homework for Every Decision 206 That “Difficult Decision” 207 The Vote 208 Chapter 19: Your Reelection 211 The Glory of Incumbency 211 Taking advantage of your advantage 212 Understanding why voters keep incumbents 212 Reapplying for the same job 213 Your Reelection Strategy 213 Touting your public record 214 Being an active candidate 214 Term Limits 215 Groom a Replacement 216 Part 5: The Part of Tens 219 Chapter 20: Ten Common Campaign Mistakes 221 Not Raising Money 222 Spending Money Early 222 Misspending Money 223 Not Showing Up 223 Not Tracking Finances 223 Mistreating Staff and Supporters 224 Arguing with Idiots Online 224 Not Using Volunteers 225 Getting Facts Wrong 226 Going Negative 226 Chapter 21: Ten Ups and Downs 229 Up and Down: Polls 229 Up: Money Comes In 230 Down: Press Coverage 230 Up: Unexpected Support 231 Down: Your Opponent is Doing Well 232 Up: You See an Effect 232 Down: Stress 233 Up: Positive Feedback 233 Down: No-Shows 234 Up: You Did It 234 Chapter 22: Ten Frustrations of an Elected Official 235 Staff Offers Yes–No “Decisions” 236 Electeds Kowtow to Staff 236 Electeds Keep Congratulating Staff 237 The Whole “Sir” Thing 238 Out of the Loop 238 Someone Punts 239 When Peers are Obviously Unprepared 240 People Who Suck the Air Out of the Room 240 Subcommittee Overload 241 Experts to Ignore 243 Index 245
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Bentham
Book SynopsisJeremy Bentham – philosopher, theorist of law and of the art of government – was among the most influential figures of the early nineteenth century, and the approach he pioneered – utilitarianism – remains central to the modern world. In this new introduction to his ideas, Michael Quinn shows how Bentham sought to be an engineer or architect of choices and to illuminate the methods of influencing human conduct to good ends, by focusing on how people react to the various physical, legal, institutional, normative and cultural factors that confront them as decision-makers. Quinn examines how Bentham adopted utility as the critical standard for the development and evaluation of government and public policy, and explains how he sought to apply this principle to a range of areas, from penal law to democratic reform, before concluding with an assessment of his contemporary relevance. He argues that Bentham simultaneously sought both to facilitate the implementation of governmental will and to expose misrule by rendering all exercises of public power transparent to the public on whose behalf it was exercised. This book will be essential reading for any student or scholar of Bentham, as well as those interested in the history of political thought, philosophy, politics, ethics and utilitarianism.Trade Review‘Jeremy Bentham was a tireless schemer and policy-designer, a control freak and life-long exposer of corruption and misrule. Michael Quinn’s masterful volume explains how Bentham’s liberating and oppressive ideas all flow from the same principles.’ Peter Niesen, University of Hamburg ‘This book is an excellent one-stop source for all things Bentham. Quinn’s command of the philosopher’s vast corpus is extraordinary. Through a series of lucid and engaging chapters he contributes a new reading of Bentham as a pragmatic and supremely relevant theorist of governmental reason.’ Stephen Engelmann, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter1: Life and Logic: what matters, and why? Chapter 2: The principle of utility: raising the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and law Chapter 3: Direct Legislation: Bentham and Penal Law Chapter 4: Indirect Legislation Chapter 5: Civil Law and Political Economy Chapter 6: Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (I): Panoptic Architecture and Management Chapter 7: Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (II): The Prevention of Misrule Chapter 8: International Law, the world next door Chapter 9: Jeremy Bentham: why bother? Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Why Global Justice Matters: Moral Progress in a
Book SynopsisWhile many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely unequal, with our place of birth continuing to exert a major influence on our opportunities. In this accessible book, leading political theorist Chris Armstrong engagingly examines the key moral and political questions raised by this stark global divide. Why, as a citizen of a relatively wealthy country, should you care if others have to make do with less? Do we have a moral duty to try to rectify this state of affairs? What does 'global justice' mean anyway - and why does it matter? Could we make our world a more just one even if we tried? Can you as an individual make a difference? This book powerfully demonstrates that global justice is something we should all be concerned about, and sketches a series of reforms that would make our divided world a fairer one. It will be essential introductory reading for students of global justice, activists and concerned citizens.Trade Review'In this lucid introduction to global justice, Chris Armstrong shows how globalization concerns all of us. He explains why global justice matters and how to respond to it with both individual and collective initiatives.' Lea Ypi, London School of Economics 'Chris Armstrong's book is a terrific achievement. It successfully combines philosophical and ethical reasoning with a sure grasp of empirical realities. It discusses some of the most important issues of our time; and it does so in a wonderfully clear and accessible way that vividly conveys just what is at stake.'Simon Caney, University of Warwick
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Bristol University Press Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to
Book SynopsisThe 21st century has not seen the triumph of democracy that some predicted but instead, in many cases, a turn towards authoritarian forms of government as an imagined solution to the many crises facing humanity. This innovative and important book draws on examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government: a lurch towards ‘authoritarian protectionism’ which observes a simple maxim, that ‘the world may end for others, but not for us’. While there is hope that the COVID-19 crisis could lead to a reinvigoration of democracy and a new economic agenda, there is also the risk of a further slide towards authoritarian rule and an urgent need for democratic renewal and change to combat this. The novel conceptualization offered in this book will give readers a new and deeper insight into the changing nature of the authoritarian threat to democracy – and how it might be overcome.Trade Review"It is a great research primer for all scholars in the field, and an informative work for curious readers who want to strengthen their understanding of contemporary events with robust knowledge." The London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of Contents1. On the March 2. Them and Us 3. 'I Will Protect You' 4. Pandemic Politics 5. Sino-America 6. Authoritarian Futures?
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Basic Books A New World Begins: The History of the French
Book SynopsisThe principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all of their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror.Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins is the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Britain Is Better Than This
Book SynopsisAn urgent and timely exploration of a British political system in peril and what we must do to save it.For centuries, British identity has been shaped by ideas of exceptionalism, grandeur and competence. Yet British democracy is failing. Governments supported by a minority of voters are elected with enormous majorities under a deeply unrepresentative first-past-the-post system. The result has been failed leaders delivering wounding blows to the country''s economy, prosperity and international image.Britain Is Better Than This explores what lies beneath this sense of malaise, revealing the structural and constitutional failures at the heart of a sclerotic political system. It sheds light on a culture of lies, distrust and corruption. It reveals fundamental flaws in core institutions, including the media, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. It draws on events such as the MP expenses scandal, Brexit, ''Partygate'' and the farcical premiership of
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Verso Books Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait
Book SynopsisThe extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir with a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing formats. Lives on the Left brings together sixteen such interviews from New Left Review in a group portrait of intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since.Four generations of intellectuals discuss their political histories and present perspectives, and the specialized work for which they are, often, best known. Their recollections span the century from the Great War and the October Revolution to the present, ranging across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis, philosophy, the gendering of private and public life, capital and class formation, the novel, geography, and language are among the topics of theoretical discussion. At the heart of the collection, in all its diversity of testimony and judgement, is critical experience of communism and the tradition of Marx, relayed now for a new generation of readers.Lives on the Left includes interviews with Georg Lukács, Hedda Korsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dorothy Thompson, Jir?i Pelikan, Ernest Mandel, Luciana Castellina, Lucio Colletti, K. Damodaran, Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, Adolfo Gilly, João Pedro Stédile, Asada Akira, Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi.New Left Review was founded in 1960 in London, which has remained its base ever since. In fifty years of publication, it has won an international reputation as an independent journal of socialist politics and ideas, attracting readers and contributors from every part of the world. A Spanish-language edition is published bi-monthly from Madrid.Trade ReviewThe biography of the review cannot be reduced to a formula: its experience so far has been too rich and too contradictory... It is up to date without being merely journalistic; it is scholarly but unscarred by citation-compulsion; and it is analytical about the long-term forces at work in politics rather than obsessed by the spume of the latest wavelet of manoeuvring and posturing... That's what I admire above all about NLR: its intellectual seriousness-its magnificently strenuous attempt to understand, to analyse, to theorise. -- Stefan Collini * Guardian *
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Springer International Publishing AG Enlargement and the Future of Europe: Views from
Book SynopsisThis book analyses Member States’ and EU neighbours’ national visions for the enlargement of the European Union (EU), highlighting 41 national histories, policies, and corresponding public perceptions of European integration. In a geopolitical context in which Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine has renewed the impetus for EU enlargement, national views vary considerably on the timing, conditions, and reforms necessary to welcome Eastern neighbours and the Western Balkans countries into the European family. Moreover, EU enlargement policy is not only an investment in peace and stability; it has also become a political tool in response to the exploitation of interdependencies and illiberal pressures. This book presents concrete policy recommendations to national governments and the EU on how to move forward productively.Table of Contents Enlarging and reforming the European Union - An Austrian perspective Belgium: If the enlargement process is broken, then fix it Bulgaria's attitude towards EU enlargement Croatia: Between proclaimed enthusiasm and reality on the ground The national debate in Cyprus on the future of EU enlargement policy The Czech Approach to EU Enlargement: Full Steam Ahead! Denmark: Two or three recent shifts and the problem of favouring stability and security over democratisation Estonia: definitely positive about enlargements Finland and EU enlargement What French infuriating reluctance reveals Germany and EU enlargement (title TBC) Greece, EU enlargement and the ‘ Thessaloniki promise‘ Enlargement at all costs? Hungarian visions for the political agenda of the EU towards the Eastern Neighborhood and the Western Balkans Ireland and EU enlargement (title TBC) Beyond ‘Enlargement Fatigue’– A View from Rome on the Future of Europe Head and Heart in the Right Place: Latvia on the EU Enlargement Lithuania’s strong support for EU’s "open door“ policy – how to cope with getting what you aimed for? Luxembourg: Get ready to enlarge Malta and Enlargement – Supportive but Not Engaged Direction East – Polish views on EU’s Enlargement Policy Portugal: Nobody talks about enlargement Romania’s constant support for the enlargement process. A proof of investment in European values Slovakia’s Approach to EU Enlargement: From Strategic Passivity to Declaratory Supporter Slovenia: a Strong Defender of Western Balkan Enlargement Spain: A country in favour of enlargement, but of low performance Sweden and EU enlargement: A strong supporter walking a fine line Strict, fair, engaged.... and still without a vision? A view from the Netherlands on EU enlargement, the western Balkans and the Eastern neighbourhood What's holding back Albania? Bosnia and EU enlargement (title TBC) Seizing the EU Enlargement Momentum: Georgia’s Prospects for Joining the European Family Iceland's passive supportive approach: Vocal with others on Ukraine Kosovo's EU membership bid: a leap of faith Liechtenstein and EU enlargement (title TBC) How should EU support Moldova’s path towards accession? The Scramble for re-Enlargement: Montenegro North Macedonia: Stuck at the doorstep of EU? Norway and the enlargement of the EU Serbia on a rocky road to the EU Switzerland: not a candidate but a partner in EU enlargement Schrödinger’s Candidate: Türkiye’s Awkward Situation within the Enlargement Debate Oh the outside looking in: The UK after Brexit Ukraine: Enlargement of the EU in the new realities: Challenges and prospect
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Oxford University Press Rights of Man Common Sense and Other Political
Book Synopsis`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.'' Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man (1791-2) was the most famous defence of the French Revolution and sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. He paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was villified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America. Paine loathed the unnatural inequalities fostered by the hereditary and monarchical systems. He believed that government must be by and for the people and must limit itself to the protection of their natural rights. But he was not a libertarian: from a commitment to natural rights he generated one of the first blueprints for a welfare state, combining a liberal order of civil rights with egalitarian constraints. This collection brings together Paine''s most powerful political writings from the American and French revolutions in the first fully annotated edition of these works. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review'OUP's excellent series continues with a collection from the Christopher Hitchens de ses jours.' GuardianTable of ContentsCommon Sense ; American Crisis 1 ; American Crisis X111 ; Letters to Jefferson ; Rights of Man ; Rights of Man. Part the Second ; Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation ; Dissertation on the First Principles of Government ; Agrarian Justice
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Oxford University Press Reflections on the Revolution in France
Book SynopsisEdmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits should not be transgressed, and what should be reverently preserved. Burke''s generation was much in need of advice on these matters. The Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and catastrophically, the French Revolution presented challenges of terrible proportions. They could promise paradise or threaten anarchy. Burke was acutely aware of how high the stakes were. The Reflections on the Revolution in France was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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