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  • Creolizing Marcuse

    Edited by Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, Sid Simpson ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    Addresses the pressing need for a liberatory critical theory that is responsive to contemporary challenges, exploring the intersections between Herbert Marcuse's critical theory and Africana and Caribbean theory.This collection challenges the academic domestication of critical theory and revitalizes Marcuse, employing creolization as a method to disrupt and reconfigure the Western canon.This is a ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Marcusean Mind

    Edited by Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, Sid Simpson ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophical Minds
    Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was a member of the Frankfurt School, a leading figure of 1960s counterculture, and a fundamental character for the New Left. His ideas and theories, inspired by a rich fusion of Marxian and Freudian thought, exert a strong influence on contemporary thinking about activism, emancipation, and political resistance. He was also a student of Martin Heidegger in the late ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Problem with Work

    Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

    by Kathi Weeks ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of unpaid work as a valued form of labor, even they have tended to accept work as a naturalized or ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Hayek's Challenge

    An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek

    by Bruce Caldwell ...
    Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell—editor of The Collected ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • The Postnational Constellation

    Political Essays

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer it new forms of expression? What are the implications of globalization for our understanding of politics and of national and cultural identities?In The Postnational Constellation, the leading German philosopher and social theorist J?rgen Habermas addresses these and other ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Mute Compulsion

    A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

    by Søren Mau ...
    **Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial PrizeA new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalism**Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchment amidst crisis and unrest, Mute Compulsion offers a novel theory of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Idea of Socialism

    Towards a Renewal

    by Axel Honneth ...
    The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life beyond capitalism. How can we explain the rapid decline of this once powerful idea? And what must we do to renew it ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Marx's Ethical Vision

    by Vanessa Christina Wills ...
    "The communists do not preach morality at all"; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. Yet, Marx issued both trenchant critiques of "bourgeois" morality and thundering condemnations of capitalism's "vampire-like" destructiveness. He decried commodity-exchange for corroding our ability to value one another ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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  • Cosmopolitan Vision

    by Ciaran Cronin, Ulrich Beck ...
    In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Theories Of Comparative Politics

    The Search For A Paradigm Reconsidered, Second Edition

    by Ronald H Chilcote ...
    Extensively revised and updated, this classic text revisits the central problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms to guide us in comparative political inquiry. Building upon the first edition's comprehensive and systematic overview of frameworks, ideologies, and theories, the second edition highlights new directions and developments over the past decade, including the ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD