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Tras muchas décadas de debate público acerca de la influencia que ejerce el dinero (y sus poseedores) en el funcionamiento democrático en general y, particularmente, sobre la agenda pública, resulta evidente que la ciudadanía es sensible y está atenta a la cuestión del financiamiento de la política. De hecho, no existen, en las democracias contemporáneas, voces públicas que estén en desacuerdo con la premisa que afirma que la ciudadanía...
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A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day.
Navigating the broad 'river of anarchy', from Taoism to Situationism, from Ranters to Punk rockers, from individualists to communists, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, 'Demanding the Impossible' is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood...
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L'antispécisme — la lutte contre toute discrimination fondée sur l'appartenance à une espèce animale — est plus explicitement politique que le végétarisme ou le véganisme, qui sont essentiellement des modes de vie. Dès la fin du XIXe siècle, des communautés végétariennes et des groupes de pression ont lutté contre l'exploitation des animaux, mais c'est en Grande-Bretagne, au milieu du XXe siècle, qu'une autre forme de militantisme...
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Get the Summary of Ted Cruz's Unwoke in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. According to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, America is under a woke assault from the Marxists of the Democratic Party. Unwoke (2023) is a critique of Marxism and its influence on American society, drawing from historical context and Cruz ' s experiences as the son of Cuban immigrants who fled communist oppression. Cruz, a conservative Republican, argues...
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Get the Summary of Adam Kinzinger's Renegade in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Renegade" by Adam Kinzinger offers a detailed account of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath from the perspective of the congressman and former Air Force pilot. Kinzinger, a critic of Trumpism, describes the former president's inaction during the assault and his role in spreading election...
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Stein Ringen is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford. His books include Citizens, Families, and Reform and The Possibility of Politics.
In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing....
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La rebelión del público, un texto tan clásico como profético, busca sentar las bases para un renovado entendimiento de los impactos de las nuevas tecnologías y las redes sociales (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc) sobre la política, el Estado y la autoridad. Libro sobre los tsunamis sociales de ira que se llevan puesto todo lo que encuentran en su camino, cuyo título es un homenaje a La rebelión de las masas de José Ortega y Gasset, indaga...
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The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication – from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age.
Who would have expected that apparently timesaving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment?
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L'agonie du capitalisme appelle le coup de grâce de l'anarchie. Propriété, patrie, famille, armée, justice: toutes les institutions de la société bourgeoise ne pourront résister aux assauts conjugués de l'anarchisme et de ses défenseurs. Voilà en substance ce que prne La société mourante et l'anarchie, rédigé en prison et publié pour la première fois en 1893, et qui valut à son auteur d'être renvoyé derrière les barreaux pour deux...
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In the 21st Century the Labour Party has undergone the most extraordinary transformation in its history, from the death of New Labour to the rise of Corbynism. In this witty, insightful book Lewis Goodall tells the full story of this political revolution for the first time, with exclusive access to all its key players, from Blair to Corbyn. Travelling from the streets of his childhood in the shadow of the Birmingham Rover factory to the corridors...
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Esther Leslie's path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of Benjamin's oeuvre. In looking at the entirety of Benjamin's work - rather than the four or five essays available in English which tend to form the Benjamin 'canon' - Leslie offers powerful new insights into a key twentieth-century political thinker, correcting the post-structuralist...
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In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism. Anchored in three hegemonical states--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany--these systems, he argues, shared certain characteristics that distinguished them from other attempts to restructure the international political scene. While Communism and Nazism...
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Herbert Spencer was an incredible prophet and a magnificent defender of laissez-faire. Among his numerous works is
The Man Versus The State, first published in 1884. That book launched one of the most spirited attacks on statism ever written. He ridiculed the idea that government intervention of any kind "will work as it is intended to work, which it never does." He drew on his tremendous knowledge of history, citing one dramatic case after another...
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Toutes les forces politiques se réclament aujourd'hui du mot « démocratie ». Or l'étude des discours des « pères fondateurs » des prétendues « démocraties » modernes aux États-Unis et en France révèle que ces derniers s'opposaient à un régime o le peuple se gouverne seul, et associaient cette idée au chaos et à la tyrannie des pauvres. Comment expliquer que le régime électoral actuel soit perçu comme l'ultime modèle « démocratique...
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Bringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement.
It traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how, having become a major cultural phenomenon...
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Get the Summary of Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examines the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarian leaders through historical and contemporary examples. The authors highlight the cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Chávez, where political elites mistakenly believed they could...
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This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counterculture,...
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'Remarkable ... a major contribution to our understanding and handling of one of the crucial contemporary issues that acquires more gravity by the day.' Zygmunt Bauman
This is an in-depth sociological study of the phenomenon of anti-racism, as both political discourse and social movement practice in western Europe.
Lentin develops a comparative study of anti-racism in Britain, France, Italy and Ireland. While 'race' and racism have been...
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In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet?
In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates...
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Paul Edward Gottfried is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of, among other books, Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, The Search for Historical Meaning; and The Conservative Movement. Editor in chief of This World, he is also a senior editor of Telos and a contributing editor to Chronicles and Humanitas.
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century...
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