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  • La fine della fine della storia

    Lo strano ritorno della politica nel XXI secolo

    Series series Soglie
    La fine della storia è finita. Il vecchio ordine mondiale si sta sgretolando sotto i nostri occhi, e con lui la certezza che la democrazia liberale occidentale fosse il sistema politico più avanzato. Negli ultimi quindici anni la politica occidentale ha subìto degli scossoni fortissimi: dalla crisi finanziaria del 2008, passando per Brexit e l’elezione di Trump nel 2016, fino al colpo di grazia ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eros et Civilisation

    Contribution à Freud

    Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Herbert Marcuse. Dans "Éros et civilisation", Herbert Marcuse renouvelle l'interprétation marxiste des structures sociales répressives à la lumière d'une relecture de Freud. Il conteste le freudisme comme théorie de l'intégration psychologique individuelle dans la société et renverse la conception freudienne des pulsions. Il y découvre aussi toute l ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ivan Illich in Conversation: The Testament of Ivan Illich

    The Testament of Ivan Illich

    by David Cayley ...
    For more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to additional sessoins that continued until 1992 and are now gathered in Ivan Illich in Conversation. In these fascinating conversations, which range over a wide selection of the celebrated thinker's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Eurocentrism

    by Samir Amin ...
    Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Revolution Betrayed

    Translated by Max Eastman ...
    by Leon Trotsky ...
    One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent related events.The effects of the October Revolution led to the establishment of a ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encounters with World Affairs

    An Introduction to International Relations

    This book is designed to familiarise students with leading International Relations (IR) theories and their explanation of political events, phenomena, and processes which cross the territorial boundaries of the state. Thus, students will be exposed to the interplay between power, interest, ideas, identity, and resistance, in explaining continuity and change in international relations. Developed to ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda

    by Peter Taylor ...
    A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter TaylorIn ‘Talking to Terrorists’ Peter Taylor takes us on a personal journey, quoting from diaries written at the time, as he reveals what it was like to come face-to-face with IRA terrorists and Islamic jihadis.What are terrorists really like? How do states counter them? And should governments talk to them? Drawing on more ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Democracia sin atajos

    Una concepción participativa de la democracia deliberativa

    Translated by Luis García Valiña ...
    Series series Estructuras y Procesos. Ciencias Sociales
    "Un libro brillante" (Jürgen Habermas) Este libro articula una concepción participativa de la democracia deliberativa que aspira a mejorar el control democrático de la ciudadanía y defiende la importancia de la participación ciudadana frente a concepciones que menosprecian su valor. Para ello, ofrece un análisis crítico de concepciones pluralistas, epistémicas y lotocráticas de la democracia. Sus ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The ABCs of Trump: Asshole, Bullshitter, Chauvinist, Essays on Life in Trumpworld

    This book is a collection of short essays whose length and shape were formed to fit the requirements of The Oklahoma Observer, a monthly publication of politics and opinion in which nearly all of these pieces originally appeared.The intended audience for these essays is an educated general audience, not my fellow academic philosophers. I could have called these pieces "philosophical" essays on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Games, Sports, and Play

    Philosophical Essays

    Edited by Thomas Hurka ...
    Series series Engaging Philosophy
    This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that's been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play. Some contributions address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common and that distinguishes them from other activities; here many take their start from Bernard Suits's celebrated analysis of game-playing in his book The Grasshopper and either ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Gilgameschs Erben - Bd. II

    Vom sumerischen Priesterstaat zur demokratischen Zivilisation

    Der sumerische König Gilgamesch wird in einem der ältesten literarischen Dokumente der Menschheit besungen. Als Erbe seiner Zeit bleiben dem 21. Jahrhundert aber nicht nur die Zivilisationsleistungen des alten Mesopotamien, sondern auch Männerherrschaft, ideologische Manipulation, Naturzerstörung und eskalierende Konflikte. Dies nennt Öcalan die »Kapitalistische Moderne« und setzt dagegen die Idee ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Himno de retirada

    La muerte de la libertad de expresión y por qué nos saldrá cara

    by David Mamet ...
    Translated by Verónica Puertollano López ...
    Series series Deusto
    Cómo la cultura woke nos empobrece intelectualmente y amenaza la democraciaCada vez son más las voces que se alzan contra la insaciable tiranía de la corrección política. David Mamet, uno de los autores más importantes de las últimas décadas en Estados Unidos, expresa en estas páginas su hartazgo con la pendiente resbaladiza de la cultura de la cancelación y con la asfixiante atmósfera del ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Thousand Small Sanities

    The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

    by Adam Gopnik ...
    A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.A Thousand Small ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Conservatism and Crisis

    The Anti-Modernist Perspective in Twentieth Century German Philosophy

    What happens to a culture when it’s most basic assumptions are questioned and rejected, but no new ones are offered to replace them? This book critically analyzes anti-modernist philosophy, the (perhaps futile) attempt to recover traditional worldviews and belief systems in order to cope with the void of meaning engendered by the upheavals of modernity. The textual focus of this book is interwar ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Lecciones de un siglo de vida

    by Edgar Morin ...
    Translated by Núria Petit Fontserè ...
    Series series Estado y Sociedad
    Este es el libro para celebrar el centenario del gran filósofo francés Edgar Morin: Lecciones de un siglo de vida es un texto inspirador y revitalizante, pero también lúcido y revelador, escrito por uno de los pensadores más importantes e inclasificables de nuestro tiempo.Edgar Morin comparte su experiencia de 100 años, sin ocultar sus errores, sus dudas, sus lamentos, y nunca descuida sus ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Civil Rights

    RHETORIC OR REALITY

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Die

    An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

    by Seneca ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • O novo tempo do mundo

    E outros estudos sobre a era da emergência

    by Paulo Arantes ...
    Series series Coleção Estado de Sítio
    Os ensaios que integram O novo tempo do mundo formam o mapa possível de nosso tempo - um tempo em contínua guerra civil, assinalado pela ausência de perspectivas, estado de exceção permanente, catástrofe ambiental, colapso urbano e militarização do cotidiano: uma era de perpétua emergência, em que esquerda e direita confluem na gestão de programas de urgência. Refletindo sobre as manifestações de ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Communist Manifesto

    ‘The Communist Manifesto’ is the classic work of economics that initiated one of the greatest movements of political change that the world has ever seen. The writings of Karl Marx brilliantly expose the vast divide between the elite ruling class and the working class that has existed throughout history. At the time ‘The Communist Manifesto’ was first published it was intended to serve as a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Maschera e Volto dello Spiritualismo Contemporaneo

    Pubblicato in origine nel 1932, riunendo saggi apparsi negli anni precedenti, e poi ristampato nel 1949 e nel 1971 con aggiornamenti, questo libro risulta di una sconvolgente attualità, tale da poter essere ancora oggi utilizzato come un illuminante manuale per orientarsi nel babelico “spiritualismo contemporaneo” degli anni 2000 e per evitarne le trappole. Infatti, ancora oggi sono numerosi gli ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cartas de um Estoico, Volume II

    Um guia para a Vida Feliz

    by Sêneca ...
    Translated by Alexandre Pires Vieira ...
    Series Book 2 - Cartas de um Estoico
    Sêneca forjou nestas cartas sua obra-prima, o seu testamento vital, no qual inumeráveis preocupações e experiências são abordadas. As cartas constituem uma pedagogia em ação, nas quais o mestre se dedica ao progresso do discípulo, Lucílio. Nelas Sêneca apresenta uma síntese dos seus princípios de sabedoria, virtude e liberdade. Sêneca aborda a busca da felicidade, o medo da morte, a desilusão, a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • In the Swarm

    Digital Prospects

    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Series Book 3 - Untimely Meditations
    A prominent German thinker argues that—contrary to “Twitter Revolution” cheerleading—digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.—from In the SwarmDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • L'existentialisme est un humanisme de Jean-Paul Sartre (Analyse approfondie)

    Approfondissez votre lecture de cette œuvre avec notre profil littéraire (résumé, fiche de lecture et axes de lecture)

    Series series Analyse approfondie
    Cet ouvrage fournit une analyse approfondie de L'existentialisme est un humanisme de Jean-Paul Sartre avec toutes les clés pour analyse l'œuvre.« L'existence précède l'essence. » Cette locution bien connue de Jean-Paul Sartre est au centre de son ouvrage L'existentialisme est un humanisme, dont la vocation est de répondre à ses détracteurs en argumentant sa thèse existentialiste et, par là même, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What We Owe Each Other

    A New Social Contract for a Better Society

    From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD