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Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0860917851
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0860910695
Author : Darragh McKeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1443418838
Under a crimson dawn sky, Artyom Telvatnikov stands in a field of cows, his fingertips glistening with the warm blood that streams from their ears. It is April 1986 and ten miles away, above the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, swaths of sparks flood the air, inflaming a cluster of ordinary lives that pass their days in supermarkets and railway tunnels, on factory floors and in recital rooms, inciting them to actions of violence, strangeness and terrible beauty. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, an extraordinary debut novel, casts a gaze upon one of the most enduring tragedies of recent history. It delicately weaves an array of real and imagined characters into an intricate tapestry of a society undergoing the first moments of its unravelling, a place where all natural order has been distorted, a time where nothing is so incredible that it cannot be true. After the Chernobyl disaster, nature underwent its full cycle--from spring to summer to autumn and winter--over the course of a few weeks. When people frantically tried to find out what to do in a case of a reactor meltdown, the relevant passages in their manuals had been meticulously blacked out with marker. The Russian authorities had done this to convince the workers that a meltdown would never occur and hence they didn't need instructions. In All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Darragh McKeon dramatizes the immense human cost of that accident. There is Grigory, a doctor from Moscow who is sent to the region to deal with the radiation victims. There is Maria, his estranged wife who comes to the attention of the authorities due to some ill-advised articles she wrote for underground papers. Then there is her nephew, Yevgeni, a nine-year-old musical prodigy who suddenly loses his sense of rhythm. Chernobyl and its aftermath will change their lives forever, just as it will mark the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.
Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781784785000
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism. But like many New York intellectuals, the essay was his characteristic form, accommodating his multifarious interests and expressing his protean, searching exuberant mind. This collection includes early essays from and on the radical ’60s, on New York City, on literary figures from Kafka to Pamuk, and late essays on rock, hip hop, and gentrification. Concluding with his last essay, completed just before his death in 2013, this book is Berman’s intellectual autobiography, tracing his career as a thinker through the way he read the “signs in the street.””
Author : Delphine Bedel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architectural photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124179347
Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859843093
Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509536122
No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what relevance does it have for us today? In this slim book Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs the way Marx described it, it has by no means disappeared; on the contrary, the profit once generated through the exploitation of workers has been transformed into rent appropriated through the privatization of the ‘general intellect’. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have become extremely wealthy not because they are exploiting their workers but because they are appropriating the rent for allowing millions of people to participate in the new form of the ‘general intellect’ that they own and control. But, even if Marx’s analysis can no longer be applied to our contemporary world of global capitalism without significant revision, the fundamental problem with which he was concerned, the problem of the commons in all its dimensions – the commons of nature, the cultural commons, and the commons as the universal space of humanity from which no one should be excluded – remains as relevant as ever. This timely reflection on the enduring relevance of The Communist Manifesto will be of great value to everyone interested in the key questions of radical politics today.
Author : Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788734578
Ambalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain's most influential radical thinkers. As Director of the Institute of Race Relations for forty years, his work changed the way that we think about race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Communities of Resistance collects together some of his most famous essays, including his excoriating polemic on Thatcherism and the left "The Hokum of New Times". This updated edition contains a new preface by Gary Younge and an introduction by Arun Kundnani.
Author : David Beach,Su Yin Mak
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580465595
Displays the range and diversity of Schenkerian studies today in fifteen essays covering music from Bach through Debussy and Strauss.
Author : Eugene Lunn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520315204
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004443976
Marx circles us, and we him. These essays approach Marx through three circles – the source; the legacy into the twentieth century; and the developments since the postwar boom. This work represents a lifetime’s engagement with Marx and his legacy.
Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110971251
Globalisation is not a new phenomenon; but on the eve of the millennium, the processes that constitute the phenomenon of globalization are intensifying, and being experienced in new ways. This book looks at the writings of Marx which are relevant to these current issues.
Author : Miriam Rom Silverberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691194677
Nakano Sigeharu (1902-1979), leading twentieth-century Japanese poet and social critic, transformed the revolutionary culture movement of the 1920s. Positioning Nakano's thought within the very history of Japanese Marxism, Miriam Silverberg applies textual analyses to his pre-war writings to form a new perspective on the history of the politics and culture of the Japanese left. Her book relates Nakano to the Western Marxist tradition, recognizes the existence of a Japanese Marxist theory of commodity culture, and uses this theory to illuminate the era. In particular, Silverberg addresses how Nakano, like his European contemporaries, worked toward a critique of mass culture, illustrating how Japanese thinkers in the 1920s and 1930s adoped Marxism as the dominant method of political and intellectual inquiry. This book draws on Marx's writings and those of Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci, Bertolt Brecht, and Mikhail Bakhtin to present Nakano as a Marxist critic and poet. Close reading of Nakano's essays, poems (most of them appearing for the first time in English), fiction, and prison letters trace Nakano's "changing song" or consciousness through four stages--from his "discovery of history" in the mid-1920s to his refusal to be silenced during the late 1930s, when he produced a series of scthing attacks on intensifying state repression. Miriam Silverberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Peter Wagner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446264515
Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the ′organization of modernity′, in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the ′rationalistic revolution′ of the ′golden age′ of capitalism in the 1950s and 60s. Part two examines key concepts in the social sciences. It begins with some of the broadest concepts used by social scientists: choice, decision, action and institution and moves on to examine the ′collectivist alternative′: the concepts of society, culture and polity, which are often dismissed as untenable by postmodernists today. This is a major contribution to contemporary social theory and provides a host of essential insights into the task of social science today.
Author : Matthew Yglesias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451663297
From prominent political thinker and widely followed Slate columnist, a polemic on high rents and housing costs—and how these costs are hollowing out communities, thwarting economic development, and rendering personal success and fulfillment increasingly difficult to achieve. Rent is an issue that affects nearly everyone. High rent is a problem for all of us, extending beyond personal financial strain. High rent drags on our country’s overall rate of economic growth, damages the environment, and promotes long commutes, traffic jams, misery, and smog. Yet instead of a serious focus on the issue, America’s cities feature niche conversations about the availability of “affordable housing” for poor people. Yglesias’s book changes the conversation for the first time, presenting newfound context for the issue and real-time, practical solutions for the problem.