Masses Classes Ideas

Author : Etienne Balibar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134567584

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Masses, Classes, Ideas by Etienne Balibar Pdf

In Masses, Classes, Ideas, well-known French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. The book gathers together for the first time in English nine of Balibar's most influential essays written over the last decade, which have been carefully revised and reordered in logical succession with an original preface. Balibar discusses the influence of political philosophy on collective movements, touching on issues of religious and class struggle, nationalism and racism, the rights of man and the citizen, and property as a social relation. He seeks to explain the novelty of Marxist philosophy and political theory with respect to the classical doctrines of "state" and "revolution." Masses, Classes, Ideas also examines the limitations and aporias which have become manifest in Marxist philosophy and critically assesses its legacy, offering a provocative contribution to the project of renewing democratic theory.

Author : Etienne Balibar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134567515

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Masses, Classes, Ideas by Etienne Balibar Pdf

In Masses, Classes, Ideas, well-known French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. The book gathers together for the first time in English nine of Balibar's most influential essays written over the last decade, which have been carefully revised and reordered in logical succession with an original preface. Balibar discusses the influence of political philosophy on collective movements, touching on issues of religious and class struggle, nationalism and racism, the rights of man and the citizen, and property as a social relation. He seeks to explain the novelty of Marxist philosophy and political theory with respect to the classical doctrines of "state" and "revolution." Masses, Classes, Ideas also examines the limitations and aporias which have become manifest in Marxist philosophy and critically assesses its legacy, offering a provocative contribution to the project of renewing democratic theory.

Author : Mike Hill,Warren Montag
Publisher : Verso
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1859847773

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Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere by Mike Hill,Warren Montag Pdf

This volume poses fundamental questions about the function and relevance of the public sphere, both politically and practically.

Author : Warren Montag
Publisher : Verso
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859847013

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Bodies, Masses, Power by Warren Montag Pdf

This book seeks to show, against the grain of English language commentary, that Spinoza is neither a Cartesian nor a liberal but precisely the most thoroughgoing materialist in the history of philosophy. The work begins by examining Spinoza's notion of the materiality of writing, a notion developed through his examination of scripture. It then postulates the three fundamental principles of Spinoza's philosophy: there can be no liberation of the mind without a liberation of the body, and no liberation of the individual without a collective liberation, and that the written form of these propositions itself possesses a corporeal existence, not as the realization or materialization of a pre-existing mental, spiritual intention, but as a body among other bodies. Ultimately, the book prompts us to consider Spinoza's philosophy anew, by replacing questions like "Who has read it?" and "Of those, how many of us have understood it?" with "What material effects has it produced, not only on or in minds, but on bodies as well?" and "To what extent has it moved bodies and what has it moved them to?"

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063627905

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Étienne Balibar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400825783

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We, the People of Europe? by Étienne Balibar Pdf

étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. Balibar moves deftly from state theory, national sovereignty, and debates on multiculturalism and European racism, toward imagining a more democratic and less state-centered European citizenship. Although European unification has progressively divorced the concepts of citizenship and nationhood, this process has met with formidable obstacles. While Balibar seeks a deep understanding of this critical conjuncture, he goes beyond theoretical issues. For example, he examines the emergence, alongside the formal aspects of European citizenship, of a "European apartheid," or the reduplication of external borders in the form of "internal borders" nurtured by dubious notions of national and racial identity. He argues for the democratization of how immigrants and minorities in general are treated by the modern democratic state, and the need to reinvent what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly multicultural, diversified world. A major new work by a renowned theorist, We, the People of Europe? offers a far-reaching alternative to the usual framing of multicultural debates in the United States while also engaging with these debates.

Author : Martin Slattery
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0748765654

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Key Ideas in Sociology by Martin Slattery Pdf

Key Ideas in Sociology provides a tour d'horizon of the great sociological thinkers of the last two centuries -- their lives, their main ideas, and their influence on further thinking and practice in sociology. Fifty key thinkers in sociology are represented, both to give a sense of history to the development of the discipline and to exemplify the range of issues that have been covered. Each essay concludes with an annotated Suggested Readings list, and a General Bibliography is also provided.

Author : David Kazanjian
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816642370

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The Colonizing Trick by David Kazanjian Pdf

An illuminating look at the concepts of race, nation, and equality in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America, The idea that "all men are created equal" is as close to a universal tenet as exists in American history. In this hard-hitting book, David Kazanjian interrogates this tenet, exploring transformative flash points in early America when the belief in equality came into contact with seemingly contrary ideas about race and nation. The Colonizing Trick depicts early America as a white settler colony in the process of becoming an empire--one deeply integrated with Euro-American political economy, imperial ventures in North America and Africa, and pan-American racial formations. Kazanjian traces tensions between universal equality and racial or national particularity through theoretically informed critical readings of a wide range of texts: the political writings of David Walker and Maria Stewart, the narratives of black mariners, economic treatises, the personal letters of Thomas Jefferson and Phillis Wheatley, Charles Brockden Brown's fiction, congressional tariff debats, international treaties, and popular novelettes about the U.S.-Mexico War and the Yucatan's Caste War. Kazanjian shows how emergent racial and national formations do not contradict universalist egalitarianism; rather, they rearticulate it, making equality at once restricted, formal, abstract, and materially embodied.

Author : Warren Montag
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474404242

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Balibar and the Citizen Subject by Warren Montag Pdf

Explores the core of Balibars work since 1980This collection explores Balibars rethinking of the connections between subjection and subjectivity by tracing the genealogies of these concepts in their discursive history. The 12 essays provide an overview of Balibars work after his collaboration with Althusser. They explain and expand his framework; in particular, by restoring Arabic and Islamic thought to the conversation on the citizen subject. The collection includes two previously untranslated essays by Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes. Key FeaturesThe first English-language edited collection to focus on BalibarPresents and explains Balibars key contributions to political theory and the history of political philosophyIncludes two essays by Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes: 'Schmitts Hobbes, Hobbess Schmitt' and 'The Mortal God and his Faithful Subjects: Hobbes, Schmitt and the Antinomies of Secularism'Contributors include Atienne Balibar, Nancy Armstrong, Giorgos Fourtounis, Mohamed Moulfi

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0887384358

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Reading Matter by Arthur Asa Berger Pdf

"Reading Matter" defines a comprehensive set of methodological approaches that can be used to analyze and interpret material culture and relate it to personality and society. The author's focus is on the material culture of postliterate societies and cultures, both contemporary and historical. In the first part of the book, Berger offers discussions of the main concepts found in semiotic, historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and sociological analysis. The second part uses these disciplines to investigate one subject--fashion--and what the author calls the "denimization" phenomenon, showing how different methods of "reading" material culture end up with different perspectives on things--even when they are dealing with the same topic.

Author : Géraldine Muhlmann
Publisher : Polity
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745644738

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Journalism for Democracy by Géraldine Muhlmann Pdf

The important new book by GTraldine Muhlmann addresses these gaps in our understanding and goes a long way towards filling them. --

Author : Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319632872

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Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age by Ranabir Samaddar Pdf

This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age. Those who study Marx, particularly in the West, often lack an understanding of post-colonial realities; conversely, however, those who fashion post-colonial theory often have an inadequate understanding of Marx. Many think that Marx is not relevant to critique postcolonial realities and the legacy of Marx seldom reaches the post-colonial countries directly. This work will read Marx in the contemporary post-colonial condition and elaborate the current dynamics of post-colonial capitalism. It does this by analysing contemporary post-colonial history and politics in the framework of inter-relations between the three categories of class, people, and postcolonial transformation. Examining the structure of power in postcolonial countries and revisiting the revolutionary theory of dual power in that context, it appreciates and explains the transformative potentialities of Marx in relation to post-colonial condition.

Author : Ishay Landa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351179973

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Fascism and the Masses by Ishay Landa Pdf

Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception. It argues that the entwining of fascism with the masses is a remarkable transubstantiation of a movement which understood and presented itself as a militant rejection of the ideal of mass politics, and indeed of mass society and mass culture more broadly conceived. Thus, rather than "massifying" society, fascism was the culmination of a long effort on the part of the élites and the middle-classes to de-massify it. The perennially menacing mass – seen as plebeian and insubordinate – was to be drilled into submission, replaced by supposedly superior collective entities, such as the nation, the race, or the people. Focusing on Italian fascism and German National Socialism, but consulting fascist movements and individuals elsewhere in interwar Europe, the book incisively shows how fascism is best understood as ferociously resisting what Elias referred to as "the civilizing process" and what Marx termed "the social individual." Fascism, notably, was a revolt against what Nietzsche described as the peaceful, middling and egalitarian "Last Humans."

Author : Earl Wysong,Robert Perrucci,David Wright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442205291

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The New Class Society by Earl Wysong,Robert Perrucci,David Wright Pdf

The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States have been widened, hardened, and become more entrenched than ever. The fourth edition has been extensively revised and reorganized throughout, including a new introduction that offers an overview of key themes and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics. New material for the fourth edition includes a discussion of "The Great Recession" and its ongoing impact, the demise of the middle class, rising costs of college and increasing student debt, the role of electronic media in shaping people's perceptions of class, and more.

Author : James Chandler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0226101096

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England in 1819 by James Chandler Pdf

1819 was the annus mirabilis for many British Romantic writers, and the annus terribilis for demonstrators protesting the state of parliamentary representation. In 1819 Keats wrote what many consider his greatest poetry. This was the year of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, and Ode to the West Wind. Wordsworth published his most widely reviewed work, Peter Bell, and the craze for Walter Scott's historical novels reached its zenith. Many of these writings explicitly engaged with the politics of representation in 1819, especially the great movement for reform that was fueled by threats of mass emigration to America and came to a head that August with an unprovoked attack on unarmed men, women, and children in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, a massacre that journalists dubbed "Peterloo." But the year of Peterloo in British history is notable for more than just the volume, value, and topicality of its literature. Much of the writing from 1819, argues James Chandler, was acutely aware not only of its place in history, but also of its place as history - a realization of a literary "spirit of the age" that resonates strongly with the current "return to history" in literary studies. Chandler explores the ties between Romantic and contemporary historicism, such as the shared tendency to seize a single dated event as both important on its own and as a "case" testing general principles. To animate these issues, Chandler offers a series of cases of his own built around key texts from 1819.