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Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theoryby Andrew FeenbergISBN 0520089863 (0-520-08986-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writingsby Petr Alekseevich KropotkinISBN 048641955X (0-486-41955-X)
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The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focusby James L. PeacockISBN 0521004594 (0-521-00459-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheimby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0520056132 (0-520-05613-2)
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Between Literature and Science : The Rise of Sociologyby Wolf Lepenies, R. J. Hollingdale, Lorraine Daston, Dorothy Ross, Quentin SkinnerISBN 0521338107 (0-521-33810-7)
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The Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weberby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0520056140 (0-520-05614-0)
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Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Workby Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0520214889 (0-520-21488-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work'Book summary:Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three New York Times Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions--indeed, American life itself. This book gathers some of Hochschild's most important and most widely read articles in one place, includes new work, and brings several essays to American audiences for the first time. Each chapter reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Taken together, they are a compelling, often startling, look at how our everyday lives are shaped by modern capitalism.[via]
These essays, rich with the details of everyday life, explore larger social issues by looking at a series of intimate moments in people's lives. Among them, "Love and Gold" investigates the globalization of love by focusing on care workers who leave their own children and elderly to care for children and the elderly in wealthy countries. In "The Commodity Frontier," Hochschild considers an Internet ad for a "beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse--$400/week," and explores our responses to personal services for hire. In "From the Frying Pan into the Fire" she asks if capitalism is a religion. In addition to these recent essays, several of Hochschild's important early essays, such as "Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers," have been revised and updated for this collection.More editions of Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work:
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby Augustine, Albert Cook OutlerISBN 0486424669 (0-486-42466-9)
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The Cunning of Reasonby Martin HollisISBN 0521270391 (0-521-27039-1)
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Emile Durkheim: Selected Writingsby Anthony Giddens, E. DurkheimISBN 0521085047 (0-521-08504-7)
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Emile Durkheim: Selected Writingsby E. DurkheimISBN 0521097126 (0-521-09712-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings'Book summary:This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim's writings drawing upon the whole body of his work. Dr Giddens takes his selections from a wide variety of sources and includes a number of items from untranslated writings in the Revue Philosophique, Annee Sociologique and from L'evolution pedagogue en France. Selections from previously translated writings have been checked against the originals and amended or re-translated where necessary. Dr Giddens arranges his selections thematically rather than chronologically. However, extracts from all phases of Durkheim's intellectual career are represented, giving the date of their first publication, which makes the evolution of his thought easily traceable. In his introduction Dr Giddens discusses phases in the interpretation of Durkheim's thought, as well as the main themes in his work, with an analysis of the effects of his thinking on modern sociology. The book is for students at any level taking courses in sociology, social anthropology and social theory in which Durkheim is one of the major writers studied. [via]
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The End of Ancient Christianityby R. A. MarkusISBN 0521339499 (0-521-33949-9)
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English Culture And the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850v1980by Martin J. WienerISBN 0521270340 (0-521-27034-0)
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Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Social Theoryby Geoffrey HawthornISBN 0521337216 (0-521-33721-6)
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Epistemology of the Closetby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0520078748 (0-520-07874-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epistemology of the Closet'Book summary:Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual life of the U.S. This has been, to no small degree, due to the popularity of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers--including Herman Melville, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde--Sedgwick delineates a historical moment in which sexual identity became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries.
Sedgwick's literary analysis, while provocative and often startling (you will never read Billy Budd or The Picture of Dorian Gray the same way again), is simply the basis for a larger project of examining and analyzing how the categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" continue to shape almost all aspects of contemporary thought. Epistemology of the Closet is a sometimes-dense work, but one filled with wit and empathy. Sedgwick writes with great intelligence and an eye for irony, but always makes clear that her theories and critical acumen are in the service of a politic that seeks to make the world a better and more humane place for everyone. An extraordinary book that reshapes how we think about literature, sexuality, and everyday life. --Michael Bronski [via]
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The Everlasting Manby Gilbert Keith ChestertonISBN 0486460363 (0-486-46036-3)
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Extraordinary Popular Delusionsby Charles MacKayISBN 0486432238 (0-486-43223-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions'Book summary:Classic survey of crowd psychology takes an illuminating, entertaining look at three historic swindles: "The Mississippi Scheme," "The South-Sea Bubble," and "Tulipomania." Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.[via]More editions of Extraordinary Popular Delusions:
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MacKayISBN 051788433X (0-517-88433-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds'Book summary:Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.
In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. [via]
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The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyondby Sherry B. OrtnerISBN 0520216016 (0-520-21601-6)
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Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Moralsby William Graham SumnerISBN 0486424960 (0-486-42496-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals'Book summary:This century-old classic of sociology offers thousands of illustrations of the social, sexual, and religious customs of ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and modern Western civilization in Europe and America. Subjects include labor, wealth, slavery, cannibalism, marriage, education, and many other absorbing topics.[via]More editions of Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals:
From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society A Translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguoby Wang Zheng, Gary HamiltonISBN 0520077962 (0-520-07796-2)
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Geishaby Liza Crihfield DalbyISBN 0520204956 (0-520-20495-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geisha'Book summary:In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district. [via]
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General Economic Historyby Max Weber, Frank Hyneman KnightISBN 0486425142 (0-486-42514-2)
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Guy Debordby Anselm Jappe, Donald Nicholson-SmithISBN 0520212053 (0-520-21205-3)
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High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addictionby Marc Redfield, Janet Farrell BrodieISBN 0520227514 (0-520-22751-4)
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The Idea of Fraternity in Americaby Wilson C. McWilliamsISBN 0520016505 (0-520-01650-5)
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Insight and Solidarity: A Study in the Discourse Ethics of Jurgen Habermasby William RehgISBN 0520208978 (0-520-20897-8)
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Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermasby David HeldISBN 0520041755 (0-520-04175-5)
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An Introduction to Karl Marxby Jon ElsterISBN 052133831X (0-521-33831-X)
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Leviathanby Thomas HobbesISBN 0486447944 (0-486-44794-4)
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Making Sense of Marxby Jon ElsterISBN 0521297052 (0-521-29705-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Sense of Marx'Book summary:A systematic, critical examination of Karl Marx's social theories and their philosophical presuppositions. Through extensive discussions of the texts Jon Elster offers a balanced and detailed account of Marx's views that is at once sympathetic, undogmatic and rigorous. Equally importantly he tries to assess 'what is living and what is dead in the philosophy of Marx', using the analytical resources of contemporary social science and philosophy. Professor Elster insists on the need for microfoundations in social science and provides a systematic criticism of functionalism and teleological thinking in Marx. He argues that Marx's economic theories are largely wrong or irrelevant; historical materialism is seen to have only limited plausibility (and is not even consistently applied by Marx); Marx's most lasting achievements are the criticism of capitalism in terms of alienation and exploitation and the theory of class struggle, politics and ideology under capitalism, though in these areas too Elster enters substantial qualifications. The book should take its place as the most comprehensive and sophisticated modern study available. [via]
Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory : Dethroning the Selfby Warren Breckman, Robert B. PippinISBN 0521003806 (0-521-00380-6)
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Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermasby Martin JayISBN 0520057422 (0-520-05742-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marxism And Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas'Book summary:Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's multiple meanings--expressive, decentered, longitudinal, latitudinal, normative--or its implications for other theoretical and practical matters. By closely following the adventures of this troublesome but central concept, Marxism & Totality offers an unconventional account of the history of Western Marxism.[via]More editions of Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas:
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The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Selfby Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Eugene Rochberg-HaltonISBN 052128774X (0-521-28774-X)
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The Micro-Macro Linkby Richard Munch, Neil Smelser, Jeffrey Alexander, Bernhard GiesenISBN 0520060687 (0-520-06068-7)
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The Military and the State in Latin Americaby Alain RouquieISBN 0520066642 (0-520-06664-2)
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Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsonsby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0520056159 (0-520-05615-9)
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Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understandingsby William M. ReddyISBN 0521315093 (0-521-31509-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understandings'Book summary:The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, has revealed an increasingly poor fit between these concepts and the reality they purport to explain. Some historians have reacted by rejecting class; others have proposed bold revisions in our understanding of it that enable it to encompass new research findings. This study does neither. Instead, building on interpretive method Professor Reddy proposes to replace class with an alternative concept that seeks to capture from a new angle the fundamental relations of exchange and authority that have shaped social life in modern Europe. [via]
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The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Communityby Philip SelznickISBN 0520089340 (0-520-08934-0)
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolutionby Petr Alekseevich KropotkinISBN 0486449130 (0-486-44913-0)
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The Nation-State and Violenceby Anthony GiddensISBN 0520060393 (0-520-06039-3)
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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Realityby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0521335078 (0-521-33507-8)
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Nowhere: Space, Time and Modernityby Roger Friedland, Deirdre BodenISBN 0520080181 (0-520-08018-1)
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Penseesby Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. EliotISBN 0486432556 (0-486-43255-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pensees'Book summary:Intended to prove that religion is not contrary to reason, Pensées ranks among the liveliest and most eloquent defenses of Christianity. Pascal had intended to write an ambitious apologia for Christianity but his untimely death prevented the work's completion. The fragments remain a vital part of religious and philosophical literature. Introduction by T. S. Eliot.[via]More editions of Pensees:
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Philosophical Papers Vol. 2 : Philosophy and the Human Sciencesby Charles TaylorISBN 0521317495 (0-521-31749-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophical Papers Vol. 2 : Philosophy and the Human Sciences'Book summary:Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental traditions in philosophy. A selection of his published papers is presented here in two volumes, structured to indicate the direction and essential unity of the work. He starts from a polemical concern with behaviourism and other reductionist theories (particularly in psychology and the philosophy of language) which aim to model the study of man on the natural sciences. This leads to a general critique of naturalism, its historical development and its importance for modern culture and consciousness; and that in turn points, forward to a positive account of human agency and the self, the constitutive role of language and value, and the scope of practical reason. The volumes jointly present some two decades of work on these fundamental themes, and convey strongly the tenacity, verve and versatility of the author in grappling with them. They will interest a very wide range of philosophers and students of the human sciences. [via]
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Philosophy & Myth in Karl Marxby Robert C. TuckerISBN 0521097010 (0-521-09701-0)
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Philosophy and the Human Sciencesby Charles TaylorISBN 0521267536 (0-521-26753-6)
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Plasticity into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success Variations on Themes of Polby Roberto Mangabeira UngerISBN 0521338646 (0-521-33864-6)
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Politicsby Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett, H.W.C. DavisISBN 0486414248 (0-486-41424-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics'Book summary:Intellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Both heavily influenced by and critical of Plato's Republic and Laws, Politics is the distillation of a lifetime of thought and observation. The great Benjamin Jowett translation.[via]More editions of Politics:
Positivism Presuppositions and Current Controversiesby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0520056124 (0-520-05612-4)
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Powers of Theory: Capitalism, the State, and Democracyby Roger Friedland, Robert R. AlfordISBN 0521316359 (0-521-31635-9)
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Profiles and Critiques in Social Theoryby Anthony GiddensISBN 0520049640 (0-520-04964-0)
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Talcott Parsons, Max WeberISBN 048642703X (0-486-42703-X)
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The Recent Work of Jurgen Habermas: Reason, Justice and Modernityby Stephen K. WhiteISBN 0521343607 (0-521-34360-7)
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486411214 (0-486-41121-4)
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Savage Inequalities : Children in America's Schoolsby Jonathan KozolISBN 051758221X (0-517-58221-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Social Action and Human Natureby Hans Joas, Axel HonnethISBN 0521339359 (0-521-33935-9)
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Social and Political Thought of Karl Marxby Shlomo AvineriISBN 0521096197 (0-521-09619-7)
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Social Change and Modernityby Hans Haferkamp, Neil J. SmelserISBN 0520068289 (0-520-06828-9)
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Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His Criticsby David Held, John B. ThompsonISBN 0521278554 (0-521-27855-4)
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Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationalityby Jon ElsterISBN 0521313686 (0-521-31368-6)
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The Sources of Social Power: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760by Michael MannISBN 052131349X (0-521-31349-X)
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Spaces of Hopeby David HarveyISBN 0520225783 (0-520-22578-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spaces of Hope'Book summary:As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting richer; power was concentrating within huge corporations; vast tracts of the earth were being laid waste; three quarters of the earth's population had no control over its destiny and no claim to basic rights. There was nothing new in this. What was new was the virtual absence of any political will to do anything about it. Spaces of Hope takes issue with this.[via]
David Harvey brings an exciting perspective to two of the principal themes of contemporary social discourse: globalization and the body. Exploring the uneven geographical development of late-twentieth-century capitalism, and placing the working body in relation to this new geography, he finds in Marx's writings a wealth of relevant analysis and theoretical insight. In order to make much-needed changes, Harvey maintains, we need to become the architects of a different living and working environment and to learn to bridge the micro-scale of the body and the personal and the macro-scale of global political economy.
Utopian movements have for centuries tried to construct a just society. Harvey looks at their history to ask why they failed and what the ideas behind them might still have to offer. His devastating description of the existing urban environment (Baltimore is his case study) fuels his argument that we can and must use the force of utopian imagining against all who say "there is no alternative." He outlines a new kind of utopian thought, which he calls dialectical utopianism, and refocuses our attention on possible designs for a more equitable world of work and living with nature. If any political ideology or plan is to work, he argues, it must take account of our human qualities. Finally, Harvey dares to sketch a very personal utopian vision in an appendix, one that leaves no doubt about his own geography of hope.More editions of Spaces of Hope:
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0486452409 (0-486-45240-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Days That Shook the World'Book summary:The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!"
Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will."
In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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A Treatise on Social Theory: The Methodology of Social Theoryby W. G. RuncimanISBN 0521272513 (0-521-27251-3)
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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Bodyby Susan BordoISBN 0520088832 (0-520-08883-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body'Book summary:"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body--weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more--in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape--finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"--Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (2001)[via]More editions of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body:
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0486295834 (0-486-29583-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. His complex and ironic account of an imaginary communist society has not only given rise to the genre of utopian fiction but has been an inspiration to generations of political reformers. The present edition differs from other English-language editions in that it includes all the ancillary materials that were included, at More's behest, in the early editions (encompassing letters and poems on Utopia by More and several of his humanist associates), in that it presents a new version of the highly-regarded translation by Robert M. Adams, and in that its introductory materials and annotations assimilate important recent scholarship. [via]
What Is Property: An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Governmentby P.-J Proudhon, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0486224864 (0-486-22486-4)
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What's Wrong With the Worldby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486454274 (0-486-45427-4)
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The Whole World Is Watchingby Todd GitlinISBN 0520040244 (0-520-04024-4)
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The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Leftby Todd GitlinISBN 0520239326 (0-520-23932-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left'Book summary:"The whole world is watching!" chanted the demonstrators in the Chicago streets in 1968, as the TV cameras beamed images of police cracking heads into homes everywhere. In this classic book, originally published in 1980, acclaimed media critic Todd Gitlin first scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. Drawing on his own experiences (he was president of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64) and on interviews with key activists and news reporters, he shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities. He then demonstrates how the media glare made leaders into celebrities and estranged them from their movement base; how it inflated the importance of revolutionary rhetoric, destabilizing the movement, then promoted "moderate" alternatives--all the while spreading the antiwar message. Finally, Gitlin draws together a theory of news coverage as a form of anti-democratic social management--which he sees at work also in media treatment of the anti-nuclear and other later movements.Updated for 2003 with a new preface, The Whole World Is Watching is a subtle and sensitive book, true to the passions and ironic reversals of its subject, and filled with provocative insights that apply to the media's relationship with all activist movements. [via]
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Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848by William Hamilton SewellISBN 0521299519 (0-521-29951-9)
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