El marxismo y la filosofía del lenguaje

Esta obra, inscripta dentro de la producción de textos del Círculo de Bajtín, abre la reflexión sobre el lenguaje y su uso bajo una interpretación ligada a la doctrina filosófica marxista. De esta manera, aborda el estudio de las ideologías y la filosofía del lenguaje ...

Vacío y unidad

introducción al pensamiento de Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt es el último gran clásico del pensamiento político. En los últimos treinta años, sus ideas han animado los más variados debates ideológicos desde la nueva derecha al populismo de izquierdas. Su importancia se debe a su capacidad premonitoria: nos ofreció varias fórmulas, la ...

Badvertising

polluting our minds and fuelling climate chaos

Advertising is selling us a dream, a lifestyle. It promises us fulfilment and tells us where to buy it - from international flights to a vast array of goods we consume like there is no tomorrow. The truth is, if advertising succeeds in keeping us on ...

Orígenes del socialismo 1800-1848

Ensayo y selección de textos

El libro que tienen en sus manos no es una antología de textos a la que se ha añadido un ensayo aclaratorio como introducción. Más bien al contrario: el núcleo del libro es el ensayo, mientras que el resto es una selección de textos que ...

Born to rule

the making and remaking of the British elite

A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate. Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures ...

Friendly sovereignty

historical perspectives on Carl Schmitt's neglected exception

Over the last one hundred years, the term "sovereignty" has often been associated with the capacity of leaders to declare emergencies and to unleash harmful, extralegal force against those deemed enemies. Friendly Sovereignty explores the blind spots of this influential perspective. Ted H. Miller challenges ...

The liberty paradox

living with the responsibilities of freedom

How do we balance freedom with the responsibilities we owe each other as members of society? Are we free to do whatever we want? This idea challenges us throughout our daily lives, from how to tackle pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates to how to respond ...

Fictions of financialization

rethinking speculation, exploitation and twenty-first century capitalism

'Incisive, politically engaged, and theoretically sophisticated' Ilias Alami, author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets For decades, many people on the left have decried the finance sector as the main culprit for the toxic effects of capitalism. Only by confronting finance, so ...

Crude capitalism

oil, corporate power, and the making of the world market

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our ...

Monstrous anger of the guns

how the global arms trade is ruining the world and what we can do about it

We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we ...

El dogma democrático

La sociedad civil y su gobierno

Rafael Alvira reflexiona sobre la democracia como el fruto del compromiso ciudadano con el bien común. Un análisis filosófico y político que desentraña los desafíos éticos, sociales y espirituales de nuestra época. Más allá de un régimen político, la democracia consiste en la vitalidad de ...

Teoría de la Crisis en Marx

El principal objetivo se Simon Clarke con La teoría de la crisis en Marx es ofrecer un marco rotundo y ampliamente aceptado para el análisis de la crisis desde un punto de vista marxiano. Se trata de una empresa ardua, que ha desafiado en varias ...

Los engreídos

mi contraprograma en favor del civismo y de la cohesión social

Muchos obreros y personas de bajos salarios se han alejado de la política porque están desencantados, otros votan a la extrema derecha por rabia y por falta de alternativas. La causa más importante del avance de la extrema derecha es, por tanto, el fracaso de ...

The return of the Taliban

Afghanistan after the Americans left

The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors A Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan-a scenario few Western commentators ...

How states think

the rationality of foreign policy

A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely ...

The years of theory

postwar French thought to the present

Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political conjunctures, including the Liberation of Paris ...

The commune form

the transformation of everyday life

When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles over land - from the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes to Cop City in Atlanta, from the ...

Multitudes

how crowds made the modern world

Despite what politicians, philosophers and the press have long told us, every peaceful crowd is not a violent mob in waiting. Dan Hancox argues it is time to rethink long-held assumptions about crowd behaviour and psychology, as well as the part crowds play in our ...

Transformar no es cancelar

Tras la crítica a la 'cultura de la cancelación' se esconde un lamento hipócrita y conservador que busca preservar lugares de enunciación privilegiados, así como un eco de resignación. Al mismo tiempo, en el interior de los proyectos emancipatorios hemos observado que en los últimos ...

Libertad

LAS ESPERADAS MEMORIAS DE UNA DE LAS LÍDERES POLÍTICAS MÁS IMPORTANTES DE NUESTRO TIEMPO. Durante dieciséis años, Angela Merkel asumió la responsabilidad de gobernar Alemania y dirigió el país a través de numerosas crisis, moldeando la política nacional, europea e internacional con su actitud y ...