verso 1998 london (18 risultati)

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira. Democracy realized: the progressive alternative. London ; New York: Verso, 1998, ix, 309pp., PAPERBACK, very good, BUT foxing on top foredge, text appears unused. CONTENTS: Democratic experimentalism in trouble. -- What is democratic experimentalism? -- Vanguards and rearguards. -- Three programs for the reorganization of firms. -- Neoliberalism and its discontents. -- A progressive alternative. -- Beyond institutions. -- The constitutional organization of government and the legal framework of electoral politics. -- The organization of civil society and the protection of rights. -- The organization of public finance and of the economy. -- Democracy and the left. -- An appendix on saving and investment. -- Proper-names index. -- Thematic index. ISBN 1859840094.

Very good in very lightly edgeworn jacket hardbound Price sticker on back jacket.

dust-jacket looks great but black from spine has stained it at the bottom, visible from reverse, light moisture stain at bottom of spine, with color running off onto endpaper and back of jacket, otherwise still very good black half-cloth with gray boards, book actually appears unused. UNGER, ROBERTO MANGABEIRA. Democracy realized: the progressive alternative - slightly DAMAGED COPY. London ; New York: Verso, 1998, ix, 309pp., . CONTENTS: I. An Argument. Democratic Experimentalism in Trouble. What is Democratic Experimentalism? Vanguards and Rearguards. Three Programs for the Reorganization of Firms. Neoliberalism and its Discontents. A Progressive Alternative. Beyond Institutions -- II. A Manifesto. The Constitutional Organization of Government and the Legal Framework of Electoral Politics. The Organization of Civil Society and the Protection of Rights. The Organization of Public Finance and of the Economy. Democracy and the Left. An Appendix on Saving and Investment / Zhiyuan Cui. 9781859849835 ISBN 1859849830.

181 S., Pappband (Hardcover), OU, 8°. Zustand: sehr gut.Gewicht: 480 g English Edition - Text in Englisch.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Translated by Peter Snowdon. 8vo. xxiv, 136 pp. Original stiff photographic wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.

336 Seiten. Kartoniert. Zustand: 3, Gebrauchsspuren, sonst gut erhalten. ISBN 1859841597.

black & grey 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1998 & NAP). ix+307p. appendix. proper names index. thematic index. philosophy. politics. sociology. economics. ~ Roberto Mangabeira Unger is widely regarded as one of the leading living social theorists. His earlier works have been hailed as "the most powerful social theory of the second half of the twentieth century" (Geoffrey Hawthorn). Perry Anderson has described Unger as a "philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables to become synoptist and seer of the First." His efforts to inspire practical alternatives to neoliberalism have drawn increasing attention throughout the world as well as in his native Brazil. In this new work, Unger gives detailed content to the conception of a progressive alternative in contemporary politics. The touchstone of this alternative is its experimentalism about institutions: its willingness to reimagine and remake the ways we organize representative democracies, market economies, and free civil societies. Unger shows that neither developed nor developing countries can achieve the vaunted synthesis of American~style economic flexibility and European~style social protection without changing their institutions. Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative attacks both neoliberalism and institutionally conservative social democracy, and maps out the initial steps in a path they foreclose toward the deepening of democracy and the quickening of economic growth. By drawing on the experience of both rich and poor countries, this book shows how all nations are being drawn into the same worldwide debate. In an age when leftist and progressive forces are marked by timidity and defensiveness, Unger's Democracy Realized restores energy and direction to the imagination of alternative futures for society. It turns hope into insight.

Hard Cover in Dj. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First British Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Grey boards with orange text on spine, 305pp. ix,305 pp "Starting with a discussion of the treatment of food and love by figures such as Marx, as well as contemporary historical and sociological notions of modernisation, this text examines phenomena such as: the uniqueness of the European family; the development of romantic love; the evolution of national and regional cuisines; the globalisation of Chinese food; and the histories of various taboos on certain food and drink. Throughout the book,the author aims to demonstrate that the ethnocentricity of much of Western scholarship has distorted not only the comprehension of the East but also developments in Europe's past and present" - Publisher's description.

Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. softcover. 218pp. index, Very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. SALECL, RENATA (Per)Versions of love and hate. [HARDCOVER]. London: Verso Books, 1998. 8vo., viii, 184 p., b/w ills. Original binding. Dust wrapper. Very good ISBN: 9781859848395 CATALOG: Women studies KEYWORDS: Women studies philosophy sociology Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire things because they are unavailable, and therefore, to keep desire alive, we need to prevent its fulfilment? Love and hate go hand in hand, since the subject is both attracted and repelled by the uncontrollable jouissance of the other. In contemporary society, intersubjective relations have changed with the decline of social prohibitions; but this change has not simply brought liberation, it has also triggered various forms of violence, including self-mutilation. In seeking out new forms of prohibition, don't young people who pierce their bodies have something in common with African immigrants who embrace clitoridectomy, or with women who act on their dates according to the instructions set out in the Rules? In Perversions of Love and Hate, Renata Salecl explores the disturbing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through investigation of phenomena as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, Hollywood melodramas, the Siren song, Ceaucescu's Rumania and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. For Salecl--who questions the legitimacy of the calls for tolerance and respect by multiculturalists--practices such as body-mutilation are symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo. vi + 602pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, index, Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch, and finds that the stigmatisation of the ethno-religious Other was given a callous twist by a new culture of consumption, freed from an earlier moral economy.

1st edition thus stiff wrappers Fine octavo 232pp., diags., notes, index,

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine octavo xxii + 391pp., b/w pls.,text ills., bibliog., index, Theatres of Memory, Volume II : The multiple meanings of National myth.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 375 pages. Published in 1998. Retrospective collection of essays and occasional journalism. Benedict Anderson's most accessible, elegant, and engaging book. The First Hardcover Edition. The true first. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Issued with and without DJ editions, as is typical of the publisher. Without DJ, as issued. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Benedict Anderson's "The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, And The World". His best book since "Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread of Nationalism" (1983). "His most telling and incisive interventions have been his essays. Those collected in this book span a range of subjects: From Aquino's Philippines, where the horses on the haciendas ate better than the stable-hands, to political assassination in contemporary Thailand, where government posts have become so lucrative that to gain them, candidates will kill their rivals. The subtle imbrication of politics, national imaginings, bureaucracy, modernization, and its agents (particularly print culture) is brought out in all its complexity and richness. 'The spectre of comparisons' was a phrase by the Filipino nationalist and novelist Jose Rizal (1861-96) whose work and fate in the national imagination are discussed. Contains important theoretical and historical considerations about nationalism, national literature and memory, modernization, and the prospects for the Left in what Anderson dubs 'The New World Disorder' " (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Benedict Anderson collectors. This title is great collection. This is one of few copies of the true First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (Verso) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the Softcover Edition. Copies available online have very serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the most important and influential historian/thinkers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BENEDICT ANDERSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1859848133. no.

1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo x + 181pp., bibliog., index, Inc. three short essays on the implications of the holocaust for human nature & certain types of Marxist explanation.

3 nn. Bl., 87 S., OPappband mit OU., tadelloser Zustand. Mit hs. Widmung Hobsbawm`s für die Witwe seines Freundes Georg Eisler auf dem Vortitelblatt, 5 Zeilen.

Condizione: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG. 24x16cm, xxii,391 pp "This work offers an account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles of the four nations that inhabit the British Isles. Raphael Samuel is interested by the face that traditions can disappear no less abruptly than they were invented. How is it, he asks, that the Scots have lost interest in a British narrative of which they were once a central protagonist? Why is the celebration of "Britons" thriving today just as its object has become problematic? The book conveys the mutability of national conceits. Samuels calls as witness numerous authorities - Bede and Gerald of Barri, Macaulay and Stubbs, Shakespeare and Dickens, Lord Reith and Raymond Williams, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Benn - each of whom sought to renew the sense of national identity by means of an acute sense of the past. A sequel to "Theatres of Memory", the book is a study of the way nations use their past to lend meaning to the present and future" - Publisher's description.

1990s reprint, softcover. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 251pp. Inscribed by author on title page: "Le Deseo Mucha Salud Rigoberta". Bookshop sticker to rear wrapper, else a Fine copy. First published as Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchú Y Asi Me Nació La Conciencia (1983). Menchú's landmark autobiography, written with Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, describes in detail the atrocities committed against indigenous peoples during the Guatemalan Civil War. Menchú was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Ann Wright's English translation has never been out of print and the book is now considered a canonical work of Native American writing. [85364].