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Showing 1 - 12 of 13 results for “alberto toscano”
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  • A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis

    The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali

    by Alberto Toscano ...
    The true story of the Tour de France winner who cycled all over Mussolini's Italy in a secret quest to rescue hundreds of Jewish lives.Cyclist Gino Bartali won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice. But these weren't his only achievements.Deeply religious, Bartali quietly agreed during the dark years of fascist rule to work with the Resistance and pass messages ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Late Fascism

    Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

    by Alberto Toscano ...
    How do we understand the return of fascism today?In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to this state of affairs?Late Fascism turns to theories of fascism produced in the past century, testing their capacity to illuminate our moment and challenging many of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Abolition Geography

    Essays Towards Liberation

    by Ruth Wilson Gilmore ...
    THE POLITICS OF ABOLITION: The first-ever collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography, police brutality, and mass incarceration.“. . . . filled with sharp intelligence and even wit . . . Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways.” —NPRGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fanaticism

    On the Uses of an Idea

    by Alberto Toscano ...
    A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of CivilizationsIt is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside political orthodoxy. Alberto Toscano’s compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Unrealizable

    Towards a Politics of Ontology

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Alberto Toscano ...
    Series series The Italian List
    A patient, genealogical investigation of the dichotomies that are foundational to the Western philosophical tradition.We are so used to distinguishing between the possible and the real, between essence and existence that we do not realize that these distinctions, which seem so obvious to us, are the result of a long and laborious process that has led to the splitting of being—the “matter” of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Sick of the System

    Why the COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary

    by James T. Brophy, nicole marie burton, John Clarke, Anita Girvan, Harry Glasbeek, Dallas Hunt, Andrew Jackson, Emma Jackson, El Jones, Margaret M. Keith, Gary Kinsman, Julie S. Lalonde, Wayne Lewchuk, Robyn Maynard, Jane E. McArthur, Alexander McClelland, Karen Messing, Justin Piché, Elaine Power, Gina Starblanket, Jamie Swift, Richard Swift, Kai Cheng Thom, Alberto Toscano, Hugh D.A. Goldring ...
    Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Marxism

    Edited by Bev Skeggs, Sara Farris, Alberto Toscano, Svenja Bromberg ...
    The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy. Marxian frameworks, concepts and categories continue to be narratively relevant to the features and events of contemporary capitalism. Most crucially, an attention to shifting cultural conditions has lead contemporary researchers to re-confront some classical and essential Marxist concepts, as ... Read more

    $402.29 USD

  • Prophets of Deceit

    A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

    by Leo Lowenthal, Norbert Guterman ...
    How authoritarian and racist discourse functionsA classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the application of psychosocial manipulation for political ends. The book details psychological deceits that idealogues or authoritarians commonly used. The techniques are grouped under the headings "Discontent", ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Logics of Worlds

    Being and Event II

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Alberto Toscano ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Cartographies of the Absolute

    by Alberto Toscano, Jeff Kinkle ...
    Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness, invisibility and complexity ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Badiou and Hegel

    Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity

    by Gabriel Riera, Tzuchien Tho, Alberto Toscano, A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Norman Madarasz, Adriel M. Trott, Frank Ruda ...
    Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel. Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss the relationship between the thinkers, creating a multifarious collection of essays by Hegelians, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Theoretical Writings

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is ... Read more

    $29.99 USD