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  • Guy Debord

    by Anselm Jappe ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord’s theoretical work into “French theory.” Jappe’s focus, to the contrary, is on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventures of the Commodity

    For a Critique of Value

    by Anselm Jappe ...
    Series series Critical Theory and the Critique of Society
    The Adventures of the Commodity explores conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour.A distinctive introduction to critiques of capitalism and commodity society, this book illuminates the difficult concept of 'abstract' labour. Merging this with the social critique known as the “critique of value”, first developed by Robert ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Guy Debord

    by Anselm Jappe ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord's theoretical work into French theory. Jappe focuses, to the contrary, on Debord's ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • The Writing on the Wall

    On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics

    by Anselm Jappe ...
    Translated by Alastair Hemmens ...
    The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such an eventuality would inevitably result in the liberation of humanity, as many orthodox Marxists ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Enlightenment's Wake

    Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

    by John Gray ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern whichbrought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wake in 1995 – six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. ... Read more

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  • Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

    An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber

    by Anthony Giddens ...
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  • Marxism: For and Against

    by Robert L. Heilbroner ...
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  • Mute Compulsion

    A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

    by Søren Mau ...
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    The Limits of the Market

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    by Alex Law ...
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