This book argues why Critical Theory – as first developed in the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung – must be updated to help us tackling today’s capitalist polycrisis, from economic via political to ecological crises.
Das politische System der Schweiz gilt mit seiner ausgebauten Konkordanz, der direkten Demokratie und seinen föderativen Strukturen in vielerlei Hinsicht sowohl als Vorzeige- als auch als Sonderfall einer funktionierenden Demokratie des 21.
"e;Council democracy"e; is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system.
The author of Human Dignity and Contemporary Liberalism argues that the nature and application of contemporary liberalism is significantly dissonant with the deepest inclinations and most persistent moral sentiments of human beings, and it therefore distorts human self-understanding and defaces human dignity.
Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.
Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.
Motivado por los acontecimientos que ha enfrentado el país en los últimos años, José Rodríguez Elizondo—jurista, académico, autoridad de la Corfo durante el gobierno de Allende y un diplomático eximio— expone en este nuevo libro la compleja relación que existe entre el derecho y la política.
Arguing that Philip Rieff was a Freudian who departed in vital and fascinating ways from Freud, and a committed modern who nevertheless viewed modernity as a disaster, this book makes clear his thought transcends contemporary left-right culture war dichotomies.
This book analyses the strategies and narratives of Non-State Armed Actors (NSAAs), principally relying on primary material and interviews conducted by the author.
There are many questions that the writer of these lines tries to answer in twenty chapters briefly and to illustrate with drawing some of them that require clarification.
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.
La presente recopilación busca constituirse en el cimiento de lo que, según el autor, podría denominarse una percepción alternativa de las diferentes temáticas que aborda, como lo son la prevalencia de la ideología en la ciencia y el Estado, el carácter autopoiético y homogeneizante del Estado Moderno y la incidencia del multiculturalismo y de la participación ciudadana en las formaciones políticas de la América Latina contemporánea.
In the aftermath of World War II, Georgias veterans black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways.
This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic reform and opening up, and the history of China's socialist institutional construction respectively.
This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic reform and opening up, and the history of China's socialist institutional construction respectively.
