Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis (Jacobin) - Softcover

Buch 3 von 13: Jacobin

Kunkel, Benjamin

 
9781781683279: Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis (Jacobin)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781683271 ISBN 13: 9781781683279
Verlag: Verso Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.

But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored
outside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust leads readers – whether politically committed or simply curious – through the most important critical theory today. Written with the wit and verve of Kunkel’s best-selling novel, Indecision, this introduction to contemporary Leftist thinkers engages with the revolutionary philosophy of Slavoj Žižek, the economic analyses of David Graeber and David Harvey, and the cultural diagnoses of Fredric Jameson.

Discussing the ongoing crisis of capitalism in light of ideas of full employment, debt forgiveness, and “fictitious capital,” Utopia or Bust is a tour through the world of Marxist thought and an examination of the basis of Western society today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Benjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecision and a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781683271
ISBN 13 
9781781683279
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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