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Old Gods, New Enigmas

- Marx's Lost Theory

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 320 sider

Beskrivelse

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx's inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause--and solution--of the planetary environmental crisis?

Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx's theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a "lost Marx," whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the "middle landscape" of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the "anthropocene," which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism's failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880-1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal320
  • Udgivelsesdato11-02-2025
  • ISBN139781804298206
  • Forlag Verso
  • Nummer i serien429
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt367 g
  • Dybde2,7 cm
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    10 cm
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    21,5 cm
    28,1 cm

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