Böcker av Goran Therborn

A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politicsIn this pithy and panoramic workboth stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general readerone of the world's leading social theorists, Gran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first.

Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics

A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist.

Connects world inequality to different national constellations of class and power, and transnational processes. Ranging from the US and post-Communist Russia to France and China, and spanning social mobility, labor markets, working-class cultures and global science, this volume contributes to our understanding of world politics and development.

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world.

* Written by an author of international stature, very well-known in the worlds of sociology and politics and in left-of-centre politics.

To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more similar to others on the globe or more distinctively European? What are the prospects of Europe after decades of postwar change and the end of the Cold War? This title addresses these questions.

This work provides a global history and sociology, and a comparative political analysis of the family as an institution It focuses on: the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on fertility and birth-control.

An original and decisive contribution to the contemporary debate on the central Marxist concept of ideology.

Set 16 of Verso's Radical Thinkers series.On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, four titles that consider the life and works of Karl Marx.