Essays discuss relativism, knowledge, creativity, progress, Aristotle, Galileo, cultural pluralism, and reason.
"Parts of this book appeared originally under the same title in Harper's Magazine, May 17, 2017" -- T.p verso.
Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism
A new and essential history of the Labour new left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn.
A post-capitalist manifesto for conservation
An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures
A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of seventeenth-century England
Asserts that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other.
With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux.In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualizes these developments, surveying the accumulated experience of humanity with regard to such phenomena as the organization of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the evolution of Western conjugal and familial traditions from their roots in the nineteenth century to the present. The conclusion he draws is that it is never the case that a man and a woman are sufficient on their own to raise a child, and nowhere are relations of kinship or the family the keystone of society.Godelier argues that the changes of the last thirty years do not herald the disappearance or death agony of kinship, but rather its remarkable metamorphosisone that, ironically, is bringing us closer to the ';traditional' societies studied by ethnologists.
Eminent Marxist intellectual reveals class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium.
A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world.
How all great powers decline-including the US
Exploring the close relationship between the real, the symbolic and imaginary
A renowned historian introduces Mary Wollestonecraft's seminal feminist tract
In 1776 Thomas Jefferson, a future president authored the most explosive document in the history of America: "The Declaration of Independence", formally severing the link between America and the British state. This book examines this and other texts by Jefferson.
How public land has been stolen from us
Path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supporters
The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism.
How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule
Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right
A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli literature from the 1940s to the present.
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