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Selections From New Left Review 2

 

5.5 x 8.5 inches, 308pp. 2006

ISBN : 9788170464815

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Each volume in this series brings together a collection of articles, reviews, essays and interviews from NEW LEFT REVIEW—a key journal of the international Left. The books aim to cover a wide variety of issues ranging from world politics and the global economy; state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory; history and philosophy; cinema and literature; heterodox art and aesthetics.

 

Contributors: Perry Anderson, Retort, Susan Willis, Robert Brenner, Günter Grass, Pierre Bourdieu, Andrea Boltho, David Rock, Radhika Desai, Wang Chaohua, Éric Hazan, Mustafa Barghouti, Tariq Ali, Andrew Bacevich, Emmanuel Terray and Victoria Brittain

 

CONTENTS:

(1) Preface

(2) Force and Consent by Perry Anderson

(3) Afflicted Powers by Retort

(4) Empire’s Shadow by Susan Willis

(5) New Boom or New Bubble? by Robert Brenner

(6) The ‘Progressive’ Restoration by Günter Grass and Pierre Bourdieu

(7) What’s wrong with Europe? by Andrea Boltho

(8) Racking Argentina by David Rock

(9) Forward March or Hindutva Halted? by Radhika Desai

(10) A Tale of Two Nationalisms by Wang Chaohua

(11) Palestinian Defiance by Éric Hazan and Mustafa Barghouti

(12) Between Hammer and Anvil by Tariq Ali

(13) A Modern Major General by Andrew Bacevich

(14) Headscarf Hysteria by Emmanuel Terray

(15) Cuba in Africa by Victoria Brittain

(16) Notes on Contributors

 

Politics
Culture Studies