Search results for “[Subject: system-theory]”

• Author(s): Immanuel Wallerstein • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Economic HistoryIn this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred ...

• Author(s): Nancy Fraser • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralA scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophers Capitalism, by the twenty-f...

• Author(s): Michele Barrett • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryAlthough family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society c...

• Author(s): Kathi Weeks • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalA groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subjectOne of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subj...

• Author(s): Goran Therborn • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFew concepts have been so intensively discussed or so widely sponsored as that of "ideology." Whether read as the expression of social classes o...

• Author(s): Yoshiyuki Sato • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalProposes a provocative reinterpretation of poststructuralist theory of power The "structuralist" theories of power show that the subject is produced and r...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Movements - ExistentialismJean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy's leading intellectuals In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jea...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTerry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a nove...

• Author(s): Ernest Mandel • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismLeon Trotsky has become one of the twentieth century's most enduring political legends. Joining the ...

• Author(s): Leopoldina Fortunati • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThe definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and 'caring' labor to emerge...

• Author(s): Peter Dews • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book Peter Dews explores some of the most urgent problems confronting contemporary European thought: the status of the subject af...

• Author(s): Étienne Balibar • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalWith Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and ma...

• Author(s): John Roberts • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryIn this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde ...