Andy Merrifield

Broschiertes Buch

Marx, Dead and Alive

Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

Beschreibung

Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, with collusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights

Autor

ANDY MERRIFIELD is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerous articles, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, New Left Review, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Jacobin, and Dissent. He is a prolific writer about urbanism, political theory and literature, with titles credited to him including Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review Press), The New Urban Question, and Magical Marxism. He has also published three intellectual biographies, of Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and John Berger, a popular existential travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys, a manifesto for liberated living, The Amateur, together with a memoir about cities and love, inspired by Raymond Carver's short stories, called What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Monthly Review Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 124mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 202g
• ISBN-13: 9781583678794
• ISBN-10: 1583678794
• Artikelnr.: 59182384