Product Description: The seventh set of the renowned philosophy series: beautiful covers, bargain price, classic theory.This shrinkwrapped set contains all twelve titles in volume 7 of the Verso Radical Thinkers series at a discounted price: Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology by André Gorz Critique of Instrumental Reason by Max Horkheimer Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou The Fiery Brook: Selected Writings by Ludwig Feuerbach Freudianism: A Marxist Critique by Valentin Vološinov Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch Rationality and Irrationality in Economics by Maurice Godelier Sex-pol: Essays, 1929–1934 by Wilhelm ReichA Singular Modernity by Fredric Jameson The Spirit of Terrorism by Jean Baudrillard Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Žižek...read more

Product Description: What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be advanced today?These are among the crucial questions confronted by Maurice Godelier, the world’s most distinguished Marxist anthropologist, in this key book of contemporary social theory...read more

Product Description: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in all parts of the Melanesian region of the Pacific bring their expertise to bear on a single theoretical issue...read more

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Product Description: Esta obra evalúa el papel y la importancia del don en el funcionamiento de las sociedades y en la constitución de las relaciones sociales. El terreno, claro está, no es virgen: lo rastreó ya, entre otros, Marcel Mauss, que llegó a la conclusión de que el hecho de que se devuelvan las cosas donadas se debe a que en éstas exi ste un espíritu que las impulsa a volver a las manos de su donador original...read more

Product Description: What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be advanced today? These are among the crucial questions confronted by Godelier in this key book of contemporary social theory...read more

Product Description: The Baruya are a tribal society in highlands Papua New Guinea, with whom Western contact was first made in 1951. During the last twenty years, Maurice Godelier has spent many long periods of time living among this people, and in this book he presents a detailed account of their lives and their forms of social organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Baruya are a tribal society in highlands Papua New Guinea, with whom Western contact was first made in 1951. During the last twenty years, Maurice Godelier has spent many long periods of time living among this people, and in this book he presents a detailed account of their lives and their forms of social organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Employs Marxist concepts to study production, distribution, and consumption systems, focusing on the social factors that transform economic processes. Bibliogs

Product Description: This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions:First, what is the rationality of the economic systems that appear and disappear throughout history—in other words, what is their hidden logic and the underlying necessity for them to exist, or to have existed?Second, what are the conditions for a rational understanding of these systems—in other words, for a fully developed comparative economic science?The field of investigation opened up by these two questions is vast, touching on the foundations of social reality and on how to understand them...read more