«Мой отец был бедный нефтепромышленник…» – считалось, что от мемуаров Фаины Раневской уцелела лишь эта анекдотическая фраза: все остальные записи она сожгла, вернув издательству аванс, а ее легендарные остроты и афоризмы известны в основном по пересказам. Но прав был булгаковский Воланд: рукописи не горят, и эта книга – уникальная возможность услышать живой голос великой актрисы, которая лишь наедине с собой могла сбросить привычную маску и го ...
The global crisis of our time involves a complex of ecological, economic, technological and migratory challenges that no state is able to control. The result is a provincialisation of our democracies with respect to the new planetary powers confronting humanity. It is from this that our increasingly impotent and rabid politics stems. Paradoxical as it may seem, it is precisely the decline of the nation-state that is the source of the great natio ...
From populist propaganda attacking knowledge as ‘fake news’ to the latest advances in artificial intelligence, human thought is under unprecedented attack today. If computers can do what humans can do and they can do it much faster, what’s so special about human thought? <br /><br />In this new book, bestselling philosopher Markus Gabriel steps back from the polemics to re-examine the very nature of human thought. He conceives of hum ...
Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might think. In After Law , Laurent de Sutter takes us on a journey to uncover the sources of our fascination. He shows that at a certain moment in our history a choice was made to t ...
Few political ideas are as divisive and controversial for some – and yet taken for granted by others – as the ownership of private property. For its defenders, private ownership is a fundamental right that protects individual freedom and ensures wider economic benefits for the community; for its critics, by contrast, property is institutionalised theft, responsible for lamentable levels of inequality and poverty. In this book, Robert Lamb explo ...
The secrecy of the ballot, a crucial basic element of representative democracy, is under threat. Attempts to make voting more convenient in the face of declining turnout – and the rise of the “ballot selfie” – are making it harder to guarantee secrecy. <p>Leading scholars James Johnson and Susan Orr go back to basics to analyze the fundamental issues surrounding the secret ballot, showing how secrecy works to protect voters from coercion a ...
In this short book, Jacques Ranciere takes stock of the state of contemporary politics and examines current developments in the light of his writings. Ranciere takes issue with what he sees as the consolidation in recent years of an increasingly oligarchic class of professional politicians within the system of representative democracy, while simultaneously objecting to leftist animosity towards electoral politics. He discusses a wide range of co ...
«Мой отец был бедный нефтепромышленник…» – считалось, что от мемуаров Фаины Раневской уцелела лишь эта анекдотическая фраза: все остальные записи она сожгла, вернув издательству аванс, а ее легендарные остроты и афоризмы известны в основном по пересказам. Но прав был булгаковский Воланд: рукописи не горят, и эта книга – уникальная возможность услышать живой голос великой актрисы, которая лишь наедине с собой могла сбросить привычную маску и го ...
