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Foucault with Marx

By: Jacques Bidet

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With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and Foucauldian criticisms of capitalist modernity. For Marx, the intersection between capital and the market is crucial, while for Foucault, the organizational aspects of capital are what really matter. According to Marx, the ruling class is identified with property; with Foucault, it is the managers who hold power and knowledge that rule. Bidet identifies these two sides of capitalist modernity as 'market' and 'organization', showing that each leads to specific forms of social conflict; against exploitation and austerity, over wages and pensions on the one hand, and against forms of 'medical' and work-based discipline, control of bodies and prisons on the other. Bidet's impetus and clarity however serve a greater purpose: uniting two souls of critical social theory, in order to overcome what has become an age-long separation between the 'old left' and the 'new social movements'.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1783605405

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9781783605408

A Political Ecology of Common People

By: Jacques Bidet

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A Political Ecology of Common People

By: Jacques Bidet

This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one and the same thing. The approach is inspired by Marx’s theory, as revisited through Bourdieu and Foucault, Rawls and Habermas, and Ostrom and Wallerstein. Based on a new concept, that of “metastructure” which defines the relationship between the structural and the symbolic, it confronts contemporary debates on class, gender andcoloniality, as well as on the state, the nation and the World-System. Global social-ecological destruction is thus analysed on three registers: that of capital, which produces for profit; that of (supposed) competent authority, which produces to produce; and that of the nation, which produces to conquer. Consumerism follows from productivism, not the other way around. The question of need takes precedence over that of desire. This metastructural configuration poses the imperative constantly renewed to counter the blind logic of capital with a rational logic of organisation, and, at the same time, to counter the logic of the organisers through a democratic discursive logic. This latter is the recourse of common people. The Global South is on the front line of this struggle; and women’s struggle bears its own decisive ecological impulse.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000962318

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9781000962314

A Political Ecology of Common People

By: Jacques Bidet

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Foucault with Marx

By: Jacques Bidet

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Foucault with Marx

By: Jacques Bidet

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783605391

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Exploring Marx's Capital

Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions

By: Jacques Bidet

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Exploring Marx's Capital

Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions

By: Jacques Bidet

This volume, originally published in French under the title Que faire du Capital?, offers a new interpretation of Marx’s great work. It shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx’s theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a ‘pure’ economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an economic and a political aspect, neither of these being separable from the other. Jacques Bidet conducts an unprecedented investigation of Marx’s work in the spirit of the history of science, exploring it as a process of theoretical development. Traditional exegesis reads the successive drafts of Capital as if they were complementary and mutually illuminated one another. In actual fact, like any scientist, Marx only wrote a new version in order to correct the previous one. He started from ideas borrowed from Ricardo and Hegel, and between one draft and the next it is possible to see these being eliminated and restructured. This labour, moreover, was never fully completed. The author thus re-assesses Marx’s entire system in its set of constitutive categories: value, market, labour-power, classes, working class, exploitation, production, fetishism, ideology. He seeks to pin down the difficulties that these encountered, and the analytical and critical value they still have today. Bidet attaches the greatest importance to Marx’s order of exposition, which assigns each concept its place in the overall system, and makes the validity of the construction depend on the pertinence of its initial presuppositions. This is particularly the case with the relationship between market mechanism and capitalism – and thus also between the market and socialism. This books an English translation of Jacques Bidet, Que faire du capital? Philosophie, economie et politique dans "La Capital" de Marx, published y Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2000.

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BRILL

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9047408810

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9789047408819

Korean Unification

Inevitable Challenges

By: Jacques L. Fuqua

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Korean Unification

Inevitable Challenges

By: Jacques L. Fuqua

One day, one nation on the Korean Peninsula

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597972797

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Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles

et les autres Unités d'habitation à Rezé-les-Nantes, Berlin, Briey en Forêt et Firminy / and the four other unité blocks

By: Jacques Sbriglio

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Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles

et les autres Unités d'habitation à Rezé-les-Nantes, Berlin, Briey en Forêt et Firminy / and the four other unité blocks

By: Jacques Sbriglio

the Unité in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unité in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhäuser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unités in Rezé-les-Nantes, Briey en Forêt, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.

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3035603936

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9783035603934

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

By: Jacques Lacan

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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

By: Jacques Lacan

In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts. During the seminar he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy, and the tragic dimension of analytical experience. One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.

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Routledge

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1317761863

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Savage

By: Jacques Jouet

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Savage

By: Jacques Jouet

Alluding to Jean-Paul Sartre's famous study of Gustave Flaubert, Jouet's recent book asks, "What, at this point in time, can we make of a man?" As a member of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littrature Potentielle), a group of French writers and mathematicians who use constrained writing techniques for inspiration, Jouet's literary output is often characterized as avant-garde. This is a work of fiction based upon the life of painter Paul Gauguin. The prose is a first-person stream of consciousness that follows Paul, a clothing designer, in search of inspiration. Traveling among the people of France's colonies, Paul adopts a radical approach to design and, in the process, unravels his own sense of civility among the "savages." While his ideas expand artistically, his body and mind deteriorate physically from disease. In the end, the reader wonders whether Paul gained insight at the expense of sanity or vice versa. Often fascinating and brilliant, this book contains much of value for the patient reader, but it is not for everyone. Recommended for those interested in subversive and experimental fiction.Joshua Finnell, McNeese State Univ. Lib., Lake Charles, LA Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564785351

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Derrida

By: Geoffrey Bennington,Jacques Derrida

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Derrida

By: Geoffrey Bennington,Jacques Derrida

Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own excerpts from his life and thought that, appearing at the bottom of each page, resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a remarkably in-depth, critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century and, at the same time, demonstrate the illusions inherent in such a project. Bennington's account of Derrida, broader in scope than any previously done, leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet still widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar and altogether more mysterious themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. Seeking to escape this systematic rendering - in fact, to prove it impossible - Derrida interweaves Bennington's text with surprising and disruptive "periphrases": reflections on his mother's death agony, commentaries on St. Augustine's Confessions, memories of childhood, remarks on Judaism, and references to his collaborator's efforts. This extraordinary book offers, on the one hand, a clear and compelling account of one of the most difficult and important contemporary thinkers and, on the other, one of that thinker's strangest and most unexpected texts. Far from putting an end to the need to discuss Derrida, Bennington's text might have originally intended or pretended, this dual text opens new dimensions in the philosopher's thought and work and extends its challenge.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226042618

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Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism

The True New Green Deal

By: Jacques Richard

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Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism

The True New Green Deal

By: Jacques Richard

There is a substantial body of work emerging currently, seeking to address the problems caused by the economic model that has dominated the world for the last several hundred years – not least the negative impacts on the environment and sustainable health of the biosphere. This book adds to that body of literature, and brings an interesting new set of ideas into play. The author offers an approach to the philosophies and politics of nature based on a reinterpretation of the history of capitalism, in particular its concept of capital. It leads to a new anti-capitalist conception of the philosophy of ecology which takes into account at the same time history, ethics, politics, law and economics. By linking philosophy, law, economics and management, this work seeks to go beyond the mono-disciplinary and purely theoretical approaches which often characterize works devoted to the philosophy of nature, or the philosophy of ecology. It proposes a concrete philosophical alternative to modern capitalism which leads to ecological co-management and care at all levels of society, including that of political bodies, and the reform of constitutions and parliaments. In short, it is a book for a theory and a practice of environmental action in the broad sense within the framework of an institutional revolution passing in particular through the heart of the capitalist system.

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Ethics International Press

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1804413399

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9781804413395

Le Corbusier. The Villa Savoye

By: Jacques Sbriglio

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Le Corbusier. The Villa Savoye

By: Jacques Sbriglio

With its uncompromising and clear construction, the Villa Savoye, completed in 1931, established Le Corbusier s reputation as an undisputed master of twentieth-century architecture. André Malraux placed it on the historic register in 1964. In this guide, historic documents and new photographs provide an in-depth presentation both to visitors to the site and to interested readers at home.

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3035603952

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Foucault with Marx

Foucault with Marx

A Political Ecology of Common People

A Political Ecology of Common People

A Political Ecology of Common People

A Political Ecology of Common People

Foucault with Marx

Foucault with Marx

Exploring Marx's Capital

Exploring Marx's Capital

Korean Unification

Korean Unification

Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles

Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

Savage

Savage

Derrida

Derrida

Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism

Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism

Le Corbusier. The Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier. The Villa Savoye

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