MEIKSINS-WOOD ELLEN

(P/B) A SOCIAL HISTORY OF WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon, while largely the work of members or clients of dominant classes, was shaped by complex int...
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(P/B) The Origin of Capitalism
How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very spec...
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Η ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΥ
Ο καπιταλισμός καθιστά δυνατή μια νέα μορφή κυριαρχίας με καθαρά οικονομικά μέσα, υποστηρίζει η Έλεν Μέικσινς Γουντ. Έτσι, ακόμη και τα πιο έμπειρα γεράκια του Λευκού Οίκου θα προτιμούσαν να ασκούν την παγκόσμια ηγεμονία με αυτόν τον τρόπο, χωρίς τις δαπανηρές αποικιακές περιπλοκές. Ωστόσο, όπως τονίζει πειστικά η Γουντ, η οικονομική αυτοκρατορία του κεφαλαίου έχει επίσης δημιουργήσει έναν νέο και χωρίς όρια μιλιταρισμό. Αντιπαραθέτοντας τον νέο ιμπεριαλισμό με άλλες ιστορικές μορφές, όπως η Ρωμαϊκή και η Ισπανική Αυτοκρατορία, και ακολουθ...
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(P/B) DEMOCRACY AGAINST CAPITALISM
Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference," and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political power. She goes on to explore the concept of democracy ...
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(P/B) THE RETREAT FROM CLASS
Exploring the connections between class, ideology and politics. In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in "post-Marxist" theory. Challenging their dissociation of politics from class, she elaborates her own original conception of the complex relations between class, ideology and politics. In the process, Wood explores the links between socialism and democracy and reinterprets the relationship between liberal and socialist democracy. In a new introduct...
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(P/B) CITIZENS TO LORDS
A major new history of Western political thought as it evolved through conflict and communities. In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history - a significant departure not only from the standard abstract history of ideas but also from other contextual methods. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not s...
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(P/B) LIBERTY AND PROPERTY
The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Asse...
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(P/B) THE PRISTINE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM
Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of 'bourgeois' society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a 'modern' state and political culture in Continental Europe, signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a 'modern' state and political discourse in England testi...
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Η ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΠΙΤΑΛΙΣΜΟ
Δεν υπήρξε ποτέ άλλοτε περίοδος, από την εποχή του Μαρξ, κατά την οποία η κριτική του καπιταλισμού να είναι τόσο αναγκαία, καθώς όλο και περισσότεροι κλάδοι της γνώσης, του πολιτισμού, των κοινωνικών επιστημών και της οικονομικής σκέψης μοιάζουν να απορροφώνται από τις αυτο-επικυρωτικές παραδοχές του καπιταλισμού ή από μια ηττοπαθή πεποίθηση ότι τίποτε άλλο δεν είναι δυνατό. Αυτή η άποψη βρίσκεται στην καρδιά του βιβλίου της Ε. Μ. Γουντ. Ενός βιβλίου που οριοθετείται από τη στάση όσων αριστερών διανοουμένων προσπαθούν να ορίσουν νέους δρόμ...
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(P/B) EMPIRE OF CAPITAL (1844675181)

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