
Writing on the Wall, The - On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics
Zero Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 29. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-78535-581-3 (ISBN)
Description
The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such an eventuality would inevitably result in the liberation of humanity, as many orthodox Marxists claim? Through a collection of specially revised essays, first published in France between 2007 and 2010, Anselm Jappe draws on the radical new perspective of "the critique of value" as a critical tool with which to understand today's world and to re-examine the question of human emancipation. The Writing on the Wall offers a powerful new analysis of the decomposition of capitalism and its critics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-581-3 (9781785355813)
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09/2017
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Persons
Alastair Hemmens is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Cardiff University School of Modern Languages. He gained his PhD in French and Comparative Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris. Hemmens lives in Cardiff, Wales.