In this book, Franco Berardi presents an examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture - and a clarion call for a 'conspiracy of estranged people'.
"A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world. Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world--smartphones, fast intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked refrigerators-…
Introduction: To live a life elsewhere -- White is the color of freedom -- Waiting on a white man's chance -- Lost kin -- Searching for a new soul in Harlem -- Coming home -- Epilogue: On identity.
It was a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy J…
[Description]Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and losses that racial indeterminacy presen…
"This book deepens and challenges discourses in current continental philosophy relating to the experience of alienation and the conditions for communal life. It contributes to an important debate in contemporary political theory concerning the assumptions of the liberal politica…
The author assesses the role of alientation in the philosophy of Marx, looks at the social production of personality, and discusses responses to alienation in contemporary society. The book concludes with a focus on the future of alienation, followed by a bibliography. "This bo…
Der frühe Marx und die Revolution: eine Vorlesung
Das Buch ist eine gut verständliche Einführung in das Werk von Karl Marx, mitsamt seiner Nachwirkungen bis heute. Sein Werk wird dabei nicht als ein vergangenes behandelt, sondern als ein theoretischer wie politischer Ansatz, der noch immer – oder heute erst recht – auf provokat…