The renowned prose-stylist and urbanist behind the groundbreaking "City Of Quartz" embarks on a book-length engagement with Marx, giving his thoughts on how history, labour, capitalism and revolution might be most constructively understood. Much anticipated, this is Davis's first book on Marxism directly.
The renowned prose-stylist and urbanist behind the groundbreaking "City Of Quartz" embarks on a book-length engagement with Marx, giving his thoughts on how history, labour, capitalism and revolution might be most constructively understood. Much anticipated, this is Davis's first book on Marxism directly.
Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and class in works such as City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums. His last two non-fiction books are Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface: Marx at the Chicken Shack 1. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency 2. Marx’s Lost Theory: The Politics of Nationalism in 1848 3. The Coming Desert: Kropotkin, Mars, and the Pulse of Asia 4. Who Will Build the Ark? Notes Index
Preface: Marx at the Chicken Shack 1. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency 2. Marx’s Lost Theory: The Politics of Nationalism in 1848 3. The Coming Desert: Kropotkin, Mars, and the Pulse of Asia 4. Who Will Build the Ark? Notes Index
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