Social Pollution and Women's Health by Mavis Kirkham

Exploring Marx's Capital: Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions (Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 14)

David Fernbach (tr. ), Alex Callinicos (Foreword)

This quantity, initially released in French less than the name Que faire du Capital? , bargains a brand new interpretation of Marx’s nice paintings. It exhibits how the newness and lasting curiosity of Marx’s conception arises from the truth that, as opposed to the undertaking of a ‘pure’ economics, it truly is formulated in ideas that experience concurrently an monetary and a political point, neither of those being separable from the opposite. Jacques Bidet conducts an unheard of research of Marx’s paintings within the spirit of the background of technological know-how, exploring it as a means of theoretical improvement. conventional exegesis reads the successive drafts of Capital as though they have been complementary and collectively illuminated each other. actually, like all scientist, Marx purely wrote a brand new model which will right the former one. He begun from principles borrowed from Ricardo and Hegel, and among one draft and the subsequent it truly is attainable to determine those being eradicated and restructured. This labour, furthermore, used to be by no means totally accomplished. the writer hence re-assesses Marx’s complete approach in its set of constitutive different types: price, marketplace, labour-power, sessions, operating type, exploitation, construction, fetishism, ideology. He seeks to pin down the problems that those encountered, and the analytical and important worth they nonetheless have at the present time. Bidet attaches the best significance to Marx’s order of exposition, which assigns every one thought its position within the total procedure, and makes the validity of the development depend upon the pertinence of its preliminary presuppositions. this is often rather the case with the connection among marketplace mechanism and capitalism – and therefore additionally among the marketplace and socialism.

The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences (Revised Edition)

Video game idea is principal to figuring out human habit and appropriate to all the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political technology. in spite of the fact that, because the Bounds of cause demonstrates, video game idea by myself can't totally clarify human habit and may in its place supplement different key techniques championed via the behavioral disciplines.

Regionalism and the humanities

Even supposing the framework of regionalist reports could appear to be crumbling below the burden of accelerating globalization, this number of seventeen essays makes transparent that cultivating regionalism lies on the heart of the humanist recreation. With interdisciplinary contributions from poets and fiction writers, literary historians, musicologists, and historians of structure, agriculture, and ladies, this quantity implements essentially the most cutting edge and interesting methods to the historical past and cost of regionalism as a class for research within the humanities.

Postcolonial Sociology

Postcolonial idea has loved extensive effect within the humanities yet for social technological know-how, and specifically sociology, its implications stay elusive. This detailed quantity brings jointly prime sociologists to discover the concept that of 'postcolonial sociology,' with fresh postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park.