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The Work of Inheritance Let us begin, then, where Derrida himself begins: his initial act of positioning himself within his own text by enclosing his text between two quotations from Hamlet, which ...
We have seen, in our own time, the climax and the decline of liberal tragedy. To understand its structure of feeling is now a central problem. For we are all to some extent still governed by it, even ...
Ralph Miliband was my colleage at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Over the years that he taught there, he also became my friend. I relied on our talks in the corridor and the ...
The cinema of John Ford is rooted in history. He has steeped himself in those crucial periods of American history which have determined popular American consciousness: the colonization of the west, ...
In 1913, on the eve of World War I, the United States featured a State Department of some 213 employees in Washington, dc —manual labourers included—and an Army that was barely a fifth the size of ...
Integrating three mechanisms While sociologists have generally tended to base their research on one or another of these three approaches to class, there really is no reason to see them as mutually ...
Both during her lifetime (1906–1975) and posthumously, Hannah Arendt’s reputation has been based largely on The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963); perhaps supplemented ...
Polanyi’s gaps While Burawoy is right to argue that the conceptual link between class analysis and socialism, or ‘real utopias’, should be sought in the dynamics of capitalist development, it is less ...
Peter Gowan on Richard Tuck, Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant. The origins of ‘liberal’ interventionism by the NATO powers today in the ...
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...
As we go to press, Régis Debray is about to stand trial in Bolivia. The military authorities who claim to try him have announced him in advance ‘guilty’ of the fabricated charges against him. The ...
Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...
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