Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the ...
A small and beautiful epic of growing up in 1980s Baltimore, from the author of Between the World and Me The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading.” This small and perfectly formed epic follows the lives of boys on the journey to manhood in black America an ...
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents. The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experie ...
Classic biography of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, now collected in a single volume. Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnot ...
A remarkable account of the life and thoughts of the philosopher and linguist. Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of academics and students. This definitive biography follows his trajectory from his early years in Prague, Paris and England to international success as a philosopher and public intellectual. Known both for his highly integrat ...
“France’s leading Marxist public intellectual.” Tariq Ali In the classic tradition of the philosopher-activist, Daniel Bensaid tells the story of a life deeply entwined with the history of both the French and the international Left. From his family bistro in a staunchly red neighborhood of Toulouse to the founding of the Jeunesses communistes revolutionnaires in the 1960s, from the joyous explosion of May 1968 to the painful experience of defea ...
Letters from the heroic German revolutionary to her comrades, friends and lovers The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements—Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht—who were among her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Much of this correspondence appears ...
Definitive biography of one of the most significant journalists of the twentieth century. Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War, he was a dauntless investigator as well as a towering liter ...
Wer ist der Typ mit der Maske? Cro ist Rapper, Produzent, Grafiker, Modedesigner – und der erfolgreichste deutsche Musiker der letzten Jahre. Er begeistert Millionen von Menschen, sein Debutalbum landete direkt auf Platz 1, er gewann Echo und Bambi. Und das ohne gro?e Plattenfirma im Rucken. Hautnah begleiten wir Cro: von den Anfangen in kleinen Clubs, uber wilde Studio- und Partynachte bis auf die gro?ten Festivalbuhnen Europas. Cros Erfolgssto ...
