Time And Revolution

Author : Stephen E. Hanson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861901
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Revolution written by Stephen E. Hanson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. According to Hanson, westerners tend to envision time as both rational and inexorable. In a system in which 'time is money,' the clock dominates workers. Marx, however, believed that communist workers would be freed of the artificial distinction between leisure time and work time. As a result, they would be able to surpass capitalist production levels and ultimately control time itself. Hanson reveals the distinctive imprint of this philosophy on the formation and development of Soviet institutions, arguing that the breakdown of Gorbachev's perestroika and the resulting collapse of the Soviet Union demonstrate the failure of the idea.

Author : Antonio Negri
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780936095
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time for Revolution written by Antonio Negri and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Negri wrote the two essays that comprise Time for Revolution while serving a prison sentence for alleged involvement with radical left-wing groups. Although the essays were written two decades apart, their concerns are the same: is there a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism? In the wake of the global crisis of capitalism heralded by the 2008 crash, the question has never been more relevant and Negri remains an insightful and passionate guide to any attempt to answer it.

Author : David S. Landes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780670889679
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution in Time written by David S. Landes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mechanical clock was one of the technologial advances that brought Western civilization to a position of world leadership. This book details how and why this breakthrough occured through a historical journey that takes in the 14th-century mechanical revolution, Elizabeth I's finger watch, the success of Swiss watchmakers, fakes and smuggling, and how the quartz revolution brought Swiss supremacy to an end.

Author : Antonio Negri
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780937253
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time for Revolution written by Antonio Negri and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Negri wrote the two essays that comprise Time for Revolution while serving a prison sentence for alleged involvement with radical left-wing groups. Although the essays were written two decades apart, their concerns are the same: is there a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism? In the wake of the global crisis of capitalism heralded by the 2008 crash, the question has never been more relevant and Negri remains an insightful and passionate guide to any attempt to answer it.

Author : Jonathan Dunn
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolutions of Time written by Jonathan Dunn and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Revolutions of Time" by Jonathan Dunn is a book that takes on spiritualism. Written in the form of a found manuscript that's been translated from ancient Latin, the book tells the story of Jehu. The passage of time, deja vu, and how such a broad and nebulous topic can be full of wonder are all themes in this text which takes readers on a spiritual journey into how past, present, and future all melt together.

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316802582
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Did the Revolution Go? written by Donatella della Porta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Did the Revolution Go? considers the apparent disappearance of the large social movements that have contributed to democratization. Revived by recent events of the Arab Spring, this question is once again paramount. Is the disappearance real, given the focus of mass media and scholarship on electoral processes and 'normal politics'? Does it always happen, or only under certain circumstances? Are those who struggled for change destined to be disappointed by the slow pace of transformation? Which mechanisms are activated and deactivated during the rise and fall of democratization? This volume addresses these questions through empirical analysis based on quantitative and qualitative methods (including oral history) of cases in two waves of democratization: Central Eastern European cases in 1989 as well as cases in the Middle East and Mediterranean region in 2011.

Author : Harold Laski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351494171
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time written by Harold Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold J. Laski saw World War Two as a period of revolutionary change as profound as any in the modern history of the human race. In his view, the period's inner nature was as significant in its essentials as those which saw the fall of the Roman Empire; the birth in the Reformation of capitalist society; or, as in 1789, the final chapter in the dramatic rise of the middle class to power. All of these were not revolutions made by thinkers, though some of them may have foreseen its coming, but of ordinary people who shaped the large outlines of the direction of these changes. Laski held that revolutions of our time have been rooted in all that goes to give its present character to our society. We can recognize its advent and prepare for it; in that event, we might build a civilization richer and more secure than any of which we so far have knowledge. Or we may chose to resist its onset; in which case, it will appear to some future generation that our age has sought rather to sweep back the tides of the ocean than to oppose the decrees of men. The curse of our social order is its persistent inequalities. Either we must find ourselves able to co-operate in their removal, or we shall move rapidly to conflict about them. Laski argues that the middle class must co-operate with workers in essential revisions, as the aristocracy was wise enough to do a century ago over the Reform Bill, or violent revolution will be unleashed by means that transforms the ends of either party to the conflict in view. This is the choice that lies before us. Just how accurate or wide of the mark Laski was is brilliantly articulated in the critical introduction by Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.

Author : David S. Landes
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674768024
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution in Time written by David S. Landes and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded "Revolution in Time." In a new preface and scores of updated passages, he explores new findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or television screen. While commenting on the latest research, Landes never loses his focus on the historical meaning of time and its many perceptions and uses, questions that go beyond history, that involve philosophers and possibly, theologians and literary folk as well.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.R5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dunn Jonathan
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318792061
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolutions of Time written by Dunn Jonathan and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.