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The Ways of the World

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world’s most cited social scientists.

Profile Books (First published, 2017)
376 pages including Bibliography and Index

RM75.00

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ISBN: 9781781255322 Product ID: 3249 Subjects: , Sub-subjects: ,

The Ways of The World presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey’s intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx and to a sustained intellectual engagement that has made him the world’s leading exponent of Marx’s work. Following a short introduction showing the pertinence of its approach and themes for understanding current developments in China. The book takes the reader through the development of his unique synthesis of Marxist method and geographical understanding that has allowed him to develop a series of powerful insights into the ways of the world, from the new mechanics of imperialism, crises in financial markets and the effectiveness of car strikers in Oxford, to the links between nature and change, why Sacré Coeur was built in Paris, and the meaning of the postmodern condition.

In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey’s coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and the crises that inhere in capitalism.

Foreword
Introduction

1. Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation
2. The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation: A Reconstruction of the Marxian Theory
3. The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis
4. Monument and Myth: The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
5. Time—Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition
6. From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism
7. The Nature of Environment: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change
8. Militant Particularism and Global Ambition
9. The ‘New’ Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession
10. The Urban Roots of Financial Crises: Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle
11. Capital Evolves

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Weight0.312 kg
Dimensions19.7 × 12.8 × 2.3 cm
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