POLITICS NEW BOOKS JANUARY TO AUGUST 2014
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Iran and the United States
A Precariat Charter
Subject and Object
An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace
From Denizens to Citizens
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Research Scholar, Princeton University, USA
Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology and Method
Seyed Hossein Mousavian worked for over 30 years on diplomatic efforts between Iran and the West, alongside now-President Hassan Rouhani and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, serving as confidante, colleague, and peer. Here the former diplomat tells the insider history of the troubled relationship between Iran and the US. His unique firsthand perspective blends memoir, analysis and never before seen details of the many near misses in the quest for rapprochement. With so much at stake, the book concludes with a roadmap for peace that both nations so desperately need.
Building on the success of The Precariat, Guy Standing’s new book, A Precariat Charter, develops a progressive set of political ideas aimed at reducing the instability and marginalisation of the precariat class. The work discusses how rights — political, civil, social and economic — have been denied to the Precariat, and looks at the importance of redefining our social contract around notions of associational freedom, agency and the commons.
UK July 2014 • US May 2014 352 Pages • 216 x 138mm • 8.5 x 5.4 inches HB 9781628920079 £24.00 • $35.00 Library eBook 9781628928709 £69.00 • $106.00 Individual eBook 9781628927603 £17.99 • $30.99 Bloomsbury Academic
UK April 2014 • US June 2014 192 Pages • 234 x 156mm • 9.2 x 6.1 inches PB 9781472510396 £16.99 • $27.95 HB 9781472505750 £55.00 • $100.00 Library eBook 9781472508478 £51.00 • $82.00 Individual eBook 9781472507983 £16.99 • $26.99 Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Ruth Groff, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Saint Louis University, USA Subject & Object is a thematic collection of classic works by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, designed to foreground the authors’ philosophical concerns, especially in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and method. The volume, which includes lucid introductions to all of the selections, illustrates Frankfurt School approaches to questions such as the nature of reason; the limits of empiricism, pragmatism and Kantian transcendental idealism; the case for materialism; the difficulty of thinking counterfactually; and the ideological character of mainstream social science. UK June 2014 • US April 2014 352 Pages • 152 x 229mm • 6 x 9 inches PB 9781441122865 £27.99 • $47.95 HB 9781441137289 £85.00 • $150.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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