This book began its unlikely life as my doctoral project at Oxford University. My foremost gratitude is to my supervisor, Michael Freeden, who in his patient and insightful way provided invaluable perspective and a great deal of useful criticism. David Miller and Elizabeth Frazer read drafts of four of the chapters that eventually made their way into this book, and offered important suggestions. Katherine Morris, my advisor at Mansfi eld College, was also a great source of support during the diffi cult and anxious process of writing. In developing the material into this book I am grateful to have had the benefi t of comments and support from Ronald Craigh, Laurence Davis, Marianne Enckel, Benjamin Franks, Sharif Gemie, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, Ruth Kinna, Cindy Milstein, Alex Plows, Stephen Shukaitis, Starhawk and Stuart White. So many other friends, comrades and colleagues have contributed to the ideas expressed in this book without reading my written work that I could never mention some without doing injustice to others. If you, reader, have ever exchanged ideas with me in conversation then something of the following pages is yours, as are my heartfelt thanks and solidarity. During my research I have also enjoyed the hospitality of several autonomous spaces, whose living example of ‘anarchy in action’ will always be remembered: Can Masdeu (Barcelona), Centre Autonome (Lausanne), Cecco Rivolta (Firenze), CIA (Amsterdam), Dragonfl y (Oxford), Equinox (Manchester) Eurodusnie (Leiden), Forte Prenestino (Roma), Les Naus (Barcelona), Les Tanneries (Dijon), La Tour (Genève), Ragman’s Lane (Wye Valley), Salon Mazal (Tel Aviv) and Talamh (Lanarkshire). Earlier versions of Chapters 2 and 6 have appeared as academic articles in the Journal of Political Ideologies and in Anarchist Studies, respectively. I thank the editors and the anonymous reviewers who contributed useful comments on these versions. The editors and staff at Pluto Press have been of invaluable assistance in bringing this book to print, and my thanks goes to David Castle, Helen Griffi ths, Melanie Patrick, Stuart Tolley and Robert Webb. During work on this book I was supported by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Finally, my parents Ze’ev and Shifra, my sisters Noa and If’at, and my partner, Lucy Michaels, have been there for me throughout to offer their unconditional love and support. It is to them that I am ultimately indebted.

Critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two hundred years, Aryan Idols demonstrates how the interconnected concepts of “Indo-European” and “Aryan” as ethnic categories have been shaped by, and used for, various ideologies. Stefan Arvidsson traces the evolution of the Aryan idea through the nineteenth century—from its roots in Bible-based classifications and William Jones’s discovery of commonalities among Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek to its use by scholars in fields such as archaeology, anthropology, folklore, comparative religion, and history. Along the way, Arvidsson maps out the changing ways in which Aryans were imagined and relates such shifts to social, historical, and political processes. Considering the developments of the twentieth century, Arvidsson focuses on the adoption of Indo-European scholarship (or pseudoscholarship) by the Nazis and by Fascist Catholics. A wide-ranging discussion of the intellectual history of the past two centuries, Aryan Idols links the pervasive idea of the Indo-European people to major scientific, philosophical, and political developments of the times, while raising important questions about the nature of scholarship as well.

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery. Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieyès, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today’s politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines -- religious, philosophical, and moral -- coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," which outlines Rawls' plans to revise Political Liberalism, which were cut short by his death.

In November 1999 the first protest movements that became associated with the anti-globalisation movement took place in Seattle, and came to be seen as the starting point for globalised resistance to neoliberal capitalism. Despite initial optimism, the following years have seen little substantial progress in formulating a coherent alternative to neoliberalism. This lack of an alternative has become particularly poignant in the aftermath of the recent credit crisis, where the neoliberal mandate that appeared to be in crisis in just 2008 has reinvented itself through the guise of a new era of austerity. In this timely book, Worth assesses the growing diversity of resistance to neoliberalism - progressive, nationalist and religious - and argues that, troublingly, the more reactionary alternatives to globalisation currently provide just as coherent a base for building opposition as those associated with the traditional left-wing anti-globalisation movements. Taking in a contrasting array of case studies from around the world - from the failures of the World Social Forum to the rise of Radical Islam, the re-emergence of the far-right in Western Europe to the startling impact of the Tea Party in the US - Worth shows that while a progressive alternative is possible, it cannot be taken for granted.

Автор настоящей книги Жан Грав --- один из самых известных французских анархистов конца XIX -- начала XX веков. В данной работе он доходчиво, просто, ясно и ярко излагает основы как анархистской критики старого мира, так и анархо-коммунистической альтернативы последнему; приходит к выводу о неизбежности социальной революции и описывает отношение к ней разных политических сил; рисует широкую картину анархистской утопии --- будущего общества. Книга будет интересна не только профессиональным историкам, философам и политологам, но и широкому кругу неравнодушных читателей.

Т. 2 : Спалах пророцтва: Гегель, Маркс та послідовники. - 494 с.

Цей твір, за словами Бертрана Рассела, - праця надзвичайної ваги, яку варто читати за її блискучу критику ворогів демократії - як давніх, так і сучасних. Автор досліджує в ній не лише стародавню грецьку філософію і новітні філософські течії від Канта до наших днів, але й розглядає мистецтво урядування, історію розвитку і занепаду грецьких демократій, подає зразок наукової логіки і критичного аналізу. Карл Поппер спиняється на завданні суспільних наук, аналізує історію фашизму і комунізму, критикує історицизм Платона, Гегеля й Маркса.

В очередную книгу большой серии «Публикации ЦФС» (малая серия «Conditio Humana») мы включили широко известное исследование Б. Андерсона, посвященное распространению национализма в современном мире. Своеобразие трактовки автором ключевых понятий «нации» и «национализма» заключается в глубоком социально-антропологическом подходе к их анализу. При этом автор учитывает социально-политический и исторический контекст формирования феномена национализма. Книга предназначена для социологов, политологов, социальных психологов, философов и всех изучающих эти дисциплины.

В 1957 году Эрнст Канторович опубликовал книгу, которая стала знаменитой и определила стиль работы нескольких поколений медиевистов и историков идей. Он сформулировал тезис о «двух телах» властителя: тела политического и тела естественного, - восходящий к эпохе Средневековья. Анализируя контекст средневековой мысли и политической теории, Канторович показывает, как западноевропейские монархии начинают создавать свою «политическую теологию». Естественное тело короля обладает физическими свойствами, страдает и умирает, как у обычных людей. Но его другое, духовное тело высится над земным как свидетельство сакральности фигуры властителя. Это делает возможным сохранение монархии даже тогда, когда монарх умирает. Специалисты и студенты с нетерпением ожидали перевода на русский язык этого прекрасно документированного, теоретически оригинального исследования. Издание будет иметь несомненный успех у историков, философов, специалистов по политической теории и исследователей культуры, а также студентов и аспирантов, этих специальностей.