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Building the New World attempts to redress the balance

Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world

and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital

Graham Holderness

This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems keyword-free-markets Building the New World attemptsWhy do patriarchal systems survive? In this groundbreaking work of feminist theory, Nancy Folbre examines the contradictory effects of capitalist development. She explains why the work of caring for others is under valued and under rewarded in today's global economy, calling attention to the organisation of childrearing, the care of other dependants, and the inheritance of assets. Upending conventional definitions of the economy based only on the