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Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?
Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis?
Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.
The price of "Old Gods, New Enigmas (Hardcover Book)" at Up Up & Away! Cincinnati (Cheviot) is USD $26.95.
The publisher of "Old Gods, New Enigmas (Hardcover Book)" is Verso Books.
The genres of "Old Gods, New Enigmas (Hardcover Book)" are Political Science - Commentary & Opinion, Political Science - History & Theory, and Political Science - Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
"Old Gods, New Enigmas (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "Old Gods, New Enigmas (Hardcover Book)" is Mike Davis.