Göran Therborn Knihy

An original and decisive contribution to the contemporary debate on the central Marxist concept of ideology.

A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist.

In this original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutations of modernist architecture to the contemporary return of urban revolutions, Therborn questions received assumptions about the source, manifestations and reach of urban power, combining perspectives on politics, sociology, urban planning, architecture, and urban iconography

The distillation of decades of scholarship in urban history and the sociology of nationalism ... Cities of Power does important work in connecting the look and feel of cities with their specific national histories. -Max Holleran, Times Literary Supplement Command of history and knowledge of the real world inform Göran Therborn's thinking, making him one of the world's most engaging and intriguing sociologists. Cities of Power focuses our attention on the places where transforming events happen and helps us understand the current tensions between states and people, capitals and peripheries, populism and elitism, nationalism and globalism. -Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States Cities of Power ... is explicitly a riposte to the idea of the Global City, and the peculiar Monocle- magazine vision of trans-national, interconnected, intangible capitalism that it serves to alternately describe and vindicate ... Few thinkers display such a genuinely global range. -Owen Hatherley, New Left Review Therborn's description of what a global city is provokes legitimate reflection ... Cities of Power is one more publication in a sparkling list of career accomplishments and might function as an important resource for many a sociology doctoral student. -Luzia Lodder, PopMatters Praise for Göran Therborn: Therborn is a highly conceptual thinker, allying the formal rigor of his discipline at its best with a command of a vast range of empirical data. The result is a powerful theoretical structure, supported by a fascinating body of evidence. -Nation At a time when historians and economists tend to retire behind the barricades of their increasingly specialized professions, answering the big comparative questions about the pathways into and out of modernity, the global processes of inequality and the forces of possible change have been largely left to the sociologists. In my view, Göran Therborn, probably Sweden's most distinguished social scientist, has made more essential contributions in these fields than anyone else, by a combination of analytical lucidity, common sense and an extraordinary command of international comparative data. -Eric Hobsbawm, author of The Age of Extremes

Die zivilgesellschaftliche und politische Linke formiert sich weltweit neu und stellt dem Neoliberalismus ein sozialistisches Gegengewicht entgegen, das auf Gerechtigkeit und Solidarität basiert. Die Tradition des sozialistischen Kampfes wird durch eine planetarische Perspektive und Maßnahmen zur Abwendung der Klimakatastrophe erweitert. In der globalen Linken des 21. Jahrhunderts hat ein Umdenken begonnen, das auf sozial-ökologische Transformation abzielt. Neue politische Formen berühren soziale Basis, Instrumente, Modi, Strategien und Protestrepertoires. Angesichts der enormen Herausforderungen des Jahrhunderts steht die Neuerfindung der Linken auf der Agenda, die ein breites Spektrum von sozialdemokratischen Reformen bis hin zu radikalen antikapitalistischen Initiativen umfasst. Die Linke muss nicht nur geopolitisch tragfähige Positionen finden, sondern auch die Massen von ihren Vorschlägen überzeugen, um die wachsenden Klimakrisen und sozialen Ungleichheiten zu überwinden. Der Essay beleuchtet den Kontext der Linken im 21. Jahrhundert und ihre kreativen, radikalen Antworten auf aktuelle Herausforderungen wie Klimakatastrophe, imperiale Geopolitik und wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit. Welche Perspektiven gibt es für die Arbeiterklasse und die Ideen der Linken?