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Thomas Piketty's follow-up to his bestselling work challenges us to rethink politics, ideology, and history in light of persistent inequality. He identifies the ideas that have perpetuated inequality for centuries and critiques the ineffective politics of both the right and left. Piketty asserts that our economy is not a natural phenomenon; rather, markets, profits, and capital are historical constructs shaped by choices. He delves into the material and ideological conflicts among social groups that have led to systems like slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, profoundly affecting billions. Piketty argues that the true driver of human progress has been the quest for equality and education, rather than property rights or stability. He highlights that the extreme inequality that has emerged since the 1980s stems from a backlash against communism, compounded by ignorance and a shift toward the unproductive politics of identity. Understanding these dynamics allows us to envision a more equitable economic and political framework. Piketty advocates for a new "participatory" socialism, rooted in equality, social property, education, and the equitable distribution of knowledge and power.

Obsáhlé dílo francouzského profesora ekonomie kritizuje prohlubující se majetkovou nerovnost ve světě a spatřuje v ní jedno z největších nebezpečí současného systému. Autor, který shromažďování nejrůznějších dat a jejich vyhodnocování věnoval 15 let, upozorňuje, že majetková nerovnost je stejná jako před sto lety a roste způsobem, který ohrožuje jak demokracii, tak ekonomiku.

The latest contribution to one of the most distinguished and important series in political thought in the world.

Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.

The third and final volume in Pierre Nora's award-winning (for Volume I) REALMS OF MEMORY, which includes groundbreaking discussions of France's past, powerfully demonstrates how a nation can both recover and rediscover its identity through remembrance, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how meanings attached to an event can be as significant as the event itself. 146 illustrations.

In the words of the general editors, this series seeks to understand women's roles, conditions, and representations throughout history. Drawing on the expertise of seventy-five distinguished historians, it presents a panoramic chronicle from antiquity to the present. The inaugural volume shifts the focus from the margins of ancient history to the forefront, offering fresh insights into over twenty centuries of Greek and Roman history. The authors analyze a vast landscape, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, revealing that ancient perceptions often relegated women to silent roles in motherhood and homemaking, largely ignored by historical records. In Rome, for instance, only heiresses were counted in the census. This scarcity of information about women contrasts sharply with the abundance of texts and images created by men regarding women and gender. The authors utilize diverse sources—gravestones, floor plans, stele inscriptions, papyrus rolls, vase paintings, and literary works—to illustrate the evolution of women's representations. They delve into the minds of men, from the Greeks envisioning goddesses to Church Fathers crafting the image of martyred female saints, uncovering an imaginative history of women and the dynamics between the sexes. Through this exploration, the authors highlight select aspects of women's experiences and the cultural narratives that shaped their identities.

Drawing on myriad sources - from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace - this second volume in the series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.

The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations

Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and anthropologists Mauss, Dumézil, and Lévi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" (un autre moyen âge), Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective mentalité from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.