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Max Weber and Ernest Gellner

by tracing it back to its roots in early political economy

A limpid account of the thought of key Marxist thinkers

This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation

Five Lessons on Wagner keyword-white Like other cities lacking anyFor over a century, Richard Wagners music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideologicalsome say racist and reactionaryunderpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading of the critical responses to the composers work, which include Adornos writings on the composer and Wagners recuperation by Nazism as well as more recent