{"product_id":"old-gods-new-enigmas-mike-davis-9781788732161","title":"Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eIs revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarx 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 \u003ci\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavis 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, \u003ci\u003eOld Gods, New Enigmas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788732162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788732161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2018","brand":"Mike Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991138107647,"sku":"9781788732161","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_201e5c3a-74c8-4c34-afae-c9093ad65a6a.jpg?v=1683308652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/old-gods-new-enigmas-mike-davis-9781788732161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}