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The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever
published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's
government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister,
George Osborne and Boris Johnson. Spanning the early days of the
coalition to a bitterly contested general election, and ending with
the astonishing EU Referendum story, 'Cameron at 10' tells the full
story of a momentous premiership. From riots in London to the
withdrawal from Afghanistan to the gambles of two seismic referenda
- the youngest prime minister since 1812 faced an exceptionally
turbulent period in British politics. With insights into his
relationships with EU leaders, the Brexit camp and Barack Obama,
this is the essential blueprint for understanding the rise and fall
of the Cameron government.
The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East
and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly
transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social
media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves
and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not
An Image, Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary
self-representation, showing that the political consequences of
these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic
form. Looking at videos from Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and
Egypt, Snowdon attends closely to the circumstances of both their
production and circulation, drawing on a wide range of historical
and theoretical material, to discover what they can tell us about
the potential for revolution in our time and the possibilities of
video as a genuinely decentralized and vernacular medium.
With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most
important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier
theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and
augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la
Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza's
major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary
political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza's major
treatises in the period in which they were written. In successive
chapters, he examines the political situation in the United
Provinces during Spinoza's lifetime, Spinoza's own religious and
ideological associations, the concept of democracy developed in the
Theologico-Political Treatise, the theory of the state advanced in
the Political Treatise and the anthropological basis for politics
established in the Ethics.
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