Erica Benner: 2 books

Really Existing Nationalisms

A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels

by Erica Benner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

An impressive re-examination of the theories of Marx and Engels on nationalism Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a sophisticated insight into...

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World

by Erica Benner
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

“Remarkable, engaging.… Be Like the Fox can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in the craft of politics and the life of ideas.”—New York Times Book Review In the five hundred years since he wrote The Prince, Machiavelli’s name has been linked to tyranny and the doctrine that...