Goran Therborn: 3 books
What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?
State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.
In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh...
Cities of Power
The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Why are cities centers of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics
In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world’s major capital cities, showing how they have been shaped by...
by Goran Therborn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics
In this pithy and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general reader—one of the world's leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, traces the...