Benjamin Kunkel Libros

O doutor Felix Hoenikker, um dos «pais» da bomba atómica, deixou à humanidade um legado fatídico. Foi ele o inventor do gelo-nove, um químico letal capaz de congelar o mundo inteiro. As investigações de John, o escritor que está a preparar uma biografia de Felix, conduzem-no aos três excêntricos filhos do cientista, a uma ilha nas Caraíbas onde se pratica a religião bokononista e, mais tarde, ao amor e à loucura. Narrado com um humor desarmante e uma ironia amarga, este livro de culto acerca da destruição global é uma sátira hilariante e assustadora sobre o fim do mundo e a loucura dos homens.

After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned. But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored outside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust leads readers – whether politically committed or simply curious – through the most important critical theory today. Written with the wit and verve of Kunkel’s best-selling novel, Indecision, this introduction to contemporary Leftist thinkers engages with the revolutionary philosophy of Slavoj Žižek, the economic analyses of David Graeber and David Harvey, and the cultural diagnoses of Fredric Jameson. Discussing the ongoing crisis of capitalism in light of ideas of full employment, debt forgiveness, and “fictitious capital,” Utopia or Bust is a tour through the world of Marxist thought and an examination of the basis of Western society today.

Dwight is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at Pfizer - are not especially conducive to wisdom. His biggest a chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged by one of his roommates, he swallows the first fateful pill.