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John Holloway

    August 1, 1920 – August 29, 1999

    John Holloway was an English poet, critic, and academic. His work focused on literary criticism and poetry, blending analytical rigor with poetic sensibility. He was known for his thoughtful engagement with literature and his contributions to critical discourse. Holloway was a respected figure within academic and literary circles.

    John Holloway
    The Story of the Night
    In, Against, And Beyond Capitalism
    Change the World Without Taking Power
    Hope in Hopeless Times
    Crack Capitalism
    We Are The Crisis Of Capital
    • 2022

      Hope in Hopeless Times

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.2(12)Add rating

      At a low point for the left, one of the world's leading Marxist philosophers demonstrates the grounds for revolutionary hope

      Hope in Hopeless Times
    • 2021
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    • 2020

      Beyond Crisis

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The anarchist or autonomist movement in Greece has been one of the strongest in the world yet it has failed to have a significant impact. Is there nothing beyond the world of capitalist destruction or can we still see some possibility for radical hope? The essays in this collection reflect on the experience of the crisis in Greece and its political implications for the whole world. They do not point a way forward but seek to open windows in the darkening sky of apparent impossibility.

      Beyond Crisis
    • 2019

      Kniha spojuje texty tří přednášek, které John Holloway přednesl v Kalifornském institutu integrálních studií. Zabývá se otázkou současné podoby protikapitalistické revoluce, zejména po selhání myšlenky uchvácení státní moci jako prostředku k radikální změně. Holloway nabízí brilantní úvod do svého díla a klade důraz na myšlenku, že „My jsme krizí kapitalismu a jsme na to hrdí.“ Tento pohled kontrastuje s tradičními levicovými názory, které krizi přisuzují kapitalistům nebo neudržitelnosti systému. Holloway tvrdí, že krizi lze chápat jako příležitost k lepšímu uspořádání světa, pokud ji vnímáme jako projev tvořivých sil. První přednáška se zaměřuje na význam „My“, druhá zkoumá kapitalismus jako systém, který frustruje naši tvořivost, a třetí ukazuje, že my sami představujeme krizi tohoto systému. České vydání navíc obsahuje Hollowayovu přednášku Vztek proti vládě peněz, kterou úspěšně přednesl v roce 2011 v Praze. Holloway, profesor sociologie na mexické univerzitě, v této knize dále rozvíjí myšlenku, že jedinou možnou formou revoluce dnes je vytváření a spojování trhlin v kapitalistické nadvládě.

      V kapitalismu, proti kapitalismu, za hranice kapitalismu : sanfranciské přednášky
    • 2018

      We Are The Crisis Of Capital

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      We Are the Crisis of Capital collects articles and excerpts written by radical academic, theorist, and activist John Holloway over a period of forty years. This collection asks, "Is there a way out?" How do we break capital, a form of social organisation that dehumanises us and threatens to annihilate us completely? How do we create a world based on the mutual recognition of human dignity? Holloway's work answers loudly, "By screaming NO!" By thinking from our own anger and creativity. By trying to recover the "we" buried under the categories of capitalist thought. By opening those categories and discovering the antagonism they conceal and by discovering that behind the concepts of money, state, capital, crisis, and so on, there moves our resistance-and-rebellion. An approach sometimes referred to as Open Marxism, it is an attempt to rethink Marxism as daily struggle. The articles move forward, influenced by the German state derivation debates of the 1970s, by the CSE debates in Britain, and the group around the Edinburgh journal Common Sense, and then moving on to Mexico and the wonderful stimulus of the Zapatista uprising, and now the continuing whirl of discussion with colleagues and students in the Posgrado de Sociología of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

      We Are The Crisis Of Capital
    • 2017

      ›Wir sind die Krise des Kapitals ...‹ basiert auf drei kürzlich gehaltenen Vorlesungen John Holloways am ›California Institute of Integral Studies‹ in San Francisco. Die Vorlesungen befassen sich mit den heutigen Möglichkeiten einer antikapitalistischen Revolution – nach der historischen Niederlage der Idee, der Schlüssel zum radikalen Wandel sei die Eroberung der Staatsmacht – und stellen eine brillante und mitreißende Einführung in die zentralen Themen in Holloways Werk dar. Das Leitmotiv der Vorlesungen – die Idee, dass »wir die Krise des Kapitals und stolz darauf sind« – läuft der Meinung vieler linker Denker*innen entgegen, wonach die Kapitalist*innen die Schuld an der Krise tragen oder die Krise schlichtweg ein Ausdruck des Systemversagens sei. Der einzige Weg, die Krise als mögliche Schwelle zu einer besseren Welt zu betrachten, besteht darin, das Scheitern des Kapitalismus als Ergebnis unserer kreativen Antriebskraft zu betrachten. Dies stellt eine theoretische Herausforderung dar. Die erste Vorlesung befasst sich also mit der Frage, wer ›wir‹ – im Sinne einer wirkmächtigen antikapitalistischen Kraft – eigentlich sind, die zweite mit dem Verständnis von Kapital als System der gesellschaftlichen Kohäsion, welches unsere Kreativität systematisch hemmt, und die dritte mit der These, dass ›wir‹ die Krise dieses Kohäsionssystems sind.

      Wir sind die Krise des Kapitals … und stolz darauf
    • 2016

      In, Against, And Beyond Capitalism

      • 85 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
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      Based on three lectures delivered by John Holloway at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The lectures focus on what anti-capitalist revolution can mean today--after the historic failure of the idea that the conquest of state power was the key to radical change

      In, Against, And Beyond Capitalism
    • 2014

      The Story of the Night

      Studies in Shakespeare's Major Tragedies

      • 200 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Focusing on the vocabulary and perspectives of twentieth-century criticism, this book critiques the interpretations of Shakespeare's major tragedies, including Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens. John Holloway delves into the nuances of critical analysis, offering insights that challenge conventional readings and encouraging a deeper understanding of these iconic works.

      The Story of the Night
    • 2010

      Crack Capitalism

      • 324 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      Crack Capitalism, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of weak points, or "cracks" in the capitalist system. John Holloway's previous book, Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate among activists about the most effective methods of resisting capitalism. Now Holloway rejects the idea of a disconnected plurality of struggles and finds a unifying contradiction -- the opposition between the time we spend working as part of the system and our excess "doing" where we revolt and refuse to be subsumed. Clearly and accessibly presented in the form of 33 theses, Crack Capitalism is set to reopen the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism.

      Crack Capitalism