David Harvey sheds light on a question I have asked before on this blog in connection with Peter the Great: Why do we obey? Or rather, why do people sometimes act against their own best interests? Why do the many “let” the few take advantage of them? This question is perhaps not as mysterious asContinue reading “Reading “A Brief History of Neoliberalism””
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Neoliberalism in Contemporary Czech Fiction
I have at last finished Pavla Horáková’s Teorie Podivnosti, a book chosen more or less at random from the pool of “highly-acclaimed contemporary popular Czech fiction” as a kind of experimental sampling. What is Czech literature currently like? How is it different from American popular literature, and what kind of world-outlook does it evince? ToContinue reading “Neoliberalism in Contemporary Czech Fiction”
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