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Riley’s writing appeals to those interested in \u003cstrong\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as broader \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"perdita-by-dylan-riley-9781804296080","title":"Perdita","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair.\" When Dylan Riley received the devastating news that his wife, Emanuela, had cancer, he began writing blog posts describing the anguish and disarray brought by her worsening symptoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerdita\u003c\/em\u003e is written for their teenage son, Eamon. It is a lyrical memoir of a marriage, from their heady first encounters in Rome. It is also a raw and moving account of a bereavement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCancer, Riley reflects, is a pitiless opponent. It drains hope of its power and turns it into self-delusion. Living with cancer is to experience a progressive foreshortening of time. Next year might be terrible, but there can be a few good months now; tomorrow will likely be bad, but let's focus on today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRiley finds that hope itself, that tricky and dangerous emotion, grows out of the soil of our mortality, and of the mortality of those we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerdita\u003c\/em\u003e offers no advice. It tries more simply to represent a lost connection. \"I wanted the world to know what it had lost,\" he explains, \"and maybe in knowing it to make her live again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845514514668,"sku":"9781804296080","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10975103482830.jpg?v=1758883014"},{"product_id":"microverses-by-dylan-riley-9781839768408","title":"Microverses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMicroverses\u003c\/em\u003e comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society – and social theory – in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed ‘enforced contemplation’. Dylan Riley responded with the tools of his trade, producing an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. \u003cem\u003eMicroverses\u003c\/em\u003e analyses the intellectual situation, the political crisis of Trump’s last months in office, and love and illness in a period when both were fraught with the public emergency of the coronavirus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRiley brings the theoretical canon to bear on problems of intellectual culture and everyday life, working through Weber and Durkheim, Parsons and Dubois, Gramsci and Lukács, MacKinnon and Fraser, to weigh sociology’s relationship to Marxism and the operations of class, race and gender, alongside discursions into the workings of an orchestra and the complicatedness of taking a walk in a pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInvitations rather than finished arguments, the notes attempt to recover the totalising perspective of sociology – the ability to see society in the round, as though from the outside – and to recuperate what Paul Sweezy described as a sense of the ‘present as history’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383916249324,"sku":"9781839768408","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/583113482843.jpg?v=1773388418"},{"product_id":"the-civic-foundations-of-fascism-in-europe-by-dylan-riley-9781786635235","title":"The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, \u003cem\u003eThe Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well-organised, rather than weak and atomised, civil societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn making this argument, the book focuses on three crucial cases of interwar authoritarianism: Italy, Spain, and Romania. 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