{"title":"Raoul Vaneigem","description":"\u003cp\u003eRaoul Vaneigem's works delve into the intersections of \u003cstrong\u003epolitics\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003espirituality\u003c\/strong\u003e, exploring critical and often radical perspectives on social structures and belief systems. His writings invite readers to question established norms, combining historical insight with philosophical reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough thought-provoking texts like \u003cem\u003eLetters to My Children\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eResistance to Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e, Vaneigem offers a unique lens on resistance, heresy, and personal awakening, appealing to those interested in transformative ideas within both political and religious contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"letters-to-my-children-and-the-children-of-the-world-to-come-by-raoul-vaneigem-9781629635125","title":"Letters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders of Vaneigem's now-classic work \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e, which, as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International, was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten some thirty-five years after the May \"events\", this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. Vaneigem wonders, \"How could I address my daughters, my sons, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, without including all the others who, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power, are in danger, even tomorrow, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come\u003c\/em\u003e provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world. At the same time, in true dialectical fashion, and \"far from the media whose job it is to ignore them,\" Vaneigem discerns all the signs of \"a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations, a new drive to reinstate true human values, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849483047148,"sku":"9781629635125","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5684533482768.jpg?v=1759046732"},{"product_id":"resistance-to-christianity-a-chronological-encyclopaedia-of-heresy-from-the-beginning-to-the-eighteenth-century-by-raoul-vaneigem-9781912475605","title":"Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eResistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e is a revisionary account of the forms of thought and belief that have been rejected or suppressed by orthodox Christianity over the centuries. Formidably erudite without ever drifting into dry scholasticism, \u003cem\u003eResistance to Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e ranges from the origins of the Bible to the fraught doctrinal controversies of the fourth century to the Levellers and Jansenists of the early modern period, thereby revealing the too-little-known history that lies behind the modern world's theological horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eResistance to Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e is far more, however, than a study of religious movements and ideas; indeed, Vaneigem is bracingly unapologetic in his ambition \"to examine the resistance that the inclination to natural liberty has, for nearly twenty centuries, opposed to . . . Christian oppression.\" The story of how men and women have again and again resisted the authoritarian implications of religious orthodoxy is, above all, a crucial strand of the history of human freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBill Brown's translation makes available in English a major work by one of the preeminent thinkers of our time. A remarkable feat of historical scholarship that deserves to be widely read, \u003cem\u003eResistance to Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e represents radical thought at its most exciting, incisive, and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932410724588,"sku":"9781912475605","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781912475605-resistance-to-christianity-a-chronological-encyclopaedia-of-heresy-from-the-beginning-to-the-eighteenth-century.jpg?v=1783862202"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/raoul-vaneigem.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}