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City of Gold
An Apology for Global Capitalism in
a Time of Discontent

Notes on the Book

This was my first published book, and in some sense the most ambitious, maybe the best.

I'm not going to try to summarize the argument here, but it might be helpful to remember that this is an effort to follow certain possibilities, that is, it is primarily a work of philosophy rather than social analysis.  This is somewhat confusing because the book is concerned with globalization, and locates its arguments vis-a-vis history. 

How do we think the politics of the present dispensation?  Certainly not through the apparatus of the nation and the Enlightened patrimony, at least not without circumspection.
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Kind Words

This book will entrance its readers, not just for the sweep of its argument, or the eclectic nature of its insights, but for its sheer intellectual daring and brilliance.

-- Pierre Schlag
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Routledge 2004

Hardcover
ISBN: 0-415-94539-9

Paperback
ISBN: 0-415-94540-2



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Video Interview with Miguel Gonzalez Marcos, University of Maryland