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On Practice and Contradiction - (Revolutions) by Mao Tse-Tung (Paperback)

On Practice and Contradiction - (Revolutions) by  Mao Tse-Tung (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Mao's early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Žižek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mao Tse-Tung</b> was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. <p/><b>Slavoj Žižek</b> is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include <i>Living in the End Times</i>, <i>First as Tragedy, Then as Farce</i>, <i>In Defense of Lost Causes</i>, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

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