In NLR 106: The Portuguese Experiment How to account for the case of Portugal, in which a conventional social-democratic government has been obliged to break with Euro-austerity under the pressure of a pact with the radical left? Daniel Finn locates these discrepant outcomes in the course of Portuguese political and economic development since the containment of the 1974 Revolution. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/daniel-finn-luso-anomalies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106>
The coordinator of Portugal’s Left Bloc, Catarina Martins, discusses her trajectory from theatre to the political stage; the prominence of women in the party’s leadership; the social achievements wrested so far from the grip of the Portuguese establishment; and the prospects for extending those gains or seeing them reversed by Brussels and Berlin. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/catarina-martins-the-portuguese-experiment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> Also in NLR 106 Nancy Fraser replies to Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre’s proposal that capitalism has given rise to a new ‘economy of enrichment’. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/nancy-fraser-a-new-form-of-capitalism?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> Responding to Fraser, Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre extend their comparative analysis of capitalist valorization types. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/luc-boltanski-arnaud-esquerre-enrichment-profit-critique?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> Marco D'Eramo gives a blistering account of Rome’s fate at the hands of avaricious developers, insensate priests, neo-liberal ex-communists and stupefied tourists. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/marco-d-eramo-the-not-so-eternal-city?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> Sven Lütticken on art as the uncanny double of law in the work of Kant, Schiller and Hegel. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/sven-lutticken-the-juridical-economy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> Book Reviews Wang Chaohua on Qin Hui, Zou chu dizhi. Sources and consequences of the Revolution of 1911 for China’s history. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/wang-chaohua-china-s-first-revolution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> Nikil Saval on Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger. The early years in Jamaica and Britain of NLR’s first editor and the founder of Cultural Studies. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/nikil-saval-two-island-estrangement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> Tor Krever on David Kennedy, A World of Struggle. The role of experts in the global economy and international law. <https://newleftreview.org/II/106/tor-krever-spectral-expertise?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106> NLR 106 will be mailed to subscribers on 30 August. 6 Meard St, London W1F 0EG, +44 20 7734 8830, [email protected], newleftreview.org Click here to unsubscribe or change your email preferences. <https://newleftreview.org/customer/email_options?customer_id=34609&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR106&utm_content=unsubscribe>
