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Evil has long fascinated psychologists, philosophers, novelists and playwrights but remains an incredibly difficult concept to talk about. On Evil is a compelling and at times disturbing tour of the many faces of evil. What is evil, and what makes people do awful things? If we can explain evil, do we explain it away? Can we imagine the mind of a serial killer, or does such evil defy description? Does evil depend on a contrast with good, as religion tells us, or can there be evil for evil's sake?Adam Morton argues that any account of evil must help us understand three things: why evil occurs; w

Adam Morton offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many of the problems that we can describe. He argues that the best response to many problems depends not on the most rationally promising solution, but on the most likely route to success.

Adam Morton offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many of the problems that we can describe. He argues that the best response to many problems depends not on the most rationally promising solution, but on the most likely route to success

Coordinates of revolution, state, and uneven development in modern Mexico -- Mexican Revolution, primitive accumulation passive revolution -- Capital accumulation, state formation, and import substitution industrialization -- Neoliberalism and structural change within the global political economy of uneven development -- Intellectuals and the state : a critical social function or in the shadow of the state? -- The political economy of democratization and democratic transition -- Uneven agrarian development and the resistance of the EZLN -- Conclusion : permanent passive revolution? -- Epilogue : telescoping passive revolution

Now in an updated edition, this groundbreaking study develops a new approach to understanding the formation of the postrevolutionary state in Mexico. Adam David Morton links the rise and demise of the modern Mexican state to ongoing forms of class struggle that have shaped and restructured state and civil society. He thus sheds valuable interdisciplinary light on debates on state formation by recovering radical tools of analysis, such as uneven development and class struggle, for the wider study of past and present politics in Mexico and, more broadly, Latin America. A substantive

Unravelling Gramsci makes extensive use of Antonio Gramsci's writings, including his much- overlooked pre-prison journalism, prison letters, as well as his prison notebooks, to provide a fresh approach to understanding his contemporary relevance in the current neoliberal world order. Adam Morton examines in detail the themes of hegemony, passive revolution and uneven development to provide a useful way of analysing the contemporary global political economy, the project of neoliberalism, processes of state formation, and practices of resistance. The book explores the theoretical and practical limitations of how Gramsci's ideas can be used today, offering a broad insight into state formation and the international factors shaping hegemony within a capitalist framework

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Reading Gramsci -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: the North/ South Question of Uneven Development -- 2 Historicising Gramsci: Situating Ideas in and Beyond their Context -- 3 State Formation, Passive Revolution and the International System -- 4 A Return to Gramsci: ' The Moment of Hegemony' -- 5 Hegemony and World Order: Neo- Gramscian Perspectives and the Global Political Economy -- 6 The Global Political Economy of Uneven Development -- 7 Globalisation and Resistance: The Power of the Powerless -- 8 Conclusions against the Prison Notebooks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.