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41 produkter
Humanitarianism and Modern Culture
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 2010
498 kr
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It seems paradoxical that in the West the predominant mode of expressing concern about suffering in the Third World comes through participation in various forms of popular culture—such as buying tickets to a rock concert like Live Aid in 1985—rather than through political action based on expert …
Humanitarianism and Modern Culture
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2010
773 kr
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Humanitarianism and Modern Culture is a timely and fascinating book which cuts across reportage of pop literary references to illuminate our understanding of the role of popular culture in shaping humanitarian discourse. --Ruti Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law …
Two Sovereigns
Social Contradictions of European Modernity
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 1992
764 kr
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This book is invariably stimulating, containing many interesting and provocative ideas on issues central both to social theory and to making sense of the world(s) in which we live. It develops a series of original images or metaphors - gardens v. allotments, double strangers and so on - as aids to …
Life and Times of Post-Modernity
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 1993
822 kr
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'Postmodernity' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements from …
Media Culture & Morality
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 1994
371 kr
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First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author seizes upon the disparity between the enormous …
Inhuman Condition
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 1995
822 kr
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This book offers a major interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships, encompassing the work of thinkers such as Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel.
Panic
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2012
2441 kr
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Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen?This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop …
Panic
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 2012
601 kr
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Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen?This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop …
Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman
Av Zygmunt Bauman, Keith Tester
Häftad, 2001
275 kr
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Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never forgets that social thought ought to help men and women make sense of their lives and aspire towards something different. His books and essays always …
Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman
Av Keith Tester, Zygmunt Bauman
E-bok, 2013
261 kr
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Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never forgets that social thought ought to help men and women make sense of their lives and aspire towards something different. His books and essays always …
What Use is Sociology?
Conversations with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester
Av Zygmunt Bauman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
637 kr
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What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the world's leading thinkers offers …
What Use is Sociology?
Conversations with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester
Av Zygmunt Bauman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
217 kr
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What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the world's leading thinkers offers …
What Use is Sociology?
Conversations with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester
Av Keith Tester, Michael Hviid Jacobsen m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
245 kr
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What''s the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the world''s leading thinkers …
Inhuman Condition
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2002
949 kr
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This book offers a major interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships, encompassing the work of thinkers such as Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel.
Inhuman Condition
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2002
970 kr
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This book offers a major interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships, encompassing the work of thinkers such as Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel.
Life and Times of Post-Modernity
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2002
949 kr
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''Postmodernity'' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements …
Life and Times of Post-Modernity
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2002
970 kr
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''Postmodernity'' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements …
Two Sovereigns
Social Contradictions of European Modernity
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2002
441 kr
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This book is invariably stimulating, containing many interesting and provocative ideas on issues central both to social theory and to making sense of the world(s) in which we live. It develops a series of original images or metaphors - gardens v. allotments, double strangers and so on - as aids to …
Two Sovereigns
Social Contradictions of European Modernity
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2002
441 kr
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This book is invariably stimulating, containing many interesting and provocative ideas on issues central both to social theory and to making sense of the world(s) in which we live. It develops a series of original images or metaphors - gardens v. allotments, double strangers and so on - as aids to …
Media Culture & Morality
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2013
424 kr
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First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author seizes upon the disparity between the enormous …
Media Culture & Morality
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2013
433 kr
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First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author seizes upon the disparity between the enormous …
Panic
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2013
707 kr
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Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop …
Panic
Av Keith Tester
E-bok, 2013
707 kr
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Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop …
Utopia: Social Theory and the Future
Av Keith Tester, Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
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In the light of globalization's failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun for alternative visions of the future; alternatives to the free market and to rampant capitalism. …
Animals and Society
The Humanity of Animal Rights
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2014
2512 kr
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Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves from incidents like the medieval execution of pigs to a discussion of the politics and strategies of modern rights organisations. The book also …
Civil Society
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2014
1230 kr
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This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society created a milieu which was at once the location and defence of social self-sufficiency in the …
Flaneur
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2014
2512 kr
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Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter …
Two Sovereigns
Social Contradictions of European Modernity
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 2015
386 kr
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This book is invariably stimulating, containing many interesting and provocative ideas on issues central both to social theory and to making sense of the world(s) in which we live. It develops a series of original images or metaphors - gardens v. allotments, double strangers and so on - as aids to …
Animals and Society
The Humanity of Animal Rights
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 2015
750 kr
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Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves from incidents like the medieval execution of pigs to a discussion of the politics and strategies of modern rights organisations. The book also …
Flaneur
Av Keith Tester
Häftad, 2015
793 kr
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Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter …
