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Poetics of Crime
Understanding and Researching Crime and Deviance Through Creative Sources
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical …
Lost in Perfection
Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche
Av Vera King, Benigna Gerisch m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
746 kr
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The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an …
Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory
Häftad, 2018
798 kr
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This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising ‘social haunting’: the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again. Examining the relationship between …
Detective of Modernity
Essays on the Work of David Frisby
Av Georgia Giannakopoulou, Graeme Gilloch
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book explores the thought of – and is dedicated to – David Frisby, one of the leading sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Presenting original examinations of his unique social theory and underlining his interdisciplinary approach to the critical interpretation …
Anxiety and Lucidity
Reflections on Culture in Times of Unrest
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book explores the nature of modern culture as a culture of anxiety, analyzing the modes in which such anxiety presents itself. Drawing on sociological and philosophical concepts of modernity, the author builds on the work of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud to offer an understanding of modern …
Existence, Meaning, Excellence
Aristotelian Reflections on the Meaning of Life
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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This book addresses the ‘perennial’ question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s teleology. Beginning with the premise that at the core of modernity and modern moral imagination are the entropy of meaning and the sense of meaninglessness, the …
Politics and Recognition
Towards a New Political Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception. Engaging with the thought of a range of figures, including Veblen, Honneth, Foucault, Popper, and MacIntyre, it explores the nature of political …
New Narcissus in the Age of Reality Television
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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This book explores the emergence and encouragement of the new narcissus in our society and the ways in which this is portrayed in reality television. Through studies of well-known reality shows, including Toddlers and Tiaras, Hoarders, Sister Wives, Catfish: The TV Show, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. …
We Count, We Matter
Voice, Choice and the Death of Distance
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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This book examines the meaning of Brexit, the election of Trump and the rising tide of populist revolt on the right amidst the collapse of the left. Exploring the reaction against the establishment or ‘the system’, the author contends that we are witnessing a new divide between those who wish to …
Depressive Love
A Social Pathology
Av Emma Engdahl
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have become intertwined to such an extent that it is informative to talk about depressive love. Indeed, the most common source of depression is intimate …
Ultimate Sacrifice
Martyrdom, Sovereignty, and Secularization in the West
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book presents an interpretive, macro-historical, and sociological account of martyrdom. Moving away from the notion of martyrdom as an object of individual behavior and seeing it instead as a significant cultural work performed by communities in the wake of a violent death, it provides a novel …
Urban Walls
Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces
Av Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Mattias Kärrholm
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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In recent years, an increasing number of separation walls have been built around the world. Walls built in urban areas are particularly striking in that they have exacted a heavy toll in terms of human suffering. As territorialising devices, walls can be protective, but the protection they grant is …
Towards a General Theory of Boredom
A Case Study of Anglo and Russian Society
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Through comparative historical research, this book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian topology of cross-cultural boredom, it grounds the sociological cause of boredom in anomie and the perception of time, compares its development through …
Roots of Sociology
Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process
Av Alex Law
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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This book argues that of today’s ‘core’ social scientific disciplines, it is sociology that has inherited the capacious ambitions of the Scottish Enlightenment. Departing from the practice of classifying thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment using modern disciplinary categories that they …
Anxiety and Lucidity
Reflections on Culture in Times of Unrest
Häftad, 2022
675 kr
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This book explores the nature of modern culture as a culture of anxiety, analyzing the modes in which such anxiety presents itself. Drawing on sociological and philosophical concepts of modernity, the author builds on the work of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud to offer an understanding of modern …
Making the Familiar Strange
Sociology Contra Reification
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, ‘make the familiar strange’. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to ‘make the familiar strange’, and how this approach benefits sociological …
Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life
A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being
Av Garrett Thomson, Scherto Gill m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neoclassical economic assumptions, however, the field is …
Towards a General Theory of Boredom
A Case Study of Anglo and Russian Society
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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Through comparative historical research, this book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian topology of cross-cultural boredom, it grounds the sociological cause of boredom in anomie and the perception of time, compares its development through …
Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist
On Human Nature and the Civilizing Process
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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This book offers a new account of Freud’s work by reading him as the social theorist and philosopher he always aspired to be, and not as the medical scientist he publicly claimed to be. In doing so, the author demonstrates that’s Freud’s social, moral, and cultural thought constitutes the core of …
Updating Charles H. Cooley
Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic
Av Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Baptiste Brossard
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooley’s thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflect on Cooley’s theory and legacy. Offering an up-to-date analysis of Cooley’s reception in the history of the social sciences, an examination of …
Beyond Bauman
Critical engagements and creative excursions
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Bauman’s work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an object of criticism and as a stepping stone towards a fuller understanding of contemporary society. The …
Diagnostic Cultures
A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence for the progress of psychiatry, a discipline that is now able to identify and treat mental illnesses that have always …
Max Weber's Theory of Modernity
The Endless Pursuit of Meaning
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This book illuminates an important dimension of the work of Max Weber. Weber’s theory of meaning and modernity is articulated through an understanding of his account of the way in which the pursuit of meaning in the modern world has been shaped by the loss of Western religion and how such pursuit …
Being Human in a Consumer Society
Av Alejandro Néstor García Martínez
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy. With attention to a wide range of …
Making of a Postsecular Society
A Durkheimian Approach to Memory, Pluralism and Religion in Turkey
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies. Neo-Durkheimian categories are applied to the case of Turkey, which in recent years has shifted from a strong Republican …
Concept of Tragedy
Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times
Av Sam Han
Häftad, 2023
732 kr
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Events in the world today appear to be increasingly uncontrollable and unknowable. Climate change, refugee crises, and global pandemics seem to demonstrate the limits of human reason, science, and technology. In light of this, the terms "tragedy" and "tragic" have come into greater use. What does …
Concept of Tragedy
Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times
Av Sam Han
Inbunden, 2023
2904 kr
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Events in the world today appear to be increasingly uncontrollable and unknowable. Climate change, refugee crises, and global pandemics seem to demonstrate the limits of human reason, science, and technology. In light of this, the terms "tragedy" and "tragic" have come into greater use. What does …
Reading Talcott Parsons
A Re-Assessment of His Legacy
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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Addressing the neglect of the work of Talcott Parsons, the complexity of whose thought and the opacity of whose writing style can prove daunting, this book provides a comprehensible account of the major theoretical accomplishments in his work and the reasons for which his legacy remains important …
Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust
Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions
Av Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzeziński
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing together leading scholars from across …
Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust
Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions
Av Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzeziński
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing together leading scholars from across …
