Contradictions of Modernity – serie
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Prisons of Poverty
Häftad, 2009
366 kr
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An international best seller dissects the globalization of penal policies “made in U.S.A.” as part of the spread of neoliberalismIn the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous “squeegee man.” …
History of Structuralism
Volume 1: the Rising Sign, 1945-1966
Häftad, 1998
411 kr
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The first comprehensive history of one of the most influential intellectual movements of the twentieth century.Structuralism has had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from anthropology to philosophy, from history to psychoanalysis. FranÇois Dosse tells the …
Force of Prejudice
On Racism and Its Doubles
Häftad, 2001
290 kr
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Can humanity escape segregating behavior or master the tendency to exclusion? Where does the force of prejudice come from? How might one conceive the philosophical foundations of an effective antiracism? Pursuing these questions, Pierre-AndrÉ Taguieff puts forward a powerful thesis: that racism has …
Internationalism and Its Betrayal
Häftad, 1995
545 kr
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Internationalism and Its Betrayal was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.A new world order, proclaimed Western leaders …
Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent
The East German Opposition and Its Legacy
Häftad, 1995
678 kr
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Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the …
Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics
Häftad, 1997
347 kr
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Eminent contributors consider what Hannah Arendt means in today’s public debates.Is politics really nothing more than power relations, competing interests and claims for recognition, conflicting assertions of “simple” truths? No thinker has argued more passionately against this narrow view than …
Questions of Modernity
Häftad, 2000
316 kr
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Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts.Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty-which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. This …
1989
Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals
Häftad, 2001
340 kr
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In 1989, from East Berlin to Budapest and Bucharest to Moscow, communism was falling. The walls were coming down and the world was being changed in ways that seemed entirely new. The conflict of ideas and ideals that began with the French Revolution of 1789 culminated in these revolutions, which …
Sacred Revolutions
Durkheim and the College De Sociologie
Häftad, 2002
288 kr
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Explores the role of the sacred in the response of French intellectuals to the rise of fascism during the 1930sHow is it that the most radical cultural iconoclasts of the interwar years-Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Michel Leiris-could have responded to the rise of fascism by taking refuge …
Ethnological Imagination
A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity
Häftad, 2004
288 kr
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A significant intervention in contemporary debates about cross-cultural understandingFuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms “the ethnological imagination,” a substantial countercurrent of thought that interprets and contests Western modernity’s existing social order through comparison and contrast …
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Häftad, 2003
270 kr
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A timely exploration of the nature of memory and its political usesHearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for “the disappeared” in Argentina, the investigation of the death of former president …
Multicultural Politics
Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain
Av Tariq Modood
Häftad, 2005
319 kr
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If, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line, the problem of the twenty-first century may be one that reaches back to premodernity: religious identity. Even before 9/11 it was becoming evident that Muslims, not blacks, were perceived as …
Socialism and Modernity
Häftad, 2009
304 kr
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This first collection of Peter Beilharz's highly influential thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz's analysis is the urgent question of modern utopia: how do …
Cultural Formations of Postcommunism
Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War
Häftad, 2002
330 kr
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A powerful exposition of how culture shapes social and political change."Transition" is the name typically given to the time of radical change following the fall of communism, connoting a shift from planned to market economy, from dictatorship to democracy. Transition is also, in Michael Kennedy’s …
Origins of Postcommunist Elites
From Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia
Av Gil Eyal
Häftad, 2003
296 kr
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How is it that Czechoslovakia’s separation into two countries in 1993 was accomplished so peacefully-especially when compared with the experiences of its neighbors Russia and Yugoslavia? This book provides a sociological answer to this question-and an empirical explanation for the breakup of …
Knowledge Power and Discipline
German Studies and National Identity
Häftad, 2003
288 kr
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An essential critical history of German studies as an academic disciplineGerman Studies has confronted many crises, as well as severe criticism and self-criticism, and yet it has managed to maintain its disciplinary system through every upheaval-the revolution of 1848, the establishment of the …
Theories of the New Class
Intellectuals and Power
Häftad, 2004
288 kr
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Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about intellectual class formation to social theoryOld as the notion of the “New Class” is (the term was coined by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin around 1870), the idea of the ascendancy of an intellectual elite continues to engage, and perplex, social theorists. …
