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Resonance
A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World
Av Hartmut Rosa
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
275 kr
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The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any more happy or content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in 'resonance'. The quality of a human life cannot be measured …
Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
185 kr
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Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the …
Uncontrollability of the World
Av Hartmut Rosa
Häftad, 2020
258 kr
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The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has …
Non-things
Upheaval in the Lifeworld
Häftad, 2022
215 kr
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We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things – a constantly expanding "infosphere" of information and communication …
In Praise of the Earth
A Journey into the Garden
Inbunden, 2025
218 kr
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it.The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to …
Spirit of Hope
Inbunden, 2024
194 kr
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A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with …
Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
Häftad, 2022
184 kr
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Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahâyâna Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct. But despite Zen Buddhism's …
New Dark Age
Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars
Av Nigel Biggar
Inbunden, 2026
190 kr
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In an increasingly polarized age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often dismissed as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or are they actually more fundamental than that?In this thoughtful and passionate intervention, …
Time and World
Av Hartmut Rosa, Frederic Vandenberghe
Häftad, 2025
231 kr
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Hartmut Rosa is a leading social theorist whose books on social acceleration and resonance have become milestones in discussions about the problems and promises of late modern societies. Rosa not only presents a critical diagnosis of our times but also searches for innovative solutions. This new …
Scent of Time
A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
Häftad, 2017
196 kr
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In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being …
Liquid Modernity
Häftad, 2000
227 kr
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In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of …
Care Economy
Av Tim Jackson
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irreducible good. But …
Fairies
A History
Inbunden, 2026
288 kr
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Many people think they know what fairies are, what a fairy looks like, and how a fairy is expected to behave. Francis Young's new history of fairies demonstrates that the truth about belief in fairies is far stranger than clichéd images of tiny figures with wings and wands.Before the rise of the …
Why Love Hurts
A Sociological Explanation
Av Eva Illouz
Häftad, 2013
192 kr
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Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling …
I Suffer Therefore I Am
Portrait of the Victim as Hero
Inbunden, 2025
226 kr
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In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow. Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries. It provides you with a borrowed identity, transforming you into an exceptional being who can show off on the public stage at …
Great Realignment
Why the New Right is Here to Stay
Inbunden, 2026
226 kr
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The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status …
Pornocracy
Inbunden, 2025
222 kr
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They say everybody uses porn. They're wrong. People don't use pornography: it uses us. And you don't have to watch it to be one of its victims.In this thought-provoking and timely book, Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel expose how the multi-billion-dollar pornography industry has humanity gripped in a …
Exclusion and the New Politics of Hatred
Av Colin Crouch
Inbunden, 2026
222 kr
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Colin Crouch argues that at the base of all political conflicts are struggles over which types of people should be included in and which excluded from various rights, including the right to exist at all within a particular society. This is more fundamental than any conflict between left and right …
Inspiration
Where the Best Ideas Come From
Inbunden, 2025
220 kr
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Inspiration propels us. It’s the basis of every accomplishment. But the idea that it simply falls into your lap is a myth. Inspiration doesn’t come to us in a gust of wind, only to disappear into the mist again. You make it happen; it’s a reward for work that you’ve already done. The combination of …
Not Your Victim
How our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us
Inbunden, 2026
196 kr
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Empire and race have become the most discussed – and most problematic – subjects in political and historical discourse. It is now an unquestionable orthodoxy both in academia and in progressive political discourse that European colonial empires – particularly the British – were uniquely evil, the …
Same Player Shoots Again
A Biography of the Pinball Machine
Häftad, 2026
115 kr
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This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub, and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. Andreas Bernard, looking back on his coming of age as an …
Pharma Monopoly
The Battle for the Future of Medicines
Inbunden, 2026
258 kr
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It is no secret that billions of people across the world lack the freedom and right to access life-saving medicines. For decades, people have fought to put this, though, as the Covid-19 pandemic made sickeningly clear, vast swaths of humanity are still left without. The reason: people are actively …
Against Post-Liberalism
Why 'Family, Faith and Flag' is a Dead End for the Left
Av Paul Kelly
Häftad, 2025
194 kr
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Liberal politics is in crisis and it is a crisis of its own making – so say the post-liberals whose new ideology of family, faith and flag is shaping debates about the future of the Left. But are they right? Does post-liberalism offer credible answers to the problems that characterise our …
History of Pizza
Av Luca Cesari
Inbunden, 2025
233 kr
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Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how did it rise from its humble beginnings to become the world’s best-loved dish?The story begins …
Capitalism and the Death Drive
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer productive, but rather destructive. Capitalism …
AIDS in Africa
How the Poor are Dying
Av Nana K. Poku
Häftad, 2006
259 kr
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Across Africa, HIV/AIDS is slowly killing millions of people in the prime of their lives, weakening state structures, deepening poverty and reversing the gains in life expectancy achieved over the past century. Although many who study the dynamics of Africas AIDS crisis accept that, to some degree, …
Sociology for AQA Volume 1
AS and 1st-Year A Level
Av Ken Browne
Häftad, 2015
316 kr
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An AQA-approved resource. Sociology for AQA Volume 1 is the new edition of Ken Browne�s invaluable and widely used textbook, designed for AQA�s new Sociology AS level and Year 1 A level (for first teaching from September 2015). The book combines sociological rigour and accessibility, matching the …
Sociology for AQA Volume 2
2nd-Year A Level
Av Ken Browne, Jonathan Blundell m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
331 kr
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An AQA-approved resource. Sociology for AQA Volume 2 is the new edition of Ken Browne, Jonathan Blundell and Pamela Law's widely used textbook, designed for the second year of AQA's new Sociology A level (for first teaching from September 2015). The book's combination of sociological rigour and …
New Empire of AI
The Future of Global Inequality
Av Rachel Adams
Häftad, 2026
117 kr
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As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it. As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing inequality is the single …
Real Gender
A Cis Defence of Trans Realities
Av Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Constantine Sandis
Häftad, 2024
205 kr
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Societies around the world are struggling to think clearly about trans realities and understand trans identities. Real Gender is the first book to present a cis defence of what it means to be transgender. Moyal-Sharrock and Sandis delve into the various factors which make many trans people’s …
