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Critical Theory and New Materialisms
Av Hartmut Rosa, Christoph Henning m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another – critical theory and new materialism – this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist between these two schools of thought. With a …
Fascist Temptation
Creating a Political Community of Experience
Av David Ohana
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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This book posits a new theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience.The author engages with a range of thinkers both critical of and inspiring fascism including Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.This book will be …
Social Life of Nothing
Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness in Tales of Lost Experience
Av Susie Scott
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are …
Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies
Learning to Live with the Future
Av Stephen Gough, Andrew Stables
Häftad, 2011
762 kr
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Much of the world will be living in broadly "liberal" societies for the foreseeable future. Sustainability and security, however defined, must therefore be considered in the context of such societies, yet there is very little significant literature that does so. Indeed, much ecologically-oriented …
Return of the Common Good
The Postliberal Project Left and Right
Av Stefan Borg
Inbunden, 2025
2359 kr
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In this book, Stefan Borg reconstructs and engages a contemporary strand of thought known as postliberalism. Postliberalism, Borg argues, advances a distinct critique of liberalism, as well as an emphasis on the common good as a corrective to the perceived shortcomings of liberalism. The central …
Deciphering Goffman
The Structure of his Sociological Theory Revisited
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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Challenging the ‘classical’ conception of Goffman’s sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous interpretations and critical assessments of Goffman’s work.Epistemologically, the book acknowledges the important but overlooked influences of both …
Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches
Av Stefan Kühl
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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Using Marxist and systems theory as guides, this book offers an entry point to the current debate on the role of economy in modern society, the change in work organizations and the effect of the economy on the individual. It explores the concepts of ‘work society’, ‘industrial society’ and …
Social Change in a Material World
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of …
Social Change in a Material World
Häftad, 2019
648 kr
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Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of …
Elementary Forms of Social Relations
Status, power and reference groups
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status. This work is …
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies, and Desire
Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity
Av Ann Brooks
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional …
Citizenship in a Globalised World
Inbunden, 2021
2311 kr
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What does it mean to be a citizen of a democracy today? This book challenges us to re- evaluate and ultimately reorient our state- based conception of democratic citizenship in order to meaningfully account for the context in which it is lived: a globalised, deeply interconnected, and deeply unjust …
Communicative Reason
A Sociological Restatement
Inbunden, 2024
2512 kr
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The book examines philosophical and sociological approaches within critical theory and more widely from the vantage point of communicative reason. It seeks to revitalize the sociological dimension of critical theory by advancing a critical sociology of reason. It does so fully in the knowledge that …
Myth, Society and Profanation
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality.This work draws upon European cultural theorists, particularly Schelling, Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille and Baudrillard, to challenge …
Politics of Disgust
Selfhood, World-Making, and Ethics
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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This book explores the intersubjective nature of disgust, the fascination that often accompanies it—along with repulsion—and the ethical implications of the experience. With attention to what emotions do rather than what they necessarily are, it examines the ways in which disgust works to create …
Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse
On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences
Inbunden, 2023
2512 kr
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This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which scientific creativity occurs, it highlights …
Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism
Towards a General Theory
Av John Love
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber’s work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter’s thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the capitalist economy. Focusing on the …
Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity
An Unvarnished Overview
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists.In the context of an examination of …
Complexity, Society and Social Transactions
Developing a Comprehensive Social Theory
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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This book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other social institutions and structures. This theory is called social transaction theory. Using the framework of the complex adaptive systems model, this …
Critical Theories and the Budapest School
Politics, Culture, Modernity
Av John Rundell, Jonathan Pickle
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács, this book sheds new light on the unique and …
Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject
A Theory of Ideology via Marcuse, Jameson and Žižek
Av Jon Bailes
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject outlines a theory of ideological function and a range of ideological positions according to which individuals rationalise and accept socio-economic conditions in advanced consumer capitalist societies. Through a critical examination of the social and …
Property-Owning Democracy
Freedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
Av Gavin Kerr
Häftad, 2019
1005 kr
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The ideas of ‘predistribution’ and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal response to the problems of poverty, unemployment, economic insecurity, burgeoning socio-economic inequality, and economic instability, none of which the …
Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship
The Unfinished Story of American Democracy
Häftad, 2019
791 kr
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Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to bear a profound critique of a collective process that has historically excluded working class communities and communities of color from any real …
Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science
The Lost Heritage
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematised in the classic structural-functional research tradition, which is presented in Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science.In contrast to …
Marxist Theory of Ideology
Praxis, Thought and the Social World
Av Andrea Sau
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective. Advancing beyond the schemas of discussion presented in current Marxist literature, the author offers an account of how the concept of ideology should be defined and what role it plays within historical materialism. …
Against the Background of Social Reality
Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked
Av Carmelo Lombardo, Lorenzo Sabetta
Inbunden, 2023
2433 kr
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The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between how we attend to the culturally emphasized features of social reality and ignore the culturally unmarked ones. Concerned with the structures of …
Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society
Critical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 1
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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Investigating Karl Popper’s philosophy of critical rationalism, Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society, Volume 1, explores a non-justificationist conception of critical reason and its fundamental outcomes for the theory of society. Through a set of fundamental contributions to epistemology, …
Towards a Sociology of the Open Society
Critical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 2
Inbunden, 2022
2126 kr
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This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a new sociology of the open society, in general, and a new analysis of the transition from a closed society to an open society in particular. It presents a criticism of Karl Popper’s analysis of human action for …
Reconsidering Habermas’s Colonization Thesis
A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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This book reconsiders Habermas’s critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the author refines and redevelops Habermas’s system-lifeworld paradigm in three parts, focusing on system, lifeworld, and communication. The exposition …
Norbert Elias and the Analysis of History and Sport
Systematizing Figurational Sociology
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on ‘the pieces of the puzzle’, the puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards the background. Nonetheless, as humanity becomes ever more globalized, there is a greater need for in-depth …
