Polity imprint: 1443 books
The Global Age
State and Society Beyond Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Many authors who discuss the idea of globalization see it as continuing pre-established paths of development of modern societies. Post-modernist writers, by contrast, have lost sight of the importance of historical narrative altogether. Martin Albrow argues that neither group is able to recognize...
Heidegger
Thinking of Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Martin Heidegger is among the most important philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Within the continental tradition, almost every great figure has been deeply influenced by his work. For this reason, a full understanding of the course of modern philosophy is impossible without at least a basic grasp...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it’s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness?
That is precisely the issue at stake...
by David J. Gunkel, Paul A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The most significant philosopher of Being, Martin Heidegger has nevertheless largely been ignored within communications studies. This book sets the record straight by demonstrating the profound implications of his unique philosophical project for our understanding of today’s mediascape. The full...
Reflections on America
Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of ‘the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States. Claus Offe considers the perspectives adopted by three...
The Nation in History
Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.
In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he argues that there are three...
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Essays After Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten book. That is why the texts presented here, which sketch a philosophical physiognomy of Martin Heidegger, should also be characterized as a collected renunciation of exhaustiveness.
In order to...
The Constitution of Society
Outline of the Theory of Structuration
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration...
The Theory of Communicative Action
Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. It is Habermas' "magnum opus", and it is regarded as one of the most important works of modern social thought. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines...
by Janet Todd
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.
by Zygmunt Bauman
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become...
by Sonya O. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins and development of the...
Culture and Equality
An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live. How should public policy respond to this diversity? In this important new work, Brian Barry challenges the currently orthodox answer and develops...
by Cecile Fabre
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities? Should rich countries open their borders to economic immigrants or transfer resources to poor countries? When framing and implementing economic and environmental policies, should current generations take into account the interests...