Peter Kellner: 4 books

Democracy is Britain's gift to the world. Most of the ideas and ideals that have shaped the world's democracies can be traced back to arguments and reforms that first erupted here. Democracy tells the thousand-year story of the bitter battles over those arguments and reforms, in the words of...

This is a comprehensive study of the 2015 general election in Britain designed not only for students and scholars of British politics, but also for the interested reader. It looks at the record of the Coalition government both in terms of its plans and performance, particularly in relation to the...

Il matrimonio come costruzione sociale è un esercizio di microsociologia del sapere che evidenzia la capacità dell’istituzione di generare un nomos condiviso. Con il matrimonio due estranei costruiscono, giorno dopo giorno, un universo simbolico condiviso e convalidato che li farà diventare persone...

Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions—appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence—that...