Polity imprint: 1443 books
The Phenomenal Woman
Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self. Using a diverse range of theories - from Kant to chaos theory, from Kierkegaard to Deleuze, Irigaray, Butler and Oliver Sachs - this book...
by Jacques Rancière
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the victims of such events?
Rancière...
The Method of Equality
Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too...
by Nikki Craske
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions and feminisms.
by Nazli Kibria, Cara Bowman, Megan O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. With Latinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, attention has been focused on the important implications of immigration for the character and role of race in US life, including patterns of racial...
Jesus in Disneyland
Religion in Postmodern Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.'
In the World Interior of Capital
Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and philosophical consequences...
What Happened in the Twentieth Century?
Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities...
Fat
A Cultural History of Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a...
Gadamer
Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Hans-Georg Gadamer is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His philosophical hermeneutics has had a major impact in a wide range of disciplines, including the social sciences, literary criticism, theology and jurisprudence. Truth and Method, his major work, is widely recognised to be...
British Foreign Policy
Crises, Conflicts and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Britain has been a significant voice in global politics in the last two decades and its impact on world events far outweighs its material resources. But how does a small island on the edge of Europe continue to exercise this level of power on an international scale? What kind of actor is Britain internationally?...
Foucault and Feminism
Power, Gender and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault.
Philosophy
Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men and women?
In four lively chapters, Beebee and Rush explain philosophy’s role in addressing...
by Ronald Loeffler
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemporary American philosophers, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical communities on both sides of the Atlantic. His innovative approach to language and rationality combines the philosophies of language and mind, epistemology,...