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Télécharger le livre :  The Democratic Regression
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The Democratic Regression


Stephen Curtis , Armin Schäfer , Michael Zürn


There is a tendency in public debate to downplay the significance of populism by attributing its rise to the inadequacies of those who vote for populist leaders and parties.  But this way of thinking prevents us from seeing that the rise of populism may be linked to...

Parution : 2023-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Foreverism
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Foreverism


Grafton Tanner


What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize...

Parution : 2023-10-30
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Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The Kindertransport
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The Kindertransport


Andrea Hammel


In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a...

Parution : 2023-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Guarded Age
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The Guarded Age


David J. Betz


The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated, and – quite literally – fortified. We are living in a guarded age. Why and how has this happened? Where will...

Parution : 2023-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Conspiracy and Power
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Conspiracy and Power


David Broder , Donatella Di Cesare


Conspiracy theories are neither delusions nor lies, neither simplistic fallacies nor psychological quirks: rather, they are a political problem. They are not so much about truth as about power. Rather than seeking to debunk conspiracy theories as the work of fringe...

Parution : 2023-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Vita Contemplativa
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Vita Contemplativa


Byung-Chul Han , Daniel Steuer


In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity – even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more...

Parution : 2023-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Socialization
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Socialization


Muriel Darmon , Lucy Garnier


How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives...

Parution : 2023-10-23
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Collection : Key Concepts
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Télécharger le livre :  The Futures of Racial Capitalism
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The Futures of Racial Capitalism


Gargi Bhattacharyya


Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable, still now, to build...

Parution : 2023-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Composition of Worlds
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The Composition of Worlds


Philippe Descola


In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the past forty years. A...

Parution : 2023-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Name of Sharks
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In the Name of Sharks


Stephen Muecke , François Sarano


Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experienced a profound sense of affinity with her as they swam side by side,...

Parution : 2023-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Theory of AI
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Critical Theory of AI


Simon Lindgren


We live in an age of artificial intelligence. Machines think and act in ever more complex ways, making suggestions and decisions on our behalf. While AI might be seen as practical and profitable, issues of data surveillance, algorithmic control, and sexist and racist...

Parution : 2023-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethical Violence
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Ethical Violence


Carlo Bordoni


Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of...

Parution : 2023-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Middle East
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The Middle East


Jean-Pierre Filiu


The Middle East, often referred to as the cradle of the three monotheisms, is saturated with symbolism. Situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, it is a land marked by the rich confluence of religions and peoples.  It has also been the focal point of...

Parution : 2023-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics
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A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics


Ciaran Cronin , Jürgen Habermas


Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blending philosophy and social history, it offered an account of the...

Parution : 2023-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Platforms, Power, and Politics
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Platforms, Power, and Politics


Ulrike Klinger , Daniel Kreiss , Bruce Mutsvairo


Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments for world leaders, campaigns, social movements, journalists, and...

Parution : 2023-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  After Nativism
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After Nativism


Ash Amin


Increasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalization, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to Brazil, India and Turkey, support has grown for a nativist politics attacking...

Parution : 2023-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Inhabit the Earth
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How to Inhabit the Earth


Bruno Latour , Julie Rose


In a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life...

Parution : 2023-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism
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The Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism


Nikos Papastergiadis


Cosmopolitanism is commonly associated today with the idea that the forces of globalization could be tempered by new forms of cosmopolitan governance, an idea that was popular among some political theorists in the late twentieth century but seems increasingly...

Parution : 2023-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Lethal Intersections
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Lethal Intersections


Patricia Hill Collins


School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. What are the connections between such incidents of violence and extreme harm? In this new book, world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how...

Parution : 2023-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Democratic Theory
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Contemporary Democratic Theory


Simone Chambers


Is democracy worth saving? Responding to the erosion of democracy, philosophical debates have pivoted from analyzing the best forms of democracy to questioning what is so valuable about democracy to begin with, how we can save it, and whether it is indeed worth...

Parution : 2023-10-06
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