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Télécharger le livre :  Resonance
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Resonance


Hartmut Rosa


The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.”The quality of a human...

Parution : 2024-04-04
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Slum Acts
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Slum Acts


Veena Das


This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces,...

Parution : 2022-02-01
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : After the Postcolonial
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Health Studies
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Contemporary Health Studies


Ruth Cross , Diane Lowcock , Louise Warwick-Booth


Contemporary Health Studies provides an accessible introduction to current issues and key debates in understanding and promoting health. Its up-to-date, global focus places a strong emphasis on the social, political and environmental dimensions of health. Part One sets...

Parution : 2021-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Planetary Social Thought
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Planetary Social Thought


Nigel Clark , Bronislaw Szerszynski


The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with...

Parution : 2020-10-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poetics of Digital Media
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The Poetics of Digital Media


Paul Frosh


Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for...

Parution : 2018-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  History and Social Theory
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History and Social Theory


Peter Burke


What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and updated in...

Parution : 2018-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Decline of Modernism
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The Decline of Modernism


Peter Bürger


In this lucid and stimulating new book, Peter Burger, one of the foremost literary critics in Germany today, addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the...

Parution : 2018-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Stress and Freedom
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Stress and Freedom


Peter Sloterdijk


In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in...

Parution : 2018-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason


Theodor W. Adorno


Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world. Yet although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl and Kierkegaard, the closest he came to an extended discussion ofKant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason and the other on...

Parution : 2018-03-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Persistence of Modernity
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The Persistence of Modernity


Albrecht Wellmer


In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post-modernity. Discussing the work of Adorno, Habermas, Peter Burger and Jean-François Lyotard, among others, he offers a penetrating analysis of the aesthetic, ethical and...

Parution : 2018-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sacrament of Language
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The Sacrament of Language


Giorgio Agamben


Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, anthropologists and historians of law and of religion, there exists no complete analysis of the oath which seeks to...

Parution : 2018-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Handbook of Transnational Governance
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The Handbook of Transnational Governance


Thomas Hale , David Held


When we speak of global governance today, we no longer mean simply state-to-state diplomacy, international treaties, or intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations. Alongside these ‘traditional' elements of global politics are a host of new institutions...

Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Old Age and Other Essays
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Old Age and Other Essays


Norberto Bobbio , Allan Cameron


This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Améry, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times....

Parution : 2017-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Ordinary Organisations
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Ordinary Organisations


Stefan Kühl


During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of...

Parution : 2017-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  International Relations Theory Today
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International Relations Theory Today


Ken Booth , Toni Erskine


International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global condition of human society. The result is an important, dynamic and often deeply divided field. This long-awaited new edition ofInternational Relations Theory Today offers...

Parution : 2016-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  War and Conflict in Africa
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War and Conflict in Africa


Paul D. Williams


After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop...

Parution : 2016-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  On Voluntary Servitude
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On Voluntary Servitude


Michael Rosen


This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?

Parution : 2016-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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Philosophy of the Social Sciences


Patrick Baert


In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places key writers in...

Parution : 2016-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Time Pioneers
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Time Pioneers


Anette Gerhard , Karl H. Hörning , Matthias Michailow


In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.

Parution : 2015-10-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Life Course
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Understanding the Life Course


Lorraine Green


Understanding the Life Course provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to understanding the entire life course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining the important insights sociology and psychology have to bring to the study of the life course, the book...

Parution : 2015-02-03
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Éditeur : Polity
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