Télécharger le livre :  Being in Flux
Reality exists independently of human observers, but does the same apply to its structure? Realist ontologies usually assume so: according to them, the world consists of objects, these have properties and enter into relations with each other, more or less as we are...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  In AI We Trust
One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI – and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the...

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Parution : 2021-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Freedom
The contentious role of social media in recent elections and referendums has brought to the fore once again the fundamental question of media freedom and the extent to which, and the way in which, the media should be regulated in a modern democratic society. This book...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Nature's Evil
This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of characters and in this story the leading actors are peat and hemp, grain...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-12
Collection : New Russian Thought ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Environmental Sociology?
Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more. We now face global environmental threats, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as local threats, such as pollution and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-09
Collection : What is Sociology? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Living on the Edge
For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life. Some work multiple low-wage jobs, others face the squeeze of stagnant wages and rising costs of living. Sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale talked with people across Appalachia, at the Standing Rock...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-07-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Conservatism
Conservatism is often labelled as a ‘disposition’, ‘tradition’, or even a set of knee-jerk reactions, rather than an ideology, and its suspicion of grand theorising has lent itself to this characterization. In this book, leading political theorist Edmund Neill...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-07-20
Collection : Key Concepts in Political Theory ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Metaphysics of German Idealism
This volume comprises the lecture course that Heidegger gave in 1941 on the metaphysics of German Idealism. The first part of the lecture course contains a preliminary consideration of the distinction between ground and existence. The elucidation of the conceptual...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-07-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics, Economy, and Society
The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is rarely viewed through the lens of political philosophy, and yet questions of power, and of how to live together in the polis, were a constant preoccupation of his writings. This volume brings together a selection of his texts spanning...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Play in Renaissance Italy
From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Information at War
A war’s outcome is determined by more than bullets and bombs. In our digital age, the proliferation of new media venues has magnified the importance of information – whether its content is true or purposely false – in battling an enemy and defending the public. In this...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Illusions
We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future.  Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Youth on Screen
Right from the origins of cinema, countless films and television dramas have offered sensational and seductive representations of young people's lives. Youth is typically associated with energy, idealism and physical beauty, but it is often represented as both troubled...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Leaders
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palliative Society
Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Policy
Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Affluence and Freedom
In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Socialism for Soloists
The idea of socialism is making a comeback, particularly among rising generations. Their interest is likely to prove transitory, however, if socialism ignores their yearning for individual autonomy. Why should “soloists” embrace socialism? In this highly original new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Postliberal Politics
Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Are There Still Creationists?
The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-15
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