Télécharger le livre :  Democracy Against Liberalism
It should not surprise anyone that democracies can become dangerously illiberal; indeed, it was one of the classical critiques of ancient democracies. Is the contemporary backlash against liberal democracy merely the same old story, or are we witnessing something...

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Parution : 2020-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Power of Art
We live in an era of aesthetics. Art has become both pervasive and powerful – it is displayed not only in museums and galleries but also on the walls of corporations and it is increasingly fused with design. But what makes art so powerful, and in what does its power...

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Télécharger le livre :  The New Latin America
Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological modernization has...

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Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Autobiography
This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she...

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Parution : 2020-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Media Manifesto
Our media systems are in crisis. Run by unaccountable corporations and dominated by agendas and algorithms that are shrouded in mystery, these formerly trusted sources of information and entertainment have lost their way. As consumers, we have plenty of choice, but as...

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Parution : 2020-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams
For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by...

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Parution : 2020-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media
Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities.Drawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Is Free Speech Racist?
The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and frequently declared to be in crisis. Starting from the observation that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot be said in relation to race, Gavan Titley asks why racism has become so central to...

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Parution : 2020-07-09
Collection : Debating Race ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Excluding the Jew Within Us
Why does anti-Semitism seem to be so deeply engrained in our societies, our institutions and our attitudes?  To answer this question we need to look beyond our current practices and see that anti-Semitism has much deeper roots – that it is woven into the very structures...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  How Should Democracies Fight Terrorism?
In the wake of major terrorist attacks, calls for ever more draconian policies to prevent further outrages are common. Such responses raise the pressing question: is it possible to effectively fight terrorism while respecting democratic values of equality and trust?  ...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-30
Collection : Political Theory Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Bauman
Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an...

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Télécharger le livre :  The End of the Second Reconstruction
Democracy in the United States is under threat. The Trump administration’s attack on the legacy of the civil rights movement is undermining America’s claims to be a multi-racial democracy. This moment of peril has worrying parallels with a previous era of American...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Opinion
Is political polarization on the rise? Do various “populist” movements have anything in common?Is the opposition between left and right becoming obsolete and, if so, what might replace it? Many of the most pressing questions about contemporary politics involve public...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-30
Collection : Political Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Not One Less
On June 3, 2015, massive women’s street demonstrations took place in many cities across Argentina to protest against femicide.  Under the slogan Ni una menos, Not One (Woman) Less, thousands of women took to the streets to express their outrage at systematic violence...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Existentialism
Existentialism: An Introduction has established itself as the most comprehensive and accessible book on the subject available. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Kevin Aho draws on a wide range of existentialist thinkers from both the secular and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
On 6 April 1967, at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture which is not merely of historical interest. Against the background of the rise of the National Democratic Party of Germany, which had...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photography and film were groundbreaking and they anticipated many of the themes later developed members of the Frankfurt School and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for a Job Guarantee
One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false.  In this...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Colonialism of Human Rights
Do so-called universal human rights apply to indigenous, formerly enslaved and colonized peoples?This trenchant book brings human rights into conversation with the histories and afterlives of Western colonialism and slavery. Colin Samson examines the paradox that the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Pandemic!
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences?   We live in a moment...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-05-20
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