Télécharger le livre :  Precarious Lives
Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers and governments to workers. Arne L. Kalleberg examines the impact of the liberalization of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Economy and Society: Selected Writings
Few figures are more crucial to understanding the upheavals of our contemporary era than Karl Polanyi. In a world riven by social and economic crises, from rising inequality to the decay of democratic institutions and profound technological disruption, Polanyi’s...

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Parution : 2018-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Experience
This book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. Lash argues that a large part of the output of the social sciences today is still shaped by assumptions stemming from positivism, in contrast to the tradition of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Seduction
Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. Though it has been an object of media speculation – and frequent...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?
States claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are labelled ‘illegal’ and find themselves vulnerable and unrepresented. The international state system advantages the lucky...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Capitalism
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism,” upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They...

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Télécharger le livre :  Can Democracy Handle Climate Change?
Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracies have the ability to cope with the causes and long-term consequences of a changing climate. Some even argue that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Returned
Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, many have been killed, but some have chosen to return to their countries of origin. French Journalist David Thomson met some of those who...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Life
How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?
Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  A Philosophy for Europe
Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside – the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism – have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe. Given a paradigm leap of this sort, philosophical reflection...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Radicalized Loyalties
There is widespread concern today about the “radicalization” of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism. But how do young Muslims growing up in the cities of the West really live?...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Economic Anthropology
This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Fascism
The word ‘fascism’ sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political right, from Hitler to Donald Trump and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that it lacks any distinctive conceptual meaning at all, others have...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for a Maximum Wage
Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more effectively than...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Judgment
Politics is the process by which communities collectively decide to pursue certain courses of action. It is, as such, always a matter of judgment. Courses of action are chosen at least in part because they are somehow adjudged better than the alternatives, and this has...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of Human Rights
Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world – from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons – need human rights to gain recognition, campaign for justice, and save lives. But how can we secure a brighter future...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Silence
Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Marx
Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Yet the nature of its relevance and some of its key tenets remain poorly understood. This bold intervention brings together the work of leading Marx scholars Slavoj...

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Parution : 2018-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  On Ethnography
In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life. In this book, sociologists Sarah...

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