Télécharger le livre :  The Lure of Technocracy
Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Nonviolent Resistance
We see nonviolent resistance all over today’s world, from Egypt’s Tahrir Square to New York Occupy.  Although we think of the last century as one marked by wars and violent conflict, in fact it was just as much a century of nonviolence as the achievements of Mohandas...

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Télécharger le livre :  General Theory of Victims
The most accessible expression of François Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims. A key text in recent continental...

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Télécharger le livre :  Groups as Agents
In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S. Government believes that...

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Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Philosophy
Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which...

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Movements in Times of Austerity: Bringing Capitalism Back Into Protest Analysis
Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Inner Enemies of Democracy
The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy’s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism. This struggle ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet regime. Some people think that...

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Télécharger le livre :  Global Democratic Theory
Global Democratic Theory is the first comprehensive introduction to the changing contours of democracy in today’s hyperconnected world.  Accessibly written for readers new to the topic, it considers the impact of globalization and global forms of governance and activism...

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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy and the Idea of Communism
In a well-known text called ‘The Communist Hypothesis’, first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a...

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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Representative Politics
Representative politics is in crisis.  Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast.  Even oppositional and radical parties that should be benefitting from...

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Télécharger le livre :  Practices of Selfhood
Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with its unconscious. We no longer think of ourselves as stable and indivisible units or combinations thereof - instead, we...

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Télécharger le livre :  Communicating Health
The culture-centred approach offered in this book argues that communication theorizing ought to locate culture at the centre of the communication process such that the theories are contextually embedded and co-constructed through dialogue with the cultural participants....

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Télécharger le livre :  Persons and Things
What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito - one of Italy’s leading political philosophers - considers these questions and shows that starting from the body,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Party and State in Post-Mao China
In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that has been in power since 1949. But how has China’s political system achieved such longevity? And what does its...

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Télécharger le livre :  Metaphysics
This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics. Metaphysics for...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Secular State Under Siege
Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the...

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Parution : 2015-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Informal Media Economy
How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows?How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation?   The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and genuinely transnational account...

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Télécharger le livre :  Axel Honneth
With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, Axel Honneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory. Combining insights from philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political economy, and cultural critique,...

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Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Secular State Under Siege
Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the...

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Télécharger le livre :  China's Social Welfare
The extraordinary rise of China is one of the greatest global stories of recent times. However, China's development has been described as ‘uneven, uncoordinated, and unsustainable’, and has now reached a critical turning point. To transform itself into a successful...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-04-21
Collection : China Today ePub

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