Télécharger le livre :  Sexuality
The contemporary study of sexuality too often finds itself at an impasse, conceptualizing sexuality either psychologically or sociologically: sexologists and psychologists have tended to point to the biological origins of sexuality underpinned by hormones, drives and,...

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Parution : 2015-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Childhood
What is childhood? In recent years, a cluster of critical and complex ideas have emerged around the nature of biological, social and psychological growth in the early years, reflecting the changing nature of adult - child relations, and political and cultural...

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Télécharger le livre :  Elites
At a time when significant social status, economic resources, and political opportunities seem to become ever more unequally distributed and only available to a few, this book represents the first systematic effort in recent years to develop a sociological model of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere,...

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Parution : 2015-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Organizational Discourse
How can we study organizations from a discursive perspective? What are the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each perspective on organizational discourse? To what extent do discourse and communication constitute the organizational world? This accessible book...

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Parution : 2015-01-06
Collection : Key Themes in Organizational Communication ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  On the Logic of the Social Sciences
In this wide-ranging work, now available in paperback, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodology and concerns. He examines, among other things, the traditional division between the natural sciences and the social...

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Parution : 2015-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Pragmatics of Communication
This volume brings together Habermas's key writings on language and communication. Including some classic texts as well as new material which is published here for the first time, this book is a detailed and up-to-date introduction to Habermas's formal pragmatics, which...

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Parution : 2014-12-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Intellectuals and Power
In this important new book, the leading philosopher François Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in our societies today, specifically with regards to criminal justice. He argues that, rather than concerning themselves with abstract philosophical notions like...

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Parution : 2014-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth
What is truth? Is there anything that all truths have in common that makes them true rather than false? Is truth independent of human thought, or does it depend in some way on what we believe or what we would be justified in believing? In what sense, if any, is it...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-12-23
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociology of Human Rights
Long the arena of philosophers, legal scholars, and political scientists, the interdisciplinary study of human rights has recently seen an influx of sociologists. Why is this so, and how do sociologists contribute to our understanding of human rights in the contemporary...

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Parution : 2014-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Diplomatic Afterlives
No longer content to fade away into comfortable retirement, a growing number of former political leaders have pursued diplomatic afterlives. From Nelson Mandela to Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair and Mikhail Gorbachev, this set of highly-empowered...

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Parution : 2014-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction
The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology'. These lectures offer a preliminary view of what would becomeThe Theory of Communicative Action, and they...

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Parution : 2014-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth and Justification
In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy. While much of his recent work has been concerned with issues of morality and law, in this new work Habermas returns to the traditional philosophical questions of truth,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Liberating Power of Symbols
In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays once again his ability to capture the essence of a thinker's work, his feeling for the texture of intellectual traditions...

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Parution : 2014-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Toward a Rational Society
Universities must transmit technically exploitable knowledge. That is, they must meet an industrial society's need for qualified new generations and at the same time be concerned with the expanded reproduction of education itself. In addition, universities must not only...

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Parution : 2014-12-08
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Télécharger le livre :  War Crimes, Atrocity and Justice
What do we know about war crimes and justice?What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes...

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Télécharger le livre :  Love as Passion
In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of ‘love' as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies. He argues that, while family systems remained intact in the transition from...

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Parution : 2014-12-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Irrationality
We talk about irrationality when behaviour defies explanation or prediction, when decisions are driven by emotions or instinct rather than by reflection, when reasoning fails to conform to basic principles of logic and probability, and when beliefs lack coherence or...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-12-01
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Decarceration

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-11-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Inside the Brotherhood
This is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its own members. Drawing on years of participant observation, extensive interviews, previously inaccessible organizational documents, and dozens of memoirs and writings, the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-11-12
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