Télécharger le livre :  Critical Humanism
We live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the end of humanity. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests that such claims may be premature; instead, what we need is a new transformative...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  China and Africa
China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its striking ascendancy in the continent is commonly thought to have been primarily driven by economic interests, especially resources like oil. This book argues instead that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-25
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Tumblr
Launched in 2007, tumblr became a safe haven for LGBT youth, social justice movements, and a counseling station for mental health issues. For a decade, this micro-blogging platform had more users than either Twitter or Snapchat, but it remained an obscure subculture for...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-23
Collection : Digital Media and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Social Movements
How does gender influence social movements?How do social movements deal with gender? In Gender and Social Movements, Jo Reger takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which people organize around gender issues and how gender shapes social movements. Here gender is more...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-23
Collection : Social Movements ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Sociological Theory for Digital Society
The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-23
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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 :  What is Metaphysics?
If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-20
Collection : What is Philosophy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Instituting Thought
This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis.  Two approaches have been particularly...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  World Politics since 1989
1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides...

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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-19
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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 :  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 :  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 :  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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