Télécharger le livre :  Progress
The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing...

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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of the Social Sciences
In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places key writers in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Foucault and Neoliberalism
Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If...

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Télécharger le livre :  The State
Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations. In this book, distinguished state theorist Bob...

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Parution : 2015-12-29
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Télécharger le livre :  What is the History of Knowledge?
What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual...

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Parution : 2015-12-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Paparazzi
Paparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today’s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption....

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Parution : 2015-12-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Sloterdijk
This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Sloterdijk, in the tradition of Nietzsche and Heine, is an iconoclast who uses humour and biting critique to challenge many...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-12-18
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Presumed Intimacy: Parasocial Interaction in Media, Society and Celebrity Culture
‘Presumed intimacy’ refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the impact of relationships of ‘presumed intimacy’, where audiences form strong identifications with mediated...

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Parution : 2015-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Lacan on Love
Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Deliriously mad excitement turns...

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Parution : 2015-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy
This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between ?analytic? and ?continental? philosophical traditions....

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Parution : 2015-12-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Global Rise of China
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world’s core economic powerhouses. Exactly how did this Chinese...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-12-08
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Postanarchism
What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order, Saul Newman argues that anarchism - or as he calls it postanarchism -...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Scramble for the Poles
In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice. But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Ego
Ego
Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies. During the Cold War a theoretical model of man was developed by economists and the military, an egotistical being interested only in his own benefit and in duping his...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Cognitive Science
In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been hugely influenced by its development. This dynamic book explores the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans
Long regarded as an empty and inhospitable environment, the deep ocean is rapidly emerging as an ecological hot spot with a remarkable diversity of biological life. Yet, the world?s oceans are currently on a dangerous trajectory of decline, threatened by acidification,...

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Parution : 2015-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Environmental History?
What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Fractured Identities
The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times.The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Polar Regions
The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-20
Collection : Environmental History ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  TTIP
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-20
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