An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealthMuch of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo.
A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern social order.
'Fools or Charlatans' The Reading of Domesday Book is a statistical analysis of Domesday Book and an exposure of a hoax that appears to have poisoned higher education for over a century.
"e;Labour's Thinkers"e; seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s.
An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealthMuch of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo.
This "e;succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays [presents] sober and unflinching analysis"e; of Gaza's humanitarian crisis (Publishers Weekly).
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
The notion of immigrant integration is used everywhere by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding unity from diversity after large-scale immigration.
"e;Chomsky's gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate"e; (Foreword Reviews).
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.
Longtime political analyst and commentator Tod Lindberg goes beyond punditry to address how Jesus's words and teachings—once a radical set of ideas—have come to define our concept of government and our vision for society.
This book explores citizens' perceptions and experiences of security threats in contemporary Britain, based on twenty focus groups and a large sample survey conducted between April and September 2012.
In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness.
The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior to combat the virus and preserve life.
The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.
Jeremy Bentham philosopher, theorist of law and of the art of government was among the most influential figures of the early nineteenth century, and the approach he pioneered utilitarianism remains central to the modern world.
What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly na ve questions about love?
Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time.
For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world stage from terrorism and armed conflict to the threat of environmental catastrophe.
In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.
It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility.
