In Why Information Grows, rising star C sar Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economicsWhile economists often turn to measures like GDP or per-capita income, C sar Hidalgo turns to information theory to explain the success or failure of a country's economic performance.
A comienzos de la decada de 1970, un grupo de intelectuales colombianos liderados por el innovador sociologo Orlando Fals Borda creo un colectivo dedicado a la investigacion-activista, llamado La Rosca de Investigacion y Accion Social.
El eje central de la discusión en esta compilación es la discusión de la conceptualización diferenciación-individuación-sociedad en los 4 clásicos más representativos de la teoría sociológica: Marx, Weber, Simmel y Durkheim, estableciendo todo un campo y una agenda de investigación contemporánea.
Spätestens seitdem ein faschistisch agierendes politisches System einen Krieg mittels »Entnazifizierung« rechtfertigt, ist klar: Verkehrungen ins Gegenteil sind eine allgegenwärtige Machttechnik.
Axel Honneth reconstruye en su último libro la idea de "reconocimiento" a partir de los diversos significados que, desde los albores de la modernidad, ha adoptado esta noción en Europa.
Bautizado el " Rousseau del siglo XIX ", Pierre Leroux (1797-1871) inventó la palabra "socialismo" y fue fuente de inspiración para un vasto conjunto de escritores, entre quienes se cuentan a Proudhon, Blanqui, Baudelaire, Heine, Renan, Durkheim y Marx, quien en 1843 no dudó en calificarlo de "genial".
Michel Maffesoli: un sociólogo posmoderno busca un acercamiento a la obra de este autor francés pretendiendo mostrar partes esenciales de su pensamiento sobre la posmodernidad.
The story of the sexual revolution that brought Freud's couch to the explosion of the 60s, and the left-field pioneer Wilhelm Reich who made it all happen.
**Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize**Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation.
This study of Marx serves not only as an excellent introduction to that most influential of "e;worldly philosophers"e; but is also a significant resume of the central issues of Bloch's own profound and wide-ranging thought.
In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the "e;War on Terror.
These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and 'instrumental reason' and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the individual.
In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.
"e;Latinx"e; (pronounced "e;La-teen-ex"e;) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, and the poorest but fastest-growing American group, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states.
Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology, 'Connected' is an innovative and fascinating exploration of how social networks operate.
Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.
For the quality of its research and the clarity of its synthesis, The Rise of Respectable Society will gain a reputation as an outstanding reinterpretation of the Victorian period.
The companion to a series of lectures given by Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in which she addresses some of the most important questions facing us today.
En un mundo de alta diferenciación sistémica, cultural e individual, laspretensiones de unidad, armonía o cohesión pueden estar tan justificadascomo siempre, pero, como es de esperar, resultan insuficientes paracomprender las paradojas, contradicciones y autoinmunidades inmanentesde su constitución.
Los ensayos sobre la dicha del arte, que aquí se ofrecen por primera vez en castellano, constituyen una parte sustantiva de la obra del sociólogo y filósofo berlinés, quien reflexiona sobre las individualidades "cualitativas" de los grandes artistas (de Miguel Ángel a Rodin; de Leonardo de Vinci al impresionismo y expresionismo; de Dante y Goethe a Stefan George), así como sobre la tarea de un filosofar que vuelve a los objetos concretos del arte y sus públicos.
El 18 de octubre 2019 se detonó en Chile un conjunto de eventos que en pocas semanas cuestionaron, en profundidad, muchas de nuestras certidumbres colectivas.
Die globale Infrastruktur des pausenlosen Einkaufens, Arbeitens und Kommunizierens 24 Stunden am Tag und an sieben Tagen der Woche hält mittlerweile bereits die gesamte Menschheit wach.
'A very important book about one of the last social taboos - with fascinating implications for us all' Helena Kennedy, QCA groundbreaking book in which Dorothy Rowe brings her insight and wisdom to the fascinating subject of money and its place in our lives.
*; Details the magical war that took place behind the scenes of the 2016 election *; Examines in detail the failed magical actions of Trump's opponents, with insights on political magic from Dion Fortune's war letters *; Reveals the influence of a number of occult forces from Julius Evola to chaos magick to show how the political and magical landscape of American society has permanently changed since the 2016 election Magic and politics seem like unlikely bedfellows, but in The King in Orange, author John Michael Greer goes beyond superficial memes and extreme partisanship to reveal the unmentionable realities that spawned the unexpected presidential victory of an elderly real-estate mogul turned reality-TV star and which continue to drive the deepening divide that is now the defining characteristic of American society.
