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• Author(s): Theodor W. Adorno • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity"Dreams are as black as death." —Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of...

• Author(s): Barry Buzan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe idea that world politics can be understood in terms of a US dominated unipolarity became generally accepted during the 1990s. Following the September 11 attacks, however, ...

• Author(s): John Urry • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityGlobal Complexity is a path-breaking book, which examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can help us to analyse global processes. Urry argues that there are major advanta...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe 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 l...

• Author(s): Bodo Hombach • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityEurope is entering a new political epoch. The centre-left, now in government in many EU countries, has struggled to modernize itself and is now defining the shape of politics...

• Author(s): Editor: Mark Poster • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityJean Baudrillard, alternately provocative and astonishing, is one of the leading theorists of media and culture. Regarded by many as the chief prophet of postmodernism...

• Author(s): Lynne Segal • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis major new book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary culture.

• Author(s): Editor: Peter Burke • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe way in which history is written has changed quite dramatically - so much so that the phrase ?the new history? is now commonly used by historians. But what is the n...

• Author(s): Anthony Giddens • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But w...

• Author(s): James Lull • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityMedia, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of th...

• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityWe live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without kno...

• Author(s): Brian Barry • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityAll major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live. How should public p...

• Author(s): John Keane • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIt 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. In ...

• Author(s): Daniele Hervieu-Leger • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis is a major new account of the nature of religion and its changing role in modern societies, by one of the most original French sociologists writing on religion ...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas | Translated by: Steven Rendall | Introduction: Peter Uwe Hobendahl • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityA Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of their most original and...

• Author(s): Norberto Bobbio • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness a...

• Author(s): Yirmiyahu Yovel | New School for Social Research, New York) • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis brilliant and absorbing study examines the image of Judaism and the Jews in the work of two of the most influential modern...

• Author(s): Editor: Daniele Archibugi | Editor: David Held | Editor: Martin Köhler (Centro de Investigacion para la Paz, Madrid) • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityUnderstanding world politics today means acknowledging that the state ...

• Author(s): Translated by: Peter Burke | Translated by: Claire Dorey | Translated by: Ellen Bianchini • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityPublished in two volumes, this major work provides a history of Italian art from antiquity to the...

• Author(s): Paul Ricoeur • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this new book Paul Ricoeur - one of the greatest contemporary philosophers - offers a personal reflection on his life and on the themes which have preoccupied him over the...

• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its "...

• Author(s): Editor: Kelvin Knight • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityAlasdair MacIntyre is one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time. He opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the teleological argu...

• Author(s): Editor: James Lull | Editor: Stephen Hinerman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityWhen personal desire goes beyond moral boundaries in the lives of public figures, a media scandal may not be far behind. But media today can ...

• Author(s): Daniel Miller • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityA Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned wi...

• Author(s): Catherine Hall • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityWinner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishne...

• Author(s): Gianni Vattimo • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy today. Vattimo argues...

• Author(s): Ivan Reid • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolitySocial class differences and inequalities are alive and flourishing in contemporary Britain. In reviewing a wide range of sources, this book provides easy access to the empirica...

• Author(s): Tim Hayward • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book shows why political theorists must take account of ecological concerns as part of their core enterprise, and how they can do so. It mounts a challenge to the receive...

• Author(s): Editor: Mary Lyndon Shanley | Editor: Uma Narayan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this volume leading feminist theorists re-think the traditional concepts of political theory and expand the range of problems and conc...

• Author(s): Laurence Fontaine • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this, the first sustained account of pedlars and peddling, Laurence Fontaine argues that pedlars and the networks they built up played a crucial role in the birth of ...

• Author(s): Piero Camporesi • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityPiero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinar...

• Author(s): Louis-Jean Calvet • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityNow available in paperback, this is the first biography of Roland Barthes - one of the most important European intellectuals of the postwar years. Calvet provides a live...

• Author(s): Nicole Ward Jouve • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIs creation male, as the Bible seems to suggest? Does creativity always belong to the male element? Is there no female genesis? This exciting book argues against fashion...

• Author(s): Peter Coates • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of human attitudes and human impa...

• Author(s): Michele Barrett • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis new book draws together the work of a leading social theorist who has devoted herself to examining the intersection of cultural studies, social theory, feminism, and ...

• Author(s): Linda Weiss • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIt is widely claimed that as the integration of the world economy advances, national governments are becoming less relevant, losing their powers not only to influence macroeco...

• Author(s): Julia O'Connell Davidson • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityProstitution is still the subject of intense controversy among feminists but theoretical and political analyses are often only loosely grounded in empirical resea...

• Author(s): Nikki Craske • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different ...

• Author(s): Susan J. Hekman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory. The author argues that the work of recent feminist theorists in this area, particularly that of Carol ...

• Author(s): Rosalind Minsky • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityWritten in a readable, accessible style, with plenty of up-to-date examples Psychoanalysis and Culture provides a brilliant introduction to key issues in the area of appli...

• Author(s): Christopher Bryant • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book offers a new analysis of some basic issues in sociology and social theory, arguing that the social sciencs can, and should, play a major practical role in mod...

• Author(s): Linda McDowell • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityFeminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded enormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years, geographic perspectives have become increasingly sign...

• Author(s): Johan Heilbron • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book is a detailed and wide-ranging account of the birth of social theory as a distinctive and modern intellectual genre, providing a brilliant account of the "pre-his...

• Author(s): Editor: Maurizio Passerin D'Entreves | Editor: Seyla Benhabib • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of Jürgen Habermas's "Philosophical Discourse of Moderni...

• Author(s): David Lyon • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.'

• Author(s): Christopher Pierson • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this book the author examines the concept of "the end of socialism" assessing the evidence that underpins this position, analysing market socialism and confronting ...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this book Jürgen Habermas addresses some of the most pressing social and political issues of our time: the consequences of the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern ...

• Author(s): Ralph Miliband • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book presents Ralph Miliband's reflections on the world socialists face after the fall of communism and the fundamental changes in social structure which Western socie...

• Author(s): Norbert Elias | Editor: Michael Schroter • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityNow available in paperback, Mozart is a brilliant study of the great composer's life and creative genius, written by one of the most important s...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityJürgen Habermas is well known for his scholarly writings on the theoretical foundations of the human sciences. The New Conservatism brings to light another side of Haberma...

• Author(s): Eliot Freidson • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today.

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this new collection of recent essays, Habermas takes up and pursues the line of analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. He begins by outlining the s...

• Author(s): Barbara Adam • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityTime is at the forefront of contemporary scholarly inquiry across the natural sciences and the humanities. Yet the social sciences have remained substantially isolated from t...

• Author(s): Arlette Farge • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis important and original book addresses the nature of public opinion, the relation between rulers and ruled, and the role of popular rumours in eighteenth century France....

• Author(s): Jeffrey Weeks • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.

• Author(s): Editor: Susan Mendus | Editor: John Horton • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis is an important full-length study of the work of this controversial thinker by leading political philosophers and social theorists, and inc...

• Author(s): Donna L. Dickenson • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityAlthough many feminist authors have pointed out the ways in which women have been property, they have been less successful in suggesting how women might become the subj...

• Author(s): Andrew Linklater • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolitySovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders. In thi...

• Author(s): David Goldblatt • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental degradation and environmental politics.

• Author(s): David Lyon • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this book David Lyon analyses the various contexts of surveillance activity and offers a balanced account of the influence electronic information systems have on the social ...