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• Author(s): Alenka Zupančič • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: General Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our...

• Author(s): Dany-Robert Dufour • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralAfter the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: th...

• Author(s): Christina Howells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is underst...

• Author(s): Jacques Lacan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisWhen I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a sm...

• Author(s): Jacques Lacan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisWhat does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is no...

• Author(s): Seyla Benhabib • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Human RightsThe international order of the post-WW II period is in disarray. The sounds of war can be heard all around...

• Author(s): Richard Lachmann • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralSociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emerge...

• Author(s): Sarah Banet-Weiser • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault...

• Author(s): Daniel Davies • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Judaism - GeneralThe most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions ...

• Author(s): Kathryn Strother Ratcliff | Linda Axtell-Thompson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology, • BISAC: Public HealthThe new edition of this popular introduction takes seriously ...

• Author(s): Tzvetan Todorov • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: EssaysThis illuminating analysis by one of the world's leading intellectuals addresses fundamental questions about the new world disorder exemplifie...

• Author(s): Roberto Esposito • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralAfter two years of global pandemic, it is no surprise that immunization is now at the center of our experience. Fro...

• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - General'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored o...

• Author(s): Rod Thornton • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)In recent years, the nature of conflict has changed. Through asymmetric warfare radical groups and weak state ac...

• Author(s): Stacey Keltner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralJulia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials ...

• Author(s): You Ji • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: World - AsianChina?s military transformation is one of the major geo-strategic developments of the 21st Century. Billions of do...

• Author(s): Alex Callinicos • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GlobalizationThe world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The exceptional is becoming normal. The last such crisis,...

• Author(s): Markus Gabriel • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: EpistemologyAt the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with...

• Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhat is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this dist...

• Author(s): Vladimir Gel'man • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeopoliticsIn February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine, aimed at re-establishing Russi...

• Author(s): Peter Sloterdijk • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Free Will & DeterminismIn this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day....

• Author(s): Alan Dowty • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GlobalizationWhat explains the peculiar intensity and evident intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Of all th...

• Author(s): Ami Pedahzur • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: TerrorismSuicide terrorism in its modern form made its first appearance in Lebanon in the early 1980s. Over the last quarter century, terrorist attacks...

• Author(s): Christopher Dandeker • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAs a result of the writings of Foucault, surveillance has come to be seen as a phenomenon of major importance in modern soci...

• Author(s): Simon Copland • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Men's StudiesInspired by leaders such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, the online manosphere has exploded in recent yea...

• Author(s): Jenny Shaw • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWe spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take...

• Author(s): Robert R. Geyer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyWith the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and futu...

• Author(s): Roger Griffin • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeneralThe word 'fascism' sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the politi...

• Author(s): Christoph Bluth • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralKorea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted ...

• Author(s): Kevin Mellet • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralMarketing involves a wide range of professions, activities and tools and it plays an increasingly important rol...

• Author(s): Ross Carroll • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: PoliticalFew thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political...

• Author(s): Charles Taliaferro • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: ReligiousAn important part of philosophy is concerned with religious questions. What is the meaning of life, and how might religious faith or dou...

• Author(s): Jean K. Chalaby • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFew trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes o...

• Author(s): Byung-Chul Han • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralOur societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions - even ...

• Author(s): Colin Crouch • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralGlobalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘gl...

• Author(s): Mark Poster • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. The fle...