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“christofer edling”

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  • Violent Extremism

    A Nordic Outlook

    by Amir Rostami, Christofer Edling, Wael Adnan Aiche, Magnus P. Ängsal, Tina Askanius, Susanna Bellander, Daniel Brodén, Tina Wilchen Christensen, Mats Fridlund0, Håvard Haugstvedt1, Sara Jul Jacobsen2, Kathrine Elmose Jørgensen3, Joanna Lindström4, Heidi Maiberg5, Robin Andersson Malmros6, Hernan Mondani7, Line Lerche Mørck8, Milan Obaidi9, Patrik Öhberg0, Sveinung Sandberg1, Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström2, Johanna Sundqvist3, Sébastien Tutenges4, Sofia Ulver5 ...
    Violent Extremism: A Nordic Outlook illuminates the global issue of violent extremism, with a particular focus on Sweden and the Nordic countries. This concise volume leverages empirical research to uncover the mechanisms and dynamics driving violent extremism, setting itself apart in a field often criticized for a lack of data-driven analysis. The contributors employ unique Nordic data to offer ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers

    Sociology through Literature, Philosophy, and Science

    Edited by Christofer R. Edling, Jens Rydgren ...
    In this book, leading sociologists expand the scope of their discipline by revealing the sociological aspects of the works of great philosophers, scientists, and writers.Sociologists have long recognized that sociological insight can be gleaned from creative thinkers outside their formal discipline. Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers: Sociology through Literature, Philosophy, and Science ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

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  • On Human Nature

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Popper

    by Frederic Raphael ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Karl Popper 1902-1994The political history of the twentieth century has been full of savage 'certainties'. A similar idea of history warranted the callous savageries of both Marxism and Fascism. They shared a faith in what Karl Popper called 'Historicism': the belief that the future could be predicted and that man had to align himself with its bloody progress.Totalitarianism, Popper maintained, ... Read more

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  • Comparative Literature

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    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

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  • Why We Believe

    Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times

    by Prof. Alister McGrath ...
    Belief: surely it’s a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with today’s rational, science-led culture?'A timely, often bracing and always highly stimulating book.' Tom Holland, author of Dominion and co-host of The Rest is HistoryIn today’s science-driven, rational world, belief is dismissed as an artefact of a bygone era – something absurd at best, ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Critical Theory

    by Ian Buchanan ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and socio-political critical theory. Entries ... Read more

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  • Dark Deleuze

    by Andrew Culp ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
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  • Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

    by Louis Althusser ...
    No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a "structuralist Marxist," Althusser was as much admired for his independence of ... Read more

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  • The Diversity of Morals

    by Steven Lukes ...
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    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHow does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and ... Read more

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