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    Politics, Cultures, Tensions

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This book offers a new perspective on the issue of modernity through a series of interconnected essays. Drawing centrally on the works of Castoriadis, Luhmann, Heller and Lefort, and in critical discussion with Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, Adorno, Habermas and Taylor, the author argues that modernity is not only a unique historical creation but also a multiple one.With a focus on five broad themes - ... Read more

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  • Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, Freedom

    by John Rundell ...
    Series series Morality, Society and Culture
    In a new reading of Immanuel Kant’s work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these – rather than the problem of reason – as the two central pivoting orientations of his work. Such an approach allows a more complex understanding of his critical-philosophical program to emerge, which includes his accounts of reason, politics and freedom as well as ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics and Modernity

    Essays by Agnes Heller

    Edited by John Rundell ...
    Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods. Heller's recent work on aesthetics explores the complex ... Read more

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  • Critical Theories and the Budapest School

    Politics, Culture, Modernity

    Edited by John Rundell, Jonathan Pickle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács, this book sheds new light on the unique and nuanced critiques of modernity offered by this school, informed as its members’ insights have been by first ... Read more

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  • Blurred Boundaries

    Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship

    Edited by Rainer Bauböck, John Rundell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this volume examines new forms of cultural diversity which result from migration and globalization. Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis of national cultures – either a single one, or a dominant one, or a federation of several ones. However, political and economic developments have upset traditional patterns and have blurred established ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Imagination

    Pulling together a collection of richly informative essays Rethinking Imagination addresses competing sets of ideas, oscillating between the modern and post-modern, creativity and sublimity, progress and apocalypse, democracy and redemption Enlightenment and Romanticism and reason and imagination.Aiming to thematise these debates from the perspective of the imagination, Rethinking Imagination ... Read more

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  • Giving an Account of Oneself

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  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences

    Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

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    Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and issues, ... Read more

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