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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

    $59.99 USD

  • 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

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

    $48.99 USD

  • Imaginaries of Modernity

    Politics, Cultures, Tensions

    by John Rundell ...
    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

    $59.99 USD

  • 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

    $46.99 USD

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  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    What is Literary Theory? What is the relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be impenetrable. It offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

    Thinkers of the New Left

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. P. Thompson, Ronald ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • The Location of Culture

    by Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Eric Bronner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Justice in a Changing World

    by Cecile Fabre ...
    Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities? Should rich countries open their borders to economic immigrants or transfer resources to poor countries? When framing and implementing economic and environmental policies, should current generations take into account the interests of future generations? If our political community committed a wrong against another group a ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Philosophy in the Modern World

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have ... Read more

    $18.09 USD