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  • Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

    by Patrick Baert, Filipe Carreira da Silva ...
    This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and classic schools of ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities

    The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists

    Edited by Gisèle Sapiro, Marco Santoro, Patrick Baert ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection analyses the reception of a selection of key thinkers, and the dissemination of paradigms, theories and controversies across the social sciences and humanities since 1945. It draws on data collected from textbooks, curricula, interviews, archives, and references in scientific journals, from a broad range of countries and disciplines to provide an international and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Politics of Knowledge.

    Edited by Patrick Baert, Fernando Domínguez Rubio ...
    Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as ‘knowledge societies’, which indicates the extent to which ‘science’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘knowledge production’ have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge.In studying the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Intellectuals

    After 'The Existentialist Moment'

    by Patrick Baert, Simon Susen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals. It presents a critical exchange between two leading contemporary social theorists, Patrick Baert and Simon Susen, advancing debates at the cutting edge of scholarship on the changing role of intellectuals in the increasingly interconnected societies of the twenty-first century. The ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Dark Side of Podemos?

    Carl Schmitt and Contemporary Progressive Populism

    by Josh Booth, Patrick Baert ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    In 2014 a new progressive party, Podemos, emerged on the Spanish political scene. Within just over two years it had become the country’s third-biggest party, winning a slew of seats in parliament and regularly making headline news. While some see Podemos as the saviour of Spanish democracy, others have accused it of corrosive populism. But what few have noticed is that behind its distinctive ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Existentialist Moment

    The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual

    by Patrick Baert ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. How can we explain this remarkable transformation?The Existentialist Moment retraces Sartre�s career ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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    by Guy Debord, Ron. Adams ...
    Debord describes and critiques the way we live. The power in these ideas lies in their ability to question, identify, and name the common assumptions of the present. Developing the concept of The Spectacle, he describes the “gaze” of contemporary society. From its publication just before, and ultimately influencing the May 1968 revolt in Paris and Occupy Wall Street, this book continues to ... Read more

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  • Foreign Policy Decision Making Under The Geisel Government

    by Letícia Pinheiro ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    This thesis seeks to provide an explanation for the contents of three foreign policy decisions implemented under the government of General Ernesto Geisel (1974-1979). It does so by analyzing the decision-making process which led Brazil: 1) to abstain in the Meetings of Consultation of American Foreign Ministers for voting the lifting of sanctions against Cuba; 2) to restore diplomatic relations ... Read more

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  • Past Imperfect

    French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

    by Tony Judt ...
    A "marvelously readable" critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that "consistently entertains and provokes" ( The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes ... Read more

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  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

    by Geo Maher ...
    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

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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 Portuguese Revolution

    State and Class in the Transition to Democracy

    by Ronald H. Chilcote ...
    Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well as representative and popular democracy. Exploring ... Read more

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