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  • Humanity and Uncontrollability

    Reflections on Hartmut Rosa’s Critical Theory

    by Simon Susen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, this book provides an in-depth account of the extent to which we, as humans, are obliged to face up to the uncontrollability of the world. Rosa is widely regarded as one of the most original contemporary European social theorists. Along with the concepts of ‘acceleration’, ‘alienation’, and ‘resonance’, the notion of ‘uncontrollability’ [Unverfügbarkeit] ranks ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences

    by Simon Susen ...
    Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a systematic, comprehensive, and critical account of the legacy of the 'postmodern turn', notably in terms of its continuing relevance in the twenty-first century. ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Sociology in the Twenty-First Century

    Key Trends, Debates, and Challenges

    by Simon Susen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines key trends, debates, and challenges in twenty-first-century sociology. To this end, it focuses on significant issues surrounding the nature of sociology (‘What is sociology?’), the history of sociology (‘How has sociology evolved?’), and the study of sociology (‘How can or should we make sense of sociology?’).These issues have been, and will continue to be, essential to the ... Read more

    $58.49 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

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  • Social Theory

    Twenty Introductory Lectures

    by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl ...
    Translated by Alex Skinner ...
    Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Habermas

    A Critical Introduction

    by William Outhwaite ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the public sphere, through his work on law and the state, to his more recent discussion of science, religion and contemporary Europe. Outhwaite examines all of Habermas's major works and steers a steady course through the many debates to which they have ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Constructivism and International Relations

    Alexander Wendt and his Critics

    Edited by Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander ...
    Series series New International Relations
    This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt.Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are informed by a wide array of contending theories ranging from realism to poststructuralism. The collected ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Social Theory

    Edited by Austin Harrington, Barbara L. Marshall, Hans-Peter Müller ...
    The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Theories of International Relations

    Edited by Siegfried Schieder, Manuela Spindler ...
    This book is a comprehensive guide to theories of International Relations (IR). Given the limitations of a paradigm-based approach, it sheds light on eighteen theories and new theoretical perspectives in IR by examining the work of key reference theorists. The chapters are all written to a common template. The introductory section provides readers with a basic understanding of the theory’s genesis ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Modernity

    Liberty and Discipline

    by Peter Wagner ...
    First Published in 2004. Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the curent condition of modernity. The story-lines from the 'end of the subject' to 'a new individualism', from the 'dissolution of society' to the re-emergence of 'civil society', from the 'end of modernity' to an 'other modernoity' to 'neo-modernization'. This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of a historical ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists

    Edited by John Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline.Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Claude Lévi-Strauss, each entry includes:full cross-referencinga further reading ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Modernity as Experience and Interpretation

    by Peter Wagner ...
    We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis.Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to order life in common; how to ... Read more

    $25.00 USD