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The internet is not what you think it is
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not Wha...
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The machiavellian moment
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and ot...
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The new left, national identity, and the break-up of britain
Though often seen as marginal, Matthews' engaging analysis shows that national questions were considered crucial by the British New Left.
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The origins of collective decision making
With invaluable insight and poignant analysis, Blunden traces the hidden origins of three paradigms of decision-making: Counsel, Majority, and Consensus.
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The philosophy of living experience
This is the best introduction to the thought of Bogdanov, a Russian polymath who was a co-founder of the Bolshevik-Party.
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The political economy of the spectacle and postmodern caste
Asimakopoulos cuts through Capitalism's ideological veil to reveal the caste system hiding beneath the spectacle of 21st century society.
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The politics of transindividuality
In this stimulating and wide-ranging study, Jason Read uses the concept of transindividuality to re-examine social relation sand subjectivity.
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The practical essence of man
This book depicts in detail the rise and fall of a remarkable phenomenon in Soviet Marxism: The Activity Approach.’
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The quotable machiavelli
A collection of insightful and revealing quotations on a wide range of subjects from the father of modern politicsNiccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the father of modern political thought, but he is also one of the greatest writers of the Renaissance and his wisdom and style extend far beyond pol...
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The return of work in critical theory
This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts in philosophy, social theory, and clinical psychology, it brings together empirical research with incisive analysis of work’s political stakes to present a diagnosis of the pathologie...
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The revolution we expected
The Revolution We Expected presents a call for individual and societal transformation in order to rebuild and humanize our institutions and our communities to realize a post-patriarchal world and elevated consciousness as a global community.In his last work as an author, celebrated doctor and psy...
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The science of cookery and the art of eating well
The Science of Cookery and the Art of Eating Well is a philosophical and historical reflection on food and dining in human culture. It includes discussions of the nature of the first meals as found in Greek literature and the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico, the Roman cookbook of Apici...
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The seven deadly sins 3.0
The authors open a debate about ethics, science, scepticism, and hypocrisy.
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The social philosophers
Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality emerge from humankind’s search for communityIn this provocative, classic, absorbing work of social and intellectual history, Robert Nisbet advances the idea that Western social philosophy arose during the disintegration of the ...
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The sociogony
Drawing on Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, Mark Worrell re-examines the social ontology of "social facts' in the wake of the shift from bourgeois liberalism to global neoliberalism.
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The solutionary way
Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge divides, understand and address seemingly intractable challenges, and create positive change.
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The state and your hard-earned money
How fiscal and economic policy choices reflect moral points of viewHow much of your hard-earned money is it fair for the state to tax? What public services should the state finance with that money? Surveys show that people care more about fairness than efficiency in fiscal and economic matters, a...
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The tyranny of the ideal
In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just...
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The wage slave's glossary
A second volume of anti-economic etymological revaluation, playfully continuing the authors' search for a new mode of thinking about work.
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The web of meaning
Integrating modern science with traditional wisdom, The Web of Meaning investigates humanity's age-old questions—Who am I? Why am I? How should I live?—from a fresh perspective, laying down the foundation for a new worldview of interconnectedness that could foster sustainable flourishing on a ...
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The well-rounded life
An engaging and enlightening book about why having many different pursuits can vastly improve our well-beingIt’s good to be well-rounded. When you do a lot of different things, when you work on expanding your horizons, when you dive into the fascinating diversity of the world around you, your lif...
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Theorizing justice in contemporary arabo-islamic philosophy
Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach to decenter Western notions of normativity and challenge stereotypes about the Arab-Islamic.
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Theory in action
An invaluable guide for scholars and researchers looking to develop and practically apply critical social theory
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Time in marx
An original reading of the logic of all three volumes of Capital which takes time as its starting point.
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Time, capitalism, and alienation
Martineau challenges us to see Time’ not as an objective reality, but as something structured by power and property relations.
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Understanding the rights of nature
This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and discusses key cases in which this has happened, ranging from constitutional rights of nature in Ecuador to rights for rivers in New Zealand, Colombia, and India. Mihnea Tanasescu offers clear answers to the thorny questions that the int...
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Unravelling encounters
This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement...
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Violence and civility
Revealing the explicit relationships among globalization, capitalism, and barbarism to rid our world of violence once and for all.
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We are not born submissive
A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers—especially Simone de Beauvoir—to reveal the complexities of women’s reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be indep...
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Webfare
Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society.
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What is fear?
Agamben’s profound and disquieting essay dismantles the logic that turns emergencies into permanent rule, reason into impotence, and safety into domination.
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What is progress
Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten. Yet, the idea of progress is rooted in a...
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What kind of creatures are we?
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflectio...
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What to expect when you're dead
An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from themA lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions—Mesopotamian, ...
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What world is this?
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new s...
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When bad thinking happens to good people
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today’s epidemic of irrationalityThere is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. They believe that vaccinations cause autism. They reject the scientific consen...
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When things get personal
How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personallyWe’re all imperfect. Good relationships require seeing each other through these imperfections—distinguishing what is signal, and what is noise. But sometimes we mistake noise for signal—or worse, signal for noise. And even when we get things ...
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Who's afraid of academic freedom?
Celebrated scholars, including Joan Scott, Noam Chomsky, Stanley Fish, Judith Butler, Jon Elster, Akeel Bilgrami, and Jonathan R. Cole, examine contemporary pressures on the free pursuit of knowledge.
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Why i am a hindu
A revelatory and original contribution to our understanding of the role of religion in society and politics.
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Why we are restless
A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations ...
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Wonderstruck
A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain worldWonder and awe lie at the heart of life’s most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of ourselves and everything around us, and how they enable u...
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You and your profile
You and Your Profile blends social theory, philosophy, and cultural critique to unfold an exploration of the way we have come to experience the world. A deft and wide-ranging consideration of our era’s identity crisis, this book provides vital clues on how to stay sane in a time of proliferating ...
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Young foucault
Recently discovered manuscripts from the mid-1950s, when Michel Foucault was a lecturer at the University of Lille, testify to the significance of the philosopher’s early work. Elisabetta Basso offers a groundbreaking and in-depth analysis of Foucault’s Lille manuscripts that sheds new light on t...
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