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Social & political philosophy

Paperback. Until recently, continental philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745653112
ISBN
9780745653112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.73

Paperback. * Antonio Negri is an internationally famous political thinker, extremely well-known for his hugely influential work Empire * This new book takes the form of a series of letters, written from a prison cell in Italy between October 1981 and April 1982, to a young friend in France. Translator(s): Emory, Ed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745655659
ISBN
9780745655659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.23

Paperback. This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663814
ISBN
9780745663814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.46

Hardcover. The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 30. Weight in Grams: 724.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745669427
ISBN
9780745669427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.01

Paperback.

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. Wehave to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Westernworld. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745669779
ISBN
9780745669779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.20

Hardcover. This book stands as a testimony to Bauman's belief in the enduring relevance of sociology. But it is also a call to us all to start questioning the world in which we live and to transform ourselves from being the victims of circumstance into the makers of our own history. For that, at the end of the day, is the use of sociology. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745671246
ISBN
9780745671246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.12

Paperback. What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745671550
ISBN
9780745671550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.66

Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745680620
ISBN
9780745680620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.01

Hardcover. The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can only be properly understood if it is grasped as the expression of a culture of freedom that encompasses an entire form of life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745682129
ISBN
9780745682129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.45

Paperback. Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the Red Years at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was already taking his distance from it. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745682174
ISBN
9780745682174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.12

Paperback.

From Gandhi?s salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social justice have long played an important transformative role in local, national and global politics. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745682679
ISBN
9780745682679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.66

Hardcover.

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S. Series: Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745684833
ISBN
9780745684833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.32

Hardcover. White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745685441
ISBN
9780745685441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. * Alain Badiou is probably the most widely read and influential philosopher in France today. Alain Finkielkraut is also a well-known public intellectual in France * Both have attracted controversy in the past and they hold strongly contrasting political views. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745685700
ISBN
9780745685700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.19

Hardcover. In a well-known text called The Communist Hypothesis , first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a systemic alternative to capitalism. Translator(s): Spitzer, Susan. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745688350
ISBN
9780745688350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.61

Paperback.

In a well-known text called The Communist Hypothesis , first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a systemic alternative to capitalism. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 125 x 190 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745688367
ISBN
9780745688367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.80

Hardcover. Written in the early stages of the Cold War by one of the most controversial political and legal thinkers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt's two short dialogues on power and space bring together several dimensions of his work in new ways. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745688688
ISBN
9780745688688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.12

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745688695
ISBN
9780745688695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.08

Hardcover. 'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 49. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745689814
ISBN
9780745689814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Paperback. The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745691008
ISBN
9780745691008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.12

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