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When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings...

a A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him.a This was how Jean--Paul Sartre characterized himself at the end of his autobiographical study, Words. And...

We are living through a period of dramatic political change Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia...

In this post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride, philosopher Srecko Horvat invites us to explore the Apocalypse in terms of 'revelation' (rather than as the 'end' itself). He argues...

The Islamic State & the Future Terrorist Diaspora In 2014, the declaration of the Islamic State caliphate was hailed as a major victory żeby the global jihadist movement. But it was...

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly...

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can...

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom...

Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election. Hamas: the Islamic Resistance Movement now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East.§How did...

No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically...

The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked aby the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of...

Kittler and the Media offers students of media theory an introduction to Kittler's basic ideas. The book provides succinct summaries of Kittler's early discourse-analytical work inspired...

For more than a century, the United States has been the world's economic powerhouse. Now analysts predict that China will soon take its place.

Contribution to the current debates on globalization, which attempts to show that there is far more to globalization than is generally acknowledged. Of interest to students of sociology, human...

In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the Tiber estuary into a power that controlled the...

An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge: Second Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal...

Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self--evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent...

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the...

Europe's social model - its system of welfare and social protection - is regarded aby many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities...

Long regarded as an empty and inhospitable environment, the deep ocean is rapidly emerging as an ecological hot spot with a remarkable diversity of biological life. Yet, the world's oceans are...

Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global...

This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou's thought. Responding to Tarby's questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four...

Young Africa on its way to the Old Continent From the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mass migration is...

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich?Mark Koyama...