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  • Demodernization

    A Future in the Past

    by Yakov Rabkin, Mikhail Minakov, Fabian Zuk, Philippe Genequand, Francisco Rivera, Orit Bashkin, Detlev Quintern, Hitoshi Suzuki, Ilan Pappé0, Guy Lanoue1, Richard Foltz2, Marc Jeandesboz3, Olivier Bauer4, Jo-Ansie van Wyk5, Meir Amor6, Jean-Luc Gautero7, Marc Goetzmann8, Bertrand Cochard9 ...
    Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants—these images became common at the turn of the 21st century in many once modern “civilized” countries. In quite a few of them, long-time neighbours came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered differences of religion, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Spaces of Law and Custom

    Edited by Edoardo Frezet, Marc Goetzmann, Luke Mason ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.Normativity develops within these contexts, while also shaping them. This complex relationship exists within all physical places ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series Book 41 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture
    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory.This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection ... Read more

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  • Gender

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male and female in both industrial society and its antecedents in order to recover a lost 'art of living'. 'While under any reign of gender women might be ... Read more

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  • Critique of Black Reason

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Translated by Laurent Dubois ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

    by Vy Mudimbe ...
    "... groundbreaking... clear, straightforward, and economical.... seminal... " ―American Anthropologist "This is a challenging book... a remarkable contribution to African intellectual history." ―International Journal of African Historical Studies "Mudimbe’s description of the struggles over Africa’s self-invention are vivid and rewarding. From Blyden to Sartre, Temples to Senghor, Mudimbe ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • In My Father's House

    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Counter-History of the Present

    Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Democratic Legitimacy

    Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity

    by Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Words of the World

    The Global Language System

    by Abram De Swaan ...
    This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society.The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other. And yet these groups constitute one coherent world language system, connected by multilingual speakers in a surprisingly powerful way. The chances of ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Bourdieu in the City

    Challenging Urban Theory

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution ... Read more

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