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  • Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field

    Edited by Gisela Febel, Kerstin Knopf, Martin Nonhoff ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    “Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    by Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Dictionary of Critical Theory

    by Ian Buchanan ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and socio-political critical theory. Entries ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Theory of Society, Volume 2

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

    Edited by Gary Gutting ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Theory of Society, Volume 1

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • A Companion to Translation Studies

    by Piotr KUHIWCZAK and Karin Littau ...
    A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Foucault Now

    Edited by James Faubion ...
    Series series Theory Now
    Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed scholars, ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Anthropos Today

    Reflections on Modern Equipment

    by Paul Rabinow ...
    Series series In-Formation
    The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the "politics and poetics" of anthropology. Surprisingly little attention, however, has been given to the simple insight that ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Derrida's Legacies

    Literature and Philosophy

    Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone ...
    This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most important intellectual presences of our time.Derrida’s thought reached into nearly every corner of contemporary intellectual culture and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

    Edited by Carmen Millán, Francesca Bartrina ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies.Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including:the current status of the field and its interdisciplinary naturethe problematic definition of the object of studythe ... Read more

    $89.99 USD