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  • Revisiting Marcuse

    Critical Reflections and New Perspectives

    Edited by Amirhosein Khandizaji, Mary Caputi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together some of the most distinguished and influential scholars in philosophy and sociology to explore the continued relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory in the twenty-first century. As one of the most influential thinkers of the Frankfurt School, Marcuse’s work remains indispensable for understanding contemporary social, political, and economic struggles. The essays in ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Thinking

    by Lori Marso, Patricia Moynagh, Emily Zakin, Sonia Kruks, Karen Shelby, Mary Caputi ...
    By exploring the life and work of the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, this book shows how each of us lives within political and social structures that we can--and must--play a part in transforming. It argues that Beauvoir’s careful examination of her own existence can also be understood as a dynamic method for political thinking.As the contributors illustrate, Beauvoir's political ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • David Riesman and Critical Theory

    Autonomy Instead of Emancipation

    by Amirhosein Khandizaji, Mary Caputi ...
    Although David Riesman wrote over half a century ago, his concept of autonomy as presented in The Lonely Crowd (1950) speaks directly to the intellectual and emotional disarrangements of the twenty-first century. The current malaise produced by the excesses of commodity culture, information technology, the hyperreal, and “fake news” militate against our ability to think critically about ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Slow Culture and the American Dream

    A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

    by Mary Caputi ...
    Is the USA hospitable to the slow movement? The land of fast food, get-rich-quick schemes, and 24/7 news feeds? In Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, Mary Caputi argues that the slow movement has much to teach the United States at this moment in time. Although slow philosophy is in many ways opposite to the prevalent American Dream, the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Feminism and Power

    The Need for Critical Theory

    by Mary Caputi ...
    Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter manuscript which offers an important critique of “power feminism.” The latter, having produced such spinoffs as “grrrl power,” “choice,” “babe,” “lipstick,” and “stiletto” feminisms, encourages women to be strong, self-sufficient, feisty, and independent. While I have no argument with much of that tough-minded ideal, I ask whether ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Sociology Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Marcus Weeks, DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sociology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Problem with Work

    Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

    by Kathi Weeks ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of unpaid work as a valued form of labor, even they have tended to accept work as a naturalized or ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Anthropology and Social Theory

    Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • A Darwinian Left

    Politics, Evolution and Cooperation

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Darwinism Today series
    In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.Singer explains why the left originally rejected Darwinian thought and why these reasons are no ... Read more

    $13.99 USD