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  • The World We Have Created

    Climate, Democracy and Knowledge

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Series series A New Order of Social Things
    Addressing the complex interplay between climate change, democratic governance, and scientific knowledge in the Anthropocene era, this book focuses on how political systems respond to the global ecological crisis and to what extent they are structurally capable of doing so.The World We Have Created: Climate, Democracy and Knowledge details how the de-democratization of ecological decision-making ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Society and Knowledge in a Turbulent Era

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Series series In a Turbulent Era series
    Society and Knowledge in a Turbulent Era explores the pivotal role of knowledge in contemporary society. Nico Stehr emphasizes its importance in social theory, economic systems and global challenges, particularly in the context of the knowledge economy and knowledge capitalism.Adopting a diagnostic theoretical approach to analyze rapidly changing societal conditions, Stehr argues that knowledge is ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A World Made of Knowledge

    Pathways into the Knowledge Society

    by Nico Stehr, Alexander Ruser ...
    More than three decades after Gernot Böhme and Nico Stehr began to explore modern 'knowledge societies', the concept has transformed sociological inquiry into the dynamics of contemporary society. But even a quick internet search shows that the term is not only limited to academic circles. Moreover, international bodies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Knowledge Capitalism

    by Nico Stehr ...
    In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era. It is not only because of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that we are living in a new epoch; it is the idea that modern societies increasingly constitute comprehensive knowledge societies under intensive capitalism, whereby the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Governance of Knowledge

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico Stehr predicts that such concerns will create a new political field, namely, knowledge policy, which will entail regulating dissemination of the anticipated results of rapidly increasing knowledge. The ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Knowledge Politics

    Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology

    by Nico Stehr ...
    This book argues that new technologies and society's response to them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge politics." Nico Stehr describes Western society's response to a host of new technologies developed only since the 1970s, including genetic experiments, test-tube human conception, recombinant DNA, and embryonic stem cells; genetically engineered foods; neurogenetics and ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Science in Society

    Climate Change and Climate Policies

    by Nico Stehr, Hans von Storch ...
    Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr, the authors of this anthology, reflect on the popular and scientific perception and construction of the phenomenon of climate, climate change, climate policy and the impact of climate on society. In the early 1990s, the authors encountered notable resistance to the idea of climate change, especially as they wrote about the urgent need for societal adaptation. ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Knowledge and Democracy

    A 21st Century Perspective

    by Nico Stehr ...
    The relationship of knowledge and liberties in modern societies presents a multitude of fascinating issues that deserve to be explored more systematically. The production of knowledge is dynamic, and the conditions and practice of freedom is undergoing transformation. These changes ensure that the linkages between liberty and knowledge are always subject to changes. In the past, the connection ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Biotechnology

    Between Commerce and Civil Society

    by Nico Stehr ...
    "While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full range of biotechnology's implications for social science and for society at large." -Professor Volker MejaNew scientific knowledge is no longer merely the key to unlocking the secrets of nature and society ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Information, Power, and Democracy

    Liberty is a Daughter of Knowledge

    by Nico Stehr ...
    The link between liberty and knowledge is neither static nor simple. Until recently the mutual support between knowledge, science, democracy and emancipation was presupposed. Recently, however, the close relationship between democracy and knowledge has been viewed with skepticism. The growing societal reliance on specialized knowledge often appears to actually undermine democracy. Is it that we do ... Read more

    $130.39 USD

  • Money

    A Theory of Modern Society

    by Nico Stehr, Dustin Voss ...
    Since the publication of Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern society. Money is also a moral and political category. It communicates prices and thus embodies innumerable evaluations and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Moral Markets

    How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Nothing affects modern society more than the decisions made in the marketplace, especially (but not only) the judgments of consumers. Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern societies with the term "moral markets" signals a further development in the social evolution of markets. Market theories still widely in use today emerged in a society that no longer exists. Consumers were hardly in ... Read more

    $94.99 USD