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  • Commodified Bodies

    Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade

    by Oliver Decker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by the proponents for a free market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still linked ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism

    Challenges for Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Johannes Kiess, Oliver Decker, Elmar Brähler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    This book discusses right-wing extremism by analysing Germanophone research on this topic for the first time in English, including unique survey data from Germany and Austria. Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country cases are compared, the authors analyse theoretical and methodological issues in relation to the question of right-wing extremism. In Anglo ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Right-Wing Extremism within German Society

    Escape into Authoritarianism

    Edited by Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    The Dynamics of Right-Wing Extremism within German Society explores the prevalence of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany.The book provides a thorough psychosocial and sociological theory of general authoritarian dynamics to explain broader societal attitudes, particularly focusing on right-wing extremism. It provides a uniquely long-term perspective on the different dimensions of right-wing ... Read more

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  • World at Risk

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Resentment's Virtue

    Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive

    by Thomas Brudholm ...
    Series series Politics History & Social Chan
    Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a pathology. Resentment is viewed as a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Idea of Socialism

    Towards a Renewal

    by Axel Honneth ...
    The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life beyond capitalism. How can we explain the rapid decline of this once powerful idea? And what must we do to renew it ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Nazism as Fascism

    Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich.Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism as Fascism analyses the historiography of the Third Reich and its main interpretive approaches. Themes ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic

    Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification

    Edited by Eric Langenbacher, Jeffrey Anderson ...
    The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance of the country for theory and concept–building in many disciplines, an in-depth examination of the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • After the Nazi Racial State

    Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history."---Frank Biess, University of California, San DiegoWhat happened to "race," race ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Habermas

    A Biography

    by Stefan Müller-Doohm ...
    ‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only the world’s most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.’ Now, after many years of intensive research and in-depth conversations with contemporaries, colleagues and Habermas himself, Stefan Müller-Doohm presents the first comprehensive ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • West Germany and the Global Sixties

    The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978

    by Timothy Scott Brown ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Society of Fear

    Translated by Jessica Spengler ...
    by Heinz Bude ...
    From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects in jeopardy. We are overwhelmed by a sense of having been catapulted into a world to which we no longer belong.Tracing this ... Read more

    $18.00 USD