Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter herrmann”
Skip side bar filters

  • Marx and the Robots

    Networked Production, AI and Human Labour

    Edited by Florian Butollo, Sabine Nuss ...
    Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological developments within capitalist production.It covers a broad range of digital ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Offended Freedom

    The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism

    by Carolin Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey ...
    Translated by Jan-Peter Herrmann ...
    Today, a new kind of freedom fighter has emerged in our midst: liberal and open-minded, these individuals champion liberty and resent the imposition of more and more rules and exhortations that constrain their freedom. They are angry, disgruntled, offended. Why should they have to wear a face mask, get vaccinated or follow new rules on diversity and equality? They should be free to choose. They do ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Populism - distraction of a problem

    Deep roots of today's political concerns

    by Peter Herrmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book questions the mainstream interpretation of the current political shifts as a move to ultra-conservative and even fascist politics, changing the polities of the Western democracies that can be overcome by “reclaiming democracy”. Instead of following this path, the present work analyses these developments as extreme consequence that emerged from the individualist and short-sighted ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Human Rights in a Changing World

    Reflections on Fundamental Challenges

    Edited by Mehmet Okyayuz, Junxiang Mao, Letlhokwa George Mpedi, Peter Herrmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book aims at presenting an updated version of the basic and general human rights debates. While it is frequently suggested that Human Rights are universal and indivisible, it is an undeniable fact that this is far from being true. And if there was ever any justification for talking about an ending to history, that narrative has definitely lost all justification in the light of recent ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis

    Precarity of Society

    by Peter Herrmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Pandemics — it seems that it had been the beginning of a new era, after a first shock wave a new normality commenced trying to, repress the complex challenges while living under a new Sword of Damocles. Origins and consequences of the virus had been frequently issued, but only little attention had been paid to structural problems of societies, making it difficult to cope with the exceptional ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rediscovering Lenin

    Dialectics of Revolution and Metaphysics of Domination

    by Michael Brie ...
    Translated by Loren Balhorn, Jan-Peter Herrmann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis of Lenin's theoretical development between 1914 and 1917, in preparation for his critical decision to dissolve the Constituent Assembly in ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Digitisation and Precarisation

    Redefining Work and Redefining Society

    Edited by Vyacheslav Bobkov, Peter Herrmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Currently it is fashionable to talk about digitisation, robotisation, industry 4.0, but also about the gig economy, the Millenials, precarisation and the like. However, the relevant issues are too often taken in isolation, referring to an extrapolation of overcome structures. The present collection aims on moving further by qualifying some aspects, and also by approaching the topic from distinct ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Sociology, Capitalism, Critique

    by Hartmut Rosa, Stephan Lessenich, Klaus Dörre ...
    Translated by Jan-Peter Herrmann, Loren Balhorn ...
    Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalismFor years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an empirically grounded ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Social Quality Theory

    A New Perspective on Social Development

    Edited by Peter Herrmann, Ka Lin ...
    Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, which assesses societal progress and introduces proposals that are relevant for policy making. ... Read more

    Was $28.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Fred Powell, Stephen McCloskey, Shivaun Quinlivan, Charles O’Mahony, Fiona Donson, Cathal O'Connell, Joe Finnerty, Dessie Donnelly, Ann Marie Gray, Benjamin Mallon, Fiona Dukelow, Birgit Schippers, Daniel Holder, Michal Cenker, Giovanni Farese, Diana Buttu, Peter Herrmann ...
    With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces

    by Sabine Pfeiffer ...
    Translated by Jan-Peter Herrmann ...
    Series series X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
    Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation – it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Knowledge

    Is Knowledge Power?

    by Marian Adolf, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge in itself. How is it produced, where does it reside, and who owns it? Is knowledge always beneficial, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD