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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert troschitz”
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  • Growing Old in a Better World

    Age and Ageing in the Utopian Imagination

    by Robert Troschitz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    As utopias question social ills and express human wants and unfulfilled dreams, they offer insights into the problems, desires and ideals of a certain time. This book uses this lens to examine cultural representations of ageing and old age in utopian writings from the Renaissance till today.The individual chapters offer detailed analyses and interpretations of numerous utopias from Thomas More’s ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Higher Education and the Student

    From welfare state to neoliberalism

    by Robert Troschitz ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system over the last decades. Universities have increasingly been required to act like businesses, and students are frequently referred to as customers nowadays. Higher Education and the Student investigates precisely this relation between the changing ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    by Wai-chew Sim ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s literary career, and an introduction to his novels, plays and short storiesan accessible overview ... Read more

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  • Utopianism for a Dying Planet

    Life after Consumerism

    by Gregory Claeys ...
    How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crisesIn the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature

    Edited by Gregory Claeys ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty ... Read more

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  • The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

    by Laurence Davis, Tony Burns, Claire Curtis, Winter Elliot, Chris Ferns, Everett Hamner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avery Plaw, Andrew Reynolds0, Ellen Rigsby1, Jennifer Rodgers2, Dan Sabia3, Bülent Somay4, Douglas Spencer5, Simon Stow6, Mark Tunick7 ...
    The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman ... Read more

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  • Utopia

    by Merlin Coverley ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society—from Plato to H. G. Wells, from Cloudcuckooland to Shangri-La. The utopian impulse has generated a vast body of work, encompassing philosophy and political theory, classical literature, and science fiction; yet these utopian dreams have often turned to nightmare, as utopia gives way to its dark ... Read more

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  • Doctor Who and Race

    by Lindy Orthia ...
    Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in the world and is regularly watched by millions of people across the globe. While its scores of fans adore the show with cult-like devotion, the fan-contributors to this book argue that there is an uncharted dimension to Doctor Who. Bringing together diverse perspectives on race and its representation in Doctor Who, this ... Read more

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  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

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  • Radical Happiness

    Moments of Collective Joy

    by Lynne Segal ...
    A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our livesIn an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant.Segal believes we have lost ... Read more

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  • Mindless

    The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Robert Skidelsky ...
    This sweeping history of humanity’s relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing ... Read more

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  • Henri Lefebvre and Education

    Space, history, theory

    by Sue Middleton ...
    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were available in English until The Production of Space was translated in 1991. While this work - often associated with geography - has influenced educational theory’s ‘spatial turn,’ educationalists have yet to consider Lefebvre’s work ... Read more

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