Preface -- Confronting the facts of life -- Why we make such bad decisions -- American exceptionalism -- How could a Trump triumph? -- Trump, tribalism, and the attack on democracy -- Defending democracy : the path forward -- Sustaining our brave new world -- The pursuit of happ…
Other Englands examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism. Above all, it asserts that this literary genre was always already an expression of social crisis and economic transition, a context refracted in the origin stories and imagined ge…
Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.
Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.
"Called "the Elvis of cultural theory" by The New York Times, popular philosopher and leftist rabble-rouser Slavoj Zizek, looks at one of the most desperate situations of our time: the current refugee crisis overwhelming Europe. In this short yet stirring book, Zizek argues that…
Ulrich Beck: An Introduction to the Theory of the Risk Society and Second Modernity is a complete introduction to the sociology of German sociologist, Ulrich Beck. The book covers the whole of Beck' s work from his first publications in the 1970s until his latest publications in…
"Loin d'être dépassée, la notion d'engagement reste, au prix de certains élargissements, efficace et fructueuse pour penser la littérature. Partant de l'évolution, au cours de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, de discours cristallisés par Jean-Paul Sartre, cet ouvrage propose une…
"The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the world's leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. Comprised of 47 chapters divided into six sections: - Historical, social…
"Farewell to Modernism : On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century is an original, pathbreaking, revolutionary, and totalizing critique of received Modernist ideas, including Modernist Utopianism. In that vein, it unseats virtually every dearly held myth of EuroModernist d…
Rich and Poor offers a full exploration of Galdós's treatment of questions relating to the creation and distribution of wealth in the modern money-centred society of Restoration Spain. To this day no other critical work on Galdós has analysed the financial and economic aspects o…
In 'The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste', John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the society of the spectacle, a philosophical concept developed by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. Using the analytical tools of social science, while historic…
