An analysis of the discourse of the liberal intellectual, based on the assumption that acts of discourse not only take place in a society but are constructions of a society, with a focus on the writing of George Eliot.
Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information, from television to video games and the internet, that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit. In this new book, c…
Die soziale Frage ist in die politische Öffentlichkeit zurückgekehrt. Begriffe wie Prekarität, Ausgrenzung und Exklusion sind in aller Munde. Was aber wird genau mit diesen Begriffen bezeichnet? Lassen sich die sozialen Spaltungen, die meist von der Arbeitswelt ausgehen, damit a…
Thomas R. Rourke traces the development of Pope Francis's thinking from his time as a Jesuit provincial through today. Meticulously researched, the book draws on decades of previously untranslated writings from Father Jorge Bergoglio, SJ, who went on to become Archbishop and Car…