"It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing…
James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English …
"Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet - who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-centu…
In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the clich ̌goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his student…
In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliché goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his studen…
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held political and social positions of our age?liberal, socialist, and conservative.
"In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Lo…
In einer Welt, in der eine Krise nach der nächsten verkündet wird, verlockt das Denken des Sozialphilosophen Ivan Illich zu einer Suche nach Auswegen. Doch lässt sich das Denken des scharfen Kritikers der Modernisierung und Verfechters konvivialer Technologien für die Errichtung…
In einer Welt, in der eine Krise nach der nächsten verkündet wird, verlockt das Denken des Sozialphilosophen Ivan Illich zu einer Suche nach Auswegen. Doch lässt sich das Denken des scharfen Kritikers der Modernisierung und Verfechters konvivialer Technologien für die Errichtung…
<P>In einer Welt, in der eine Krise nach der nächsten verkündet wird, verlockt das Denken des Sozialphilosophen Ivan Illich zu einer Suche nach Auswegen. Doch lässt sich das Denken des scharfen Kritikers der Modernisierung und Verfechters konvivialer Technologien für die Erricht…
