Editorial Polity
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In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberte, egalite, fraternite. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8712-4
EAN 9780745687124
Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Throughout history the awareness of good and evil has always been linked to the awareness of choice ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 25,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8682-0
EAN 9780745686820
Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and the constitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers the main players ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8831-2
EAN 9780745688312
The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before. But have these measures been successful, and do they go far enough? ...
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- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6712-6
EAN 9780745667126
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese ...
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- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6540-5
EAN 9780745665405
The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect ...
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A Stranger in my own Country
Prison Diary, 1944
- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8156-6
EAN 9780745681566
'I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.' Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of 'inward emigration'. Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free ...
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The Most Sublime Hysteric
Hegel with Lacan
- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6375-3
EAN 9780745663753
What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most ...
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- Polity, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 650 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-5077-7
EAN 9780745650777
Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the Great Terror' during which 1 million ...
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- Polity, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-5221-4
EAN 9780745652214
The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, ...
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- Polity, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-3341-1
EAN 9780745633411
Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty's work. He demonstrates to the general reader and to the student of philosophy alike how the radical views on truth, objectivity and rationality expressed in Rorty's widely-read essays on contemporary culture and politics derive from his earliest work in the philosophy of mind and language. He ...
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- Polity, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-3510-1
EAN 9780745635101
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- Polity, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-3987-1
EAN 9780745639871
The passage from solid' to liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals ...
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- Polity, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-2633-8
EAN 9780745626338
In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of mena s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly preoccupied with the poor educational performance of boys, and criminologists ...
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- Polity, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-2410-5
EAN 9780745624105
The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history.This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five ...
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The End of Modernity
Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture
- Polity, 1991
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-0971-3
EAN 9780745609713
Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post--modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger and shows how their bitter criticisms of modern European thought prepared the way for more recent proclamations of the end of the modern era. Vattimo pursues questions central ...
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Decolonial Ecology
Thinking from the Caribbean World
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-4623-7
EAN 9781509546237
The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth's ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a ...
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