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- Polity, 2008
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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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In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity. Now, in what they call the 'global culture industry', Scott Lash and Celia Lury argue that Adorno's worst nightmares have come true. Their new ...
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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, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 142 páginas
PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4326-7
EAN 9780745643267
In our individualized society we are all artists of life - whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice. In this society we are all expected, rightly or wrongly, to give our lives purpose and form by using ...
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- Polity, 2008
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PVP: 22,09 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-3879-9
EAN 9780745638799
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- Polity, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-2914-8
EAN 9780745629148
This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century, when scientific medicine began to gain ascendancy. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a lively and well exemplified account of the numerous historical manifestations of dietetics showing that despite the diversity of notions of healthy ...
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- Polity, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 22,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4002-0
EAN 9780745640020
With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. They all ...
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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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Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary ...
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Wasted Lives
Modernity and its Outcasts
- Polity, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-3165-3
EAN 9780745631653
The production of human waste' or more precisely, wasted lives, the superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected ...
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- Polity, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-3121-9
EAN 9780745631219
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the idea of intertextuality and the debates surrounding it, focusing on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette. * A comprehensive introduction to 'intertextuality', a term which describes the idea that meaning only exists between a text ...
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- Polity, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-2489-1
EAN 9780745624891
This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our liquid modern ...
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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
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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 Weight of the World
Social Suffering and Impoverishment in Contemporary Society
- Polity, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-1593-6
EAN 9780745615936
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Practical Reason
On the Theory of Action
- Polity, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 34,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-1625-4
EAN 9780745616254
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The Rules of Art
Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field
- Polity, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-1778-7
EAN 9780745617787
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- Polity, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-1034-4
EAN 9780745610344
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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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