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Considers how ethical traditions, such as libertarianism, critical theory, feminism, liberal egalitarianism, natural law, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Confucianism define civil society. This book considers the extent to which these traditions agree or disagree on how to define civil society's limits and how to evaluate its benefits and harms.

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Assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. This book presents a concise, critical appraisal of thinkers and their ideas about art and its place in the wider cultural context. It is a guide to the key thinkers who shape the world of art.

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Assesses the work of leading thinkers (including artists) who are having a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art. This is a guide to the key thinkers who shape world of art. It is a useful reference for those interested in modern and contemporary art, its history, theory, philosophy and practice.

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First published in 1962, this is a book about Marx and Freud - the two intellectual giants of the 20th century. It introduces many of readers to unknown aspects of Marx and Freud, as it also serves as an introduction to the life and mind of Erich Fromm as well.

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Beyond the Enlightenment makes accessible important ideas that helped shape twentieth-century thought. These ideas still have a great deal of significance today and affect all people interested in the social world. The book is a mixture of biographical and historical ideas, written to introduce social theory to a broad audience.

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Beyond the Enlightenment makes accessible important ideas that helped shape twentieth-century thought. These ideas still have a great deal of significance today and affect all people interested in the social world. The book is a mixture of biographical and historical ideas, written to introduce social theory to a broad audience.

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minorities tended to have an inferior status, subordinated to the ruling, dominant ethnic class.

While Athens provides an early example of a state formed by alliance and association, the Romans advanced this concept when they extended to subjected peoples the status by means of citizenship.

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In this globalised and militarised everywhere, all citizens are becoming one citizen - saturated, standardised and synchronised - ever more reliant on a media fabricating a world of fear. For the panic of the 21st century is simply the final phase of the pincer movement.

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Classical Social Theory and Modern Society introduces students to Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. After surveying the historical context in which they wrote, the book provides an overview of each thinker, then places them in dialogue with each other on four issues that remain relevant to life in todays modern world.

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Bhambra outlines what 'Theory for a Global Age' might look like, offering this outline as a statement for consideration, contestation and discussion. Bhambra sets the agenda for a new social theory which not only engages with global intellectual currents, but is fundamentally reshaped by them.

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This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt Schools relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of modern demagogy and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox populism studies and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institutes analysis to assess counter-demagogic forces.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society. >

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This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people's Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.

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Axel Honneths critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.

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"Unpicks the knotty problem of cultural appropriation in fashion and entertainment, using sociological analysis to explore international examples and engage with the passionate debates that surround them as well as the implications for designers, artists and consumers"--

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Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy. -- .

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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

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