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The Anatomy of the Senses: Natural Symbols in Medieval and Early Modern Italyby Piero Camporesi, Allan CameronISBN 0745605060 (0-7456-0506-0)
Hardcover, Polity Pr
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Arguing for Socialism: Theoretical Considerationsby Andrew LevineISBN 0710099312 (0-7100-9931-2)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topicsby Clifford GeertzISBN 0691089566 (0-691-08956-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics'Book summary:Whither the social sciences? It sometimes seems as if this diverse and fluid field is permanently at def com 3: defining and defending its borders, skirmishing with science, all while the tenured generals snipe at each other. These manoeuvres sometimes pass over possibly the most important question of all: what is at stake in the study of society and culture? This question is central to anthropology, characterized as it is by the self-reflexive intimacy between its philosophy and methodology. Clifford Geertz--one of the architects of the modern discipline at least since his influential 1973 book, The Interpretation of Cultures--thankfully offers a lucid, enlightening and wonderfully readable series of 11 essays, which consider the history, philosophy and future of not just anthropology but the social sciences, in a style sure to appeal to both academics and lay readers. As a title, Available Light is an apt and playful reflection on the position of the anthropologist, who can only experience what are always only partial truths in the light available at the moment of encounter. Its subtitle, Anthropological Reflections upon Philosophical Topics indicates the extent to which the vocations have moved closer not only as they share many of the same questions, but as philosophers have come to believe that the answers to those great questions of meaning--to the degree that there can be any--are to be found in the fine detail of lived life.
Geertz's own empirical pursuit of the role of ideas in behaviour has lead him through Javanese religion, Balinese states and Moroccan bazaars, modernisation, Islam, kinship, law, art and ethnicity--all drawn upon in these essays. He also ruminates upon the moral anxieties of fieldwork, in chapters such as "Thinking as a Moral Act", "Anti Anti-Relativism"--with its stinging punchline "if we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home"-- and "The Uses of Diversity", opening up issues pertinent to all intellectual pursuits. He goes on to establish the role of anthropology within broader intellectual and philosophical circles by addressing the work of Charles Taylor, Thomas Kuhn, William James and Jerome Bruner. For anyone involved or interested in the social sciences, Geertz offers a powerful sense of the importance and value of such study: "the impact of the social sciences upon our lives will finally be determined more by what sort of moral experience they turn out to embody than by their merely technical effects or by how much money they are permitted to spend." --Christine Buttery [via]
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theoryby Peter BarryISBN 0719062683 (0-7190-6268-3)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Beyond Self-Interest: A Personalist Approach to Human Actionby Kyle Swan, Kim Paffenroth, Robert F. Crespo, Gregory R. BeaboutISBN 0739101838 (0-7391-0183-8)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Bodies of Lawby Alan HydeISBN 0691012288 (0-691-01228-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Communityby Robert D. PutnamISBN 0743203046 (0-7432-0304-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Television, two-career families, suburban sprawl, generational changes in values--these and other changes in American society have meant that fewer and fewer of us find that the League of Women Voters, or the United Way, or the Shriners, or the monthly bridge club, or even a Sunday picnic with friends fits the way we have come to live. Our growing social-capital deficit threatens educational performance, safe neighborhoods, equitable tax collection, democratic responsiveness, everyday honesty, and even our health and happiness.
The conclusions reached in the book Bowling Alone rest on a mountain of data gathered by Putnam and a team of researchers since his original essay appeared. Its breadth of information is astounding--yes, he really has statistics showing people are less likely to take Sunday picnics nowadays. Dozens of charts and graphs track everything from trends in PTA participation to the number of times Americans say they give "the finger" to other drivers each year. If nothing else, Bowling Alone is a fascinating collection of factoids. Yet it does seem to provide an explanation for why "we tell pollsters that we wish we lived in a more civil, more trustworthy, more collectively caring community." What's more, writes Putnam, "Americans are right that the bonds of our communities have withered, and we are right to fear that this transformation has very real costs." Putnam takes a stab at suggesting how things might change, but the book's real strength is in its diagnosis rather than its proposed solutions. Bowling Alone won't make Putnam any less controversial, but it may come to be known as a path-breaking work of scholarship, one whose influence has a long reach into the 21st century. --John J. Miller [via]More editions of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community:
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagersby Alissa QuartISBN 0738208620 (0-7382-0862-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 070110791X (0-7011-0791-X)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralismby Paul VeyneISBN 0713990031 (0-7139-9003-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Challenge of Socialismby Henry PellingISBN 0713601744 (0-7136-0174-4)
Hardcover, Black
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Class, Codes and Controlby Basil BernsteinISBN 0710070608 (0-7100-7060-8)
Hardcover, Routledge and K. Paul
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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essaysby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0701204400 (0-7012-0440-0)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivalsby Ernest GellnerISBN 0713991143 (0-7139-9114-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Critique of the Gotha Programby Karl MarxISBN 0717800431 (0-7178-0043-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermasby Robert WuthnowISBN 0710098944 (0-7100-9894-4)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are laying the foundation for a new approach to the study of culture. The focus is specifically on culture, a concept that remains subject to ambiguities of treatment, and concentrates on questions concerning the definition and content of culture, its construction, its relations with social conditions, and the manner in which it may be changing. The books demonstrates how these writers have made strides towards defining culture as an objective element of social interaction which can be subjected to critical investigation.
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Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraisedby Julie BurchillISBN 0712611401 (0-7126-1140-1)
Hardcover, Century
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The Discourses of Niccolo Machiavelliby Niccolo Machiavelli, Leslie J. Walker, Cecil H. CloughISBN 071008076X (0-7100-8076-X)
Hardcover, Routledge and Paul
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The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religionby Marcel Gauchet, Charles Taylor, Oscar BurgeISBN 0691029377 (0-691-02937-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparteby Karl MarxISBN 0717800563 (0-7178-0056-3)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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The Elements of Social Theoryby Barry BarnesISBN 0691027234 (0-691-02723-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Energy and Equityby Ivan IllichISBN 0714510580 (0-7145-1058-0)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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Equity: In Theory and Practiceby H. Peyton YoungISBN 0691044643 (0-691-04464-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Eroticismby Georges BatailleISBN 0714528722 (0-7145-2872-2)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Lifeby Laurie Taylor, Stanley CohenISBN 0713904941 (0-7139-0494-1)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Foucault, Marxism, and History: Mode of Production Versus Mode of Informationby Mark PosterISBN 0745600182 (0-7456-0018-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Garfinkel and Ethnomethodologyby John HeritageISBN 0745600611 (0-7456-0061-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movementsby Richard J. F. DayISBN 0745321127 (0-7453-2112-7)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Haymarket Tragedyby Paul Avrich, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0691047111 (0-691-04711-1)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalismby LeninISBN 0717800989 (0-7178-0098-9)
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Indeterminacy And Societyby Russell HardinISBN 0691123926 (0-691-12392-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Introduction to Marxismby Emile BurnsISBN 0717801012 (0-7178-0101-2)
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Just Silences: The Limits And Possibilities Of Modern Lawby Marianne ConstableISBN 0691122784 (0-691-12278-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Justice and the Politics of Differenceby Iris Marion YoungISBN 0691023158 (0-691-02315-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defenceby G. A. CohenISBN 0691070687 (0-691-07068-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Knowing Women: Feminism and Knowledgeby Susan Himmelweit, Helen CrowleyISBN 0745609767 (0-7456-0976-7)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Lifeby Simon Schaffer, Steven ShapinISBN 0691024324 (0-691-02432-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Logic of Expressive Choiceby Alexander A. SchuesslerISBN 0691006628 (0-691-00662-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction: Studies in Modern Social Structureby Karl MannheimISBN 071001788X (0-7100-1788-X)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern Worldby Richard Madsen, Tracy B. StrongISBN 0691099936 (0-691-09993-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Marx in His Own Wordsby Ernst Fischer, Franz MarekISBN 0713901292 (0-7139-0129-2)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire : (Post)Modern Interpretationsby Mark Cowling, James MartinISBN 0745318304 (0-7453-1830-4)
Softcover, Pluto Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire : (Post)Modern Interpretations'Book summary:Marx's account of the rise of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte is one of his most important texts. Written after the defeat of the 1848 revolution in France and Bonapartes subsequent coup, it is a concrete analysis that raises enduring theoretical questions about the state, class conflict and ideology. Unlike his earlier analyses, Marx develops a nuanced argument concerning the independence of the state from class interests, the different types of classes, and the determining power of ideas and imagery in politics. In the Eighteenth Brumaire he applies his materialist conception of history to an actual historical event with extraordinary subtlety and an impressive, powerful command of language.This volume contains the most recent and widely acclaimed translation of the Eighteenth Brumaire by Terrell Carver, together with a series of specially commissioned essays on the importance of the Brumaire in Marxs canon. Contributors discuss its continuing significance and interest, the historical background and its present-day relevance for political philosophy and history.[via]More editions of Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire : (Post)Modern Interpretations:
Marx's Paris Writings: An Analysisby John M. MaguireISBN 0717105865 (0-7171-0586-5)
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Materialism and Empirio-Criticismby Vladimir LeninISBN 0717802779 (0-7178-0277-9)
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Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politicsby David BeethamISBN 0745601189 (0-7456-0118-9)
Softcover, Polity Press
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: The Essential Libraryby Charles MacKayISBN 0738843091 (0-7388-4309-1)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Here are astonishing and entertaining tales of thievery, greed and madness. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions from haunted houses and the prophecies of Nostradamus to speculative excess. Charles MacKay explains it all in this classic edition. Enjoy! [via]
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Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategiesby BaumanISBN 0745609406 (0-7456-0940-6)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europeby Patrick GearyISBN 0691114811 (0-691-11481-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Geary dismantles the nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born. Through rigorous analysis set in lucid prose, he contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries--the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. The nationalist sentiments today increasingly taken for granted in Europe emerged, he argues, only in the nineteenth century. Ironically, this phenomenon was kept alive not just by responsive populations--but by complicit scholars.
Ultimately, Geary concludes, the actual formation of European peoples must be seen as an extended process that began in antiquity and continues in the present. The resulting image is a challenge to those who anchor contemporary antagonisms in ancient myths--to those who claim that immigration and tolerance toward minorities despoil ''nationhood.'' As Geary shows, such ideologues--whether Le Pens who champion ''the French people born with the baptism of Clovis in 496'' or Milosevics who cite early Serbian history to claim rebellious regions--know their myths but not their history.
The Myth of Nations will be intensely debated by all who understood that a history that does not change, that reduces the complexities of many centuries to a single, eternal moment, isn't history at all.
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The New Constellation: The Ethical-political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernityby Richard J. BernsteinISBN 0745609201 (0-7456-0920-1)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theoriesby Joseph Berger, Morris ZelditchISBN 0742508692 (0-7425-0869-2)
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The New Industrial Stateby John Kenneth Galbraith, James K. GalbraithISBN 0691131414 (0-691-13141-4)
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The Open Society and Its Enemies: The High Tide of Prophecy Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermathby Karl R. PopperISBN 069101972X (0-691-01972-X)
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In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.
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The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Platoby Karl R. PopperISBN 0691019681 (0-691-01968-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato'Book summary:Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result.
In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.
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Platon's Republicby PlatonISBN 071484408X (0-7148-4408-X)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Platon's Republic'Book summary:A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon, which includes over 120 photographs constituting a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field and include Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen and David Beckham. A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon. Over 120 photographs have been selected from an enormous range of powerful images taken over the last decade and together they constitute a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's Republic is a window into today's media-led culture that bombards, and sometimes overwhelms, us with images of world-wide importance juxtaposed with frivolity. Platon's Republic replicates the same intense and sometimes surreal experience with portraits of Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen as well as more documentary photographs of Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger demonstrating against the death penalty and football supporters. Granted extraordinary access to some of the west's most powerful people, Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field. Whether they are from the TV industry, politicians, actors, fashion designers, writers or musicians, they all wield enormous influence within their arena. Platons' portraits are graphic and intimate, but the unusual angles and revealing expressions are his hallmark. [via]
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Poverty of Philosophyby Karl MarxISBN 0717807010 (0-7178-0701-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Problem of Trustby Adam B. SeligmanISBN 0691050201 (0-691-05020-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Seligman traverses a wide range of examples, from the minutiae of everyday manners to central problems of political and economic life, showing throughout how civility and trust are being displaced in contemporary life by new "external' system constraints inimical to the development of trust. Disturbingly, Seligman shows that trust is losing its unifying power precisely because the individual, long assumed to be the ultimate repository of rights and values, is being reduced to a sum of group identities and an abstract matrix of rules. The irony for Seligman is that, in becoming postmodern, we seem to be moving backward to a premodern condition in which group sanctions rather than trust are the basis of group life. [via]
Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Societyby Krishan KumarISBN 0713911468 (0-7139-1146-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Differenceby Dipesh ChakrabartyISBN 0691049092 (0-691-04909-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledgeby Michael Suk-Young ChweISBN 0691114714 (0-691-11471-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Jean J. RousseauISBN 0714539414 (0-7145-3941-4)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineasby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701128291 (0-7011-2829-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Rule of St. Benedictby Justin McCannISBN 0722076215 (0-7220-7621-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Schools of Thought: Twenty Five Years of Interpretive Social Scienceby Joan Wallach Scott, Debra KeatesISBN 069108842X (0-691-08842-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schools of Thought: Twenty Five Years of Interpretive Social Science'Book summary:Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the School's emphasis on interpretive social science, which rejects models from the hard sciences and opts instead for a humanistic approach to social inquiry.
Following a preface by Clifford Geertz, whose profound insights have helped shape the School from the outset, the essays are arranged in four sections. The first offers personal reflections on disciplinary changes; the second features essays advocating changes in focus or methodology; the third presents field overviews and institutional history; while the fourth addresses the link between political philosophy and world governance. Two recurring themes are the uses (and pitfalls) of interdisciplinary studies and the relation between scholarship and social change. This book will be rewarding for anyone interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds.
The contributors include David Apter, Kaushik Basu, Judith Butler, Nicholas Dirks, Jean Elshtain, Peter Galison, Wolf Lepenies, Jane Mansbridge, Andrew Pickering, Mary Poovey, Istvan Rev, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Rustin, Joan W. Scott, William H. Sewell, Jr., Quentin Skinner, Charles Taylor, Anna Tsing, Michael Walzer, and Gavin Wright.
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Selections from the Prison Notebooksby A. GramsciISBN 071780397X (0-7178-0397-X)
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsciby Antonio Gramsci, Quintin Hoare, Geoffrey Nowell-SmithISBN 0717802701 (0-7178-0270-1)
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Small Town in Mass Society; Class, Power and Religion in a Rural Community,by Arthur J. VidichISBN 0691028079 (0-691-02807-9)
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolutionby Howard RheingoldISBN 0738208612 (0-7382-0861-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution'Book summary:From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Howard Rheingold takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift-a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, personal digital assistants, and wireless-paging and Internet-access devices that will allow us to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime.From the amusing ("Lovegetty" devices in Japan that light up when a person with the right date-potential characteristics appears in the vicinity) to the extraordinary (the overthrow of a repressive regime in the Philippines by political activists who mobilized by forwarding text messages via cell phones), Rheingold gives examples of the fundamentally new ways in which people are already engaging in group or collective action. He also considers the dark side of this phenomenon, such as the coordination of terrorist cells, threats to privacy, and the ability to incite violent behavior.Applying insights from sociology, artificial intelligence, engineering, and anthropology, Rheingold offers a penetrating perspective on the brave new convergence of pop culture, cutting-edge technology, and social activism. At the same time, he reminds us that, as with other technological revolutions, the real impact of mobile communications will come not from the technology itself but from how people use it, resist it, adapt to it, and ultimately use it to transform themselves, their communities, and their institutions. [via]
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The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Changeby Hendrik SpruytISBN 0691029105 (0-691-02910-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change'Book summary:The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism--among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies--Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system.
The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion. Instead, individuals created a variety of institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the general dynamics of institutional change.
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Structural Anthropologyby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0713910216 (0-7139-1021-6)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Sweden: The Myth of Socialismby Larry HuffordISBN 0716320339 (0-7163-2033-9)
Hardcover, Fabian Society
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0717802000 (0-7178-0200-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Days That Shook the World'Book summary:The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!"
Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will."
In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societiesby Anthony GiddensISBN 0745612393 (0-7456-1239-3)
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Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theoryby Nancy FraserISBN 0745603912 (0-7456-0391-2)
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Wage-Labour and Capital and Value, Price, and Profitby Karl MarxISBN 0717804704 (0-7178-0470-4)
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Weberby Donald Gunn MacraeISBN 0713001151 (0-7130-0115-1)
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What Is to Be Done?: Burning Questions of Our Movementby Vladimir Ilich LeninISBN 0717802183 (0-7178-0218-3)
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Why?by Charles TillyISBN 069112521X (0-691-12521-X)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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