| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “social theory”
books tagged “social theory”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
Action and Its Environments: Toward a New Synthesisby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0231062087 (0-231-06208-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Action and Its Environments: Toward a New Synthesis'More editions of Action and Its Environments: Toward a New Synthesis:
Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution and Societyby Stephen Mennell, Stone, John D. & Mennell, StephenISBN 0226805271 (0-226-80527-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution and Society'More editions of Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution and Society:
Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society: Selected Writingsby Stephen Mennell, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice ClâErel De Tocqueville, John D. StoneISBN 0226805263 (0-226-80526-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society: Selected Writings'More editions of Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society: Selected Writings:
Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syriaby Lisa WedeenISBN 0226877884 (0-226-87788-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria'More editions of Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria:
Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciencesby George Marcus, Michael M. J. FischerISBN 0226504506 (0-226-50450-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences'More editions of Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences:
Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciencesby Michael Fischer, George MarcusISBN 0226504492 (0-226-50449-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences'More editions of Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences:
The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aestheticsby Martha WoodmanseeISBN 0231106017 (0-231-10601-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics'More editions of The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics:
-
Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Workby Gary Saul MorsonISBN 0226541339 (0-226-54133-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work'More editions of Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work:
-
Beyond Self-Interestby Jane J. MansbridgeISBN 0226503607 (0-226-50360-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Self-Interest'Book summary:A dramatic transformation has begun in the way scholars think about human nature. Political scientists, psychologists, economists, and evolutionary biologists are beginning to reject the view that human affairs are shaped almost exclusively by self-interesta view that came to dominate social science in the last three decades.[via]
In Beyond Self-Interest, leading social scientists argue for a view of individuals behavior and social organization that takes into account the powerful motivations of duty, love, and malevolence. Economists who go beyond "economic man," psychologists who go beyond stimulus-response, evolutionary biologists who go beyond the "selfish gene," and political scientists who go beyond the quest for power come together in this provocative and important manifesto.
The essays trace, from the ancient Greeks to the present, the use of self-interest to explain political life. They investigate the differences between self-interest and the motivations of duty and love, showing how these motivations affect behavior in "prisoners' dilemma" interactions. They generate evolutionary models that explain how altruistic motivations escape extinction.
They suggest ways to model within one individual the separate motivations of public spirit and self-interest, investigate public spirit and self-interest, investigate public spirit in citizen and legislative behavior, and demonstrate that the view of democracy in existing Constitutional interpretations is not based on self-interest. They advance both human evil and mothering as alternatives to self-interest, this last in a penetrating feminist critique of the "contract" model of human interaction.More editions of Beyond Self-Interest:
Brains, Practices, Relativism: Social Theory After Cognitive Scienceby Stephen TurnerISBN 0226817407 (0-226-81740-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Brains, Practices, Relativism: Social Theory After Cognitive Science'More editions of Brains, Practices, Relativism: Social Theory After Cognitive Science:
-
The Cityby Robert E. Park, Ernest Watson BurgessISBN 0226646114 (0-226-64611-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The City'Book summary:The City, first published in 1925 and reprinted here in its entirety, is a cross-section of concerns of the Chicago urban school during the period of its most intense activity. Park and Burgess realized that ecological and economic factors were converted into a social organization by the traditions and aspirations of city dwellers. In their efforts to achieve objectivity, these sociologists never lost sight of the values that propel human beings.[via]
"It is a classic which remains relevant largely because it poses questions still unresolved."ChoiceMore editions of The City:
Constructing Social Theoriesby Arthur L. StinchcombeISBN 0226774848 (0-226-77484-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Constructing Social Theories'More editions of Constructing Social Theories:
-
The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophyby Mitchell AboulafiaISBN 0252026500 (0-252-02650-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy'Book summary:In this incisive commentary, Mitchell Aboulafia examines the relevance of the American pragmatist philosopher George Herbert Mead to current debates on pluralism, universalism, and the fostering of a democratic temper. Addressing the relationship between Mead's notions of self and society and those of important continental thinkers, "The Cosmopolitan Self" demonstrates that Mead's ideas not only speak to resolving the tension between universalism and pluralism, they do so in a manner that challenges and advances the positions of these continental theoreticians. Aboulafia examines how Mead's insights illuminate Hannah Arendt's reading of Immanual Kant's third Critique and Jrgen Habermas's understanding of the relationship among communicative action, universality, and individuation. Teasing out strands of agreement and disagreement among Mead and these theorists on topics such as impartiality and good judgment, Aboulafia develops a conception of universalism that is compatible with contemporary notions of pluralism He also addresses the serious challenge presented to Mead's approach to pluralism by Emmanuel Levinas, who holds that true pluralism, presupposing an irreducible individualism, is fundamentally irreconcilable with universalism. "The Cosmopolitan Self" offers a model of the democratically inclined individual who embodies both a capacity to establish common ground with others and a sensitivity to their uniqueness. This important volume appreciably advances the dialogue between continental thought and classical American philosophy. [via]
More editions of The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy:
Crossroads in the Labyrinthby Cornelius CastoriadisISBN 0262031051 (0-262-03105-1)
Hardcover, MIT Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossroads in the Labyrinth'More editions of Crossroads in the Labyrinth:
Culture and Commitment: The New Relationships Between the Generations in the 1970sby Margaret MeadISBN 0231046324 (0-231-04632-4)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Commitment: The New Relationships Between the Generations in the 1970s'More editions of Culture and Commitment: The New Relationships Between the Generations in the 1970s:
-
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalismby Nick Dyer-WithefordISBN 0252067959 (0-252-06795-9)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism'Book summary:'In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another'.'Cutting through the smokescreen of high-tech propaganda, Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, 'autonomist' Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth'. [via]
More editions of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism:
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutionsby William J. WilsonISBN 0226901297 (0-226-90129-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Charging American Institutions'Book summary:This new paperback edition includes a major new essay in which William Julius Wilson not only reflects on the debate surrounding his book, but also presents a provocative discussion of race, class, and social policy.[via]
"Wilson has written a profound and provocative book that is destined to become a classic in the field. He has articulated the issues with which future researchers will have to deal. Truly, he has made a contribution to social science."--Wilson Record, American Journal of Sociology
"The intellectual strength of this book lies in his capacity to integrate disparate findings from historical studies, social theory and research on contemporary trends into a complex and original synthesis that challenges widespread assumptions about the cause of black disadvantage and the way to remove it."--Paul Starr, New York Times Book Review
This is a short but important book. . . . Wilson presents a cogent and convincing interpretation of how the changing political and economic structure of the United States profoundly affected the position of black Americans."--Pierre van den Berghe, Sociology and Social Research
"This publication is easily one of the most erudite and sober diagnoses of the American black situation. Students of race relations and anybody in a policy-making position cannot afford to bypass this study."--Ernest Manheim, SociologyMore editions of The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions:
Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politicsby James Bohman, William RehgISBN 0262024349 (0-262-02434-9)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics'More editions of Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics:
The Derrida-Habermas Readerby Jacques Derrida, Jurgen HabermasISBN 0226796841 (0-226-79684-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Derrida-Habermas Reader'More editions of The Derrida-Habermas Reader:
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Projectby Susan Buck-MorssISBN 0262022680 (0-262-02268-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project'More editions of The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project:
-
Discourses on Livyby Niccolo Machiavelli, Nathan Tarcov, Harvey C. MansfieldISBN 0226500365 (0-226-50036-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourses on Livy'Book summary:Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety of thought, it is eminently readable. With a substantial introduction, extensive explanatory notes, a glossary of key words, and an annotated index, the Discourses reveals Machiavelli's radical vision of a new science of politics, a vision of "new modes and orders" that continue to shape the modern ethos.[via]
"[Machiavelli] found in Livy the means to inspire scholars for five centuries. Within the Discourses, often hidden and sometimes unintended by their author, lie the seeds of modern political thought. . . . [Mansfield and Tarcov's] translation is careful and idiomatic."--Peter Stothard, The Times
"Translated with painstaking accuracy--but also great readability."--Weekly Standard
"A model of contemporary scholarship and a brave effort at Machiavelli translation that allows the great Florentine to speak in his own voice."--Choice 
Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planningby Christine M. BoyerISBN 0262021862 (0-262-02186-2)
Hardcover, MIT Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning'More editions of Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning:
Essays in Social Theoryby Steven LukesISBN 023104450X (0-231-04450-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays in Social Theory'More editions of Essays in Social Theory:
-
Essays on Sex Equalityby Alice S. RossiISBN 0226525465 (0-226-52546-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays on Sex Equality'Book summary:This volume brings together for the first time all the writings of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill on equality between the sexes, including John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women, a classic in the history of the women's rights movement since its publication one hundred years ago.[via]
Also contained in this volume is a major interpretative essay by Alice S. Rossi on Mill and Harriet Taylor which describes and analyzes their long personal and intellectual relationship.More editions of Essays on Sex Equality:
Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialistby Nick SalvatoreISBN 0252011481 (0-252-01148-1)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist'More editions of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist:
Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernityby Micaela Di LeonardoISBN 0226472647 (0-226-47264-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity'More editions of Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity:
Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropologyby Ulf HannerzISBN 0231083769 (0-231-08376-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology'More editions of Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology:
-
The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0261632086 (0-261-63208-6)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Eunuch'Book summary:Available alongside five other Modern Classics first published by Flamingo in the 1970s, this is a re-issue of Germaine's Greer's feminist classic. Translated into many languages, "The Female Eunuch" is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued piece of polemic. [via]
More editions of The Female Eunuch:
-
Gender and the Politics of Historyby Joan Wallach ScottISBN 0231118570 (0-231-11857-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender and the Politics of History'Book summary:From one of the most important feminist historians of our time, this is a trenchant collection of women's history and gender inequality. [via]
More editions of Gender and the Politics of History:
George Herbert Mead on Social Psychologyby George H. MeadISBN 0226516652 (0-226-51665-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology'More editions of George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology:
George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the Worldby David L. MillerISBN 0226526135 (0-226-52613-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World'More editions of George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World:
Germany and the Germansby John Ardagh, Katharina ArdaghISBN 0241121167 (0-241-12116-7)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Germany and the Germans'More editions of Germany and the Germans:
-
Globalization: The Human Consequencesby Zygmunt BaumanISBN 023111429X (0-231-11429-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Globalization: The Human Consequences'Book summary:The word "globalization" is used to convey the hope and determination of order-making on a worldwide scale. It is trumpeted as providing more mobility -of people, capital, and information -and as being equally beneficial for everyone. With recent technological developments -most notably the Internet -globalization seems to be the fate of the world. But no one seems to be in control. As noted sociologist Zygmunt Bauman shows in this detailed history of globalization, while human affairs now take place on a global scale, we are not able to direct events; we can only watch as boundaries, institutions, and loyalties shift in rapid and unpredictable ways. Who benefits from the new globalization? Are people in need assisted more quickly and efficiently? Or are the poor worse off than ever before? Will a globalized economy shift jobs away from traditional areas, destroying time-honored national industries? Who will enjoy access to jobs in the new hierarchy of mobility? From the way the global economy creates a class of absentee landlords to current prison designs for the criminalized underclass, Bauman dissects globalization in all its manifestations: its effects on the economy, politics, social structures, and even our perceptions of time and space. In a chilling analysis, Bauman argues that globalization divides as much as it unites, creating an ever-widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots. Rather than the hybrid culture we had hoped for, globalization is creating a more homogenous world. Drawing on the works of philosophers, social historians, architects, and theoreticians such as Michel Foucault, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alfred J. Dunlap, and Le Corbusier, presents a historical overview of the methods employed to create and define human spaces and institutions, from rural villages to sprawling urban centers. Bauman shows how the advent of the computer translates into the decline of truly public space. And he explores the dimensions of a world in which -through new technologies -time is accelerated and space is compressed, revealing how we have arrived at our current state of global thinking. Bauman´s incisive methods of inquiry make an excellent antidote to the exuberance expressed by those who stand to benefit from the new pace and mobility of the modern life. [via]
More editions of Globalization: The Human Consequences:
Habermas on Historical Materialismby Tom RockmoreISBN 0253327091 (0-253-32709-1)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Habermas on Historical Materialism'More editions of Habermas on Historical Materialism:
-
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Societyby Mary PooveyISBN 0226675262 (0-226-67526-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society'Book summary:How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences?[via]
Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how beliefwhether figured as credit, credibility, or credulityremained essential to the production of knowledge.
Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.More editions of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society:
- A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: ISBN 0226675254 (0-226-67525-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: ISBN 0226675262 (0-226-67526-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: ISBN 0226675254 (0-226-67525-4)
-
Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Lifeby Christena E. Nippert-EngISBN 0226581462 (0-226-58146-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Life'Book summary:Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home and work events? Do you have separate telephone books for colleagues and friends? In Home and Work, Christena Nippert-Eng examines the intricacies and implications of how we draw the line between home and work.[via]
Arguing that relationships between the two realms range from those that are highly "integrating" to those that are highly "segmenting," Nippert-Eng examines the ways people sculpt the boundaries between home and work. With remarkable sensitivity to the symbolic value of objects and actions, Nippert-Eng explores the meaning of clothing, wallets, lunches and vacations, and the places and ways in which we engage our family, friends, and co-workers. Commuting habits are also revealing, showing how we make the transition between home and work selves though ritualized behavior like hellos and goodbyes, the consumption of food, the way we dress, our choices of routes to and from work, and our listening, working, and sleeping habits during these journeys.
The ways each of us manages time, space, and people not only reflect but reinforce lives that are more "integrating" or "segmenting" at any given time. In clarifying what we take for granted, this book will leave you thinking in different ways about your life and work.More editions of Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Life:
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideologyby W. J. Thomas MitchellISBN 0226532291 (0-226-53229-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology'More editions of Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology:
The Legitimacy of the Modern Ageby Robert M. Wallace, Hans BlumenbergISBN 0262021846 (0-262-02184-6)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legitimacy of the Modern Age'More editions of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age:
Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europeby Yasemin Nuhoglu SoysalISBN 0226768422 (0-226-76842-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe'More editions of Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe:
Logics Of History: Social Theory And Social Transformationby William H. SewellISBN 0226749185 (0-226-74918-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Logics Of History: Social Theory And Social Transformation'More editions of Logics Of History: Social Theory And Social Transformation:
Making History: The American Left and the American Mindby Richard FlacksISBN 0231048327 (0-231-04832-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Making History: The American Left and the American Mind'More editions of Making History: The American Left and the American Mind:
Man, Mind, and Science: A History of Anthropologyby Murray J. LeafISBN 0231046197 (0-231-04619-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Man, Mind, and Science: A History of Anthropology'More editions of Man, Mind, and Science: A History of Anthropology:
The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Scienceby Andrew PickeringISBN 0226668037 (0-226-66803-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science'More editions of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science:
A Marxist Looks at Jesusby Milan MachovecISBN 0232512604 (0-232-51260-4)
Hardcover, Darton, Longman and Todd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Marxist Looks at Jesus'More editions of A Marxist Looks at Jesus:
Medieval Callingsby Jacques Le Goff, Lydia G. CochraneISBN 0226470873 (0-226-47087-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Callings'Book summary:These essays by eleven internationally renowned historians present nuanced profiles of the major social and professional groupsthe callings-of the Middle Ages.[via]
The contributors focus on attitudes of medieval men and women toward their own society. Through a variety of techniques, from a reading of the Song of Roland to a reading of administrative records, they identify characteristic viewpoints of members of the fighting class, the clergy, and the peasantry. Along with vivid descriptions of what life was like for warrior knights, monks, high churchmen, criminals, lepers, shepherds, and prostitutes, this innovative approach offers a valuable new perspective on the complex social dynamics of feudal Europe.
"Very useful discussions of texts, both learned and literary."Christopher Dyer, Times Literary Supplement
Contributors: Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Franco Cardini, Enrico Castelnuovo, Giovanni Cherubini, Bronislaw Geremek, Aron Ja. Gurevich, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Jacques Le Goff, Giovanni Miccoli, Jacques Rossiaud, and André Vauchez.
The Medieval Imaginationby Jacques Le Goff, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0226470857 (0-226-47085-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medieval Imagination'More editions of The Medieval Imagination:
Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adornoby Gillian RoseISBN 0231045840 (0-231-04584-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno'More editions of Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno:
The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Contextby Mark PosterISBN 0226675963 (0-226-67596-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Context'More editions of The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Context:
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Cultureby Mark C. TaylorISBN 0226791181 (0-226-79118-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture'Book summary:"The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic."-John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, author of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematics[via]
The science of complexity accounts for that inscrutable mix of chaos and order that governs our natural world. Complexity explains how networks emerge and function, how species organize into ecosystems, how stars form into galaxies, and how just a few sequences of DNA can account for so many different life forms. Recently, the idea of complexity has taken the worlds of business and politics by storm. The concept is used to account for phenomena as varied as the behavior of the stock market, the response of voting populations, and the effects of risk management. Even Disney has used complexity theory to manage crowd control at its theme parks.
Given the startling development of new information technologies, we now live in a moment of unprecedented complexity, an era in which change occurs faster than our ability to comprehend it. With The Moment of Complexity, Mark C. Taylor offers a timely map for this unfamiliar terrain opening in our midst, unfolding an original philosophy through a remarkable synthesis of science and culture. According to Taylor, complexity is not just a breakthrough scientific concept, but the defining quality of the post-Cold War era. The flux of digital currents swirling around us, he argues, has created a new network culture with its own distinctive logic and dynamic.
Drawing on resources from information theory and evolutionary biology, Taylor explains the operation of complex adaptive systems in social and cultural processes and captures a whole new zeitgeist in the making. To appreciate the significance of our emerging network culture, he claims, we need not only to understand contemporary scientific and technological transformations, but also to explore the subtle influences of art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and higher education. The Moment of Complexity, then, is a remarkable work of cultural analysis on a scale rarely seen today. To follow its trajectory is to learn how we arrived at this critical moment in our culture, and to know where we might head in the twenty-first century.More editions of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture:
Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Centuryby G.H. MeadISBN 0226516628 (0-226-51662-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century'More editions of Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century:
The Neutral: Lecture Course At The College De France 1977-1978by Roland Barthes, Thomas Clerc, Eric Marty, Denis Hollier, Rosalind E. KraussISBN 0231134045 (0-231-13404-5)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Neutral: Lecture Course At The College De France 1977-1978'More editions of The Neutral: Lecture Course At The College De France 1977-1978:
-
On Social Structure and Scienceby Piotr Sztompka, Robert K. MertonISBN 0226520714 (0-226-52071-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'On Social Structure and Science'Book summary:Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field, Merton is best known for introducing such concepts and procedures as unanticipated consequences, self-fulfilling prophecies, focused group interviews, middle-range theory, opportunity structure, and analytic paradigms.[via]
This definitive compilation encompasses the breadth and brilliance of his works, from the earliest to the most recent. Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself are all powerfully represented, as are his autobiographical insights in a fascinating coda. Anchored by Piotr Sztompka's contextualizing introduction, Merton's vast oeuvre emerges as a dynamic and profoundly coherent system of thought, a constant source of vitality and renewal for present and future sociology.More editions of On Social Structure and Science:
Philosophy of the Actby George H. MeadISBN 0226516660 (0-226-51666-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy of the Act'More editions of Philosophy of the Act:
Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought For An Anti-utopian Ageby Russell JacobyISBN 0231128940 (0-231-12894-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought For An Anti-utopian Age'More editions of Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought For An Anti-utopian Age:
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber: Collected Essaysby Wolfgang J. MommsenISBN 0226534006 (0-226-53400-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber: Collected Essays'More editions of The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber: Collected Essays:
Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practiceby Judith Kegan GardinerISBN 0252064186 (0-252-06418-6)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice'More editions of Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice:
Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the Stateby James M. Buchanan, Richard Abel MusgraveISBN 0262024624 (0-262-02462-4)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State'More editions of Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State:
-
The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiquesby Claude Levi-Strauss, John Weightman, Doreen WeightmanISBN 0226474879 (0-226-47487-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques'Book summary:"Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."Natural History[via]More editions of The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques:
-
Real Presencesby George SteinerISBN 0226772349 (0-226-77234-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Real Presences'Book summary:[via]Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication.
"A real tour de force. . . . All the virtues of the author's astounding intelligence and compelling rhetoric are evident from the first sentence onward."Anthony C. Yu, Journal of Religion 
Reinterpreting Propertyby Margaret Jane RadinISBN 0226702286 (0-226-70228-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Reinterpreting Property'More editions of Reinterpreting Property:
Selected Writings of George Herbert Meadby Andrew J. Reck, George Herbert MeadISBN 0226516717 (0-226-51671-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings of George Herbert Mead'More editions of Selected Writings of George Herbert Mead:
Social Sciences as Sorceryby Stanislav AndreskiISBN 0233962263 (0-233-96226-3)
Hardcover, Deutsch
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Sciences as Sorcery'More editions of Social Sciences as Sorcery:
-
Socialist Thought: A Documentary Historyby Albert Fried, Ronald SandersISBN 0231082657 (0-231-08265-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Socialist Thought: A Documentary History'Book summary:In "Socialist Thought" Fried and Sanders set socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present by using major turning points such as 1789, when the French Revolution launched socialism, to establish a chronological framework. The authors contend that though its roots can be traced to the Bible, socialism truly came into being at the end of the 18th century, the age of democratic ideas, as a response to the Industrial Revolution and an attempt to change the consciousness of society and its material organization. The readings, emphasizing utopian socialists and Marx, demonstrate that socialist aspirations throughout history have been as varied as the individuals expressing them. Over the past three centuries, socialists have embraced both anti-authoritarianism and totalitarianism, class struggle and co-operation, revolution and democracy. [via]
More editions of Socialist Thought: A Documentary History:
Status Anxiety: Library Editionby Alain De BottonISBN 0241142385 (0-241-14238-5)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Status Anxiety: Library Edition'More editions of Status Anxiety: Library Edition:
Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociologyby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0231066880 (0-231-06688-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology'More editions of Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology:
Theories of Man and Cultureby Elvin HatchISBN 0231036396 (0-231-03639-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Theories of Man and Culture'More editions of Theories of Man and Culture:
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Objectby Johannes Fabian, Matti BunzlISBN 0231125771 (0-231-12577-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object'More editions of Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object:
- Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object: ISBN 0231055919 (0-231-05591-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr - Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object: ISBN 0231055900 (0-231-05590-0)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press - Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object: ISBN 0231125771 (0-231-12577-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
- Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object: ISBN 0231055919 (0-231-05591-9)
-
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policyby William Julius WilsonISBN 0226901319 (0-226-90131-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy'Book summary:"The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they--as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races--would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis."--Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review[via]
"'Must reading' for civil-rights leaders, leaders of advocacy organizations for the poor, and for elected officials in our major urban centers."--Bernard C. Watson, Journal of Negro Education
"Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass."--David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World
Selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the sixteen best books of 1987.
Winner of the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.More editions of The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy:
Up from Communismby Diggins, John, P.ISBN 0231084889 (0-231-08488-9)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Communism'More editions of Up from Communism:
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminismby Elizabeth GroszISBN 0253208629 (0-253-20862-9)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism'More editions of Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism:
What Is Sociology?by Norbert EliasISBN 0231045514 (0-231-04551-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is Sociology?'
Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledgeby David BloorISBN 0231058012 (0-231-05801-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge'More editions of Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge:
-
The Work & The Giftby Scott Cutler ShershowISBN 0226752577 (0-226-75257-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Work & The Gift'Book summary:The Work and the Gift considers how working and giving are taken for opposites and revealed as each other's ghostly shadow. We ask ourselves, for instance, to work for a wage and a living, dooming ourselves forever to the curse of daily toil; and yet we imagine the magnum opus or the oeuvre as a labor of love. We ask ourselves to give with no thought of return; yet we still tell ourselves to give only to the deserving and only where our giving will do some good.[via]
Ranging from Marx and Derrida to Friedrich Hayek and Alvin Toffler, Scott Cutler Shershow here explores the predictions of political thinkers on both the left and the right that work is fundamentally changing, or even disappearing; the debates among anthropologists and historians about an archaic gift-economy that preceded capitalism and might reemerge in its wake; contemporary political battles over charity and social welfare; and attempts by modern and postmodern artists to destabilize the work of art as we know it.
Ultimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but simply in our fundamental being-in-common. What results is a brilliant intervention in critical theory and social thought that will be of enormous value to students of literary criticism, anthropology, and philosophy alike.More editions of The Work & The Gift:
Work on Mythby Hans BlumenbergISBN 026202215X (0-262-02215-X)
Hardcover, MIT Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Work on Myth'More editions of Work on Myth:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}