Social theory books

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Mimetic Theory and World Religions

Mimetic Theory and World Religions

Author: Wolfgang Palaver ,  Richard Schenk
ISBN: 9781611862621
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory

The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical...

Author: Clive Barnett
ISBN: 9780820351520
Format: Paperback
$81.71

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy....  Read More >>

Unconscious Contracts: A Psychoanalytical Theory of Society

Unconscious Contracts: A Psychoanalytical Theory of...

Author: Michael Allingham (Oxford University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138938793
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Originally published in 1987 this highly original work explores how the nature and institutions of society are determined...  Read More >>

The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory

The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical...

Author: Clive Barnett
ISBN: 9780820351513
Format: Hardback
$261.23

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy....  Read More >>

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Author: Gustave Le Bon
ISBN: 9781911405511
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Le Bon's seminal work on crowd psychology is hugely relevant today. Critical thought rapidly declines in crowds,...  Read More >>

Building Yanhuitlan: Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta Since 1500

Building Yanhuitlan: Art, Politics, and Religion in...

Author: Alessia Frassani
ISBN: 9780806157566
Format: Hardback
$91.30

Through years of fieldwork in Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling...  Read More >>

Existence, Meaning, Excellence: Aristotelian Reflections on the Meaning of Life

Existence, Meaning, Excellence: Aristotelian Reflections...

Author: Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) ,  Andrius Bielskis
ISBN: 9781138213906
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book addresses the question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s...  Read More >>

Reality Reviewed: Improving your chances in a world emerging

Reality Reviewed: Improving your chances in a world...

Author: Marcus Van Der Erve
ISBN: 9789090304496
Format: Hardback
$113.85

We are into a new cycle of awakening about the true nature of things. Reality is shaped by hidden choreographies...  Read More >>

Cyborg Theology: Humans, Technology and God

Cyborg Theology: Humans, Technology and God

Author: Dr. Scott A. Midson (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781784537876
Format: Hardback
$240.00

The concept of the cyborg, or cybernetic organism, has led to notably creative explorations of the ambiguous relationship...  Read More >>

Sociology through Relation: Theoretical Assessments from the French Tradition

Sociology through Relation: Theoretical Assessments...

Author: Christian Papilloud
ISBN: 9783319650722
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book delivers a top-down understanding of relation as a macro-phenomenon in society. This understanding rests...  Read More >>

Urban America Examined: A Bibliography

Urban America Examined: A Bibliography

Author: Dale Casper
ISBN: 9780815379157
Format: Hardback
$168.00

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Nürnberger Fastnachtspiele und städtische Ordnung

Nürnberger Fastnachtspiele und städtische Ordnung

Author: Beatrice von Lüpke
ISBN: 9783161550041
Format: Hardback
$199.24

Inwiefern lässt sich das mittelalterliche Fastnachtstheater als Auseinandersetzung mit städtischer Ordnung verstehen?...  Read More >>

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering...

Author: Tithi Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9780745399881
Format: Paperback
$41.95

How do childcare, healthcare, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality affect our lives...  Read More >>

Key Writings

Key Writings

Author: Henri Lefebvre ,  Stuart Elden
ISBN: 9781350041677
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century. His...  Read More >>

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Author: Peter Kropotkin ,  Morgan Schell
ISBN: 9781979538336
Format: Paperback
$29.96

In one of his most influential works, Kropotkin challenges classical Darwinism, arguing that in nature, co-operation...  Read More >>

Systemic Racism: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real

Systemic Racism: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy...

Author: Ruth Thompson-Miller ,  Kimberley Ducey
ISBN: 9781137594099
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This volume identifies some of the remaining gaps in extant theories of systemic racism, and in doing so, illuminates...  Read More >>

American Indians and the Trouble with Sovereignty: A Turn Toward Structural Self-Determination

American Indians and the Trouble with Sovereignty: A...

Author: Kouslaa T. Kessler-Mata (University of San Francisco)
ISBN: 9781108415866
Format: Hardback
$248.40

An examination of the concept and practice of contemporary tribal sovereignty which proposes that tribal self-determination...  Read More >>

Cryptographic Crimes: The Use of Cryptography in Real and Fictional Crimes

Cryptographic Crimes: The Use of Cryptography in Real...

Author: Marcel Danesi ,  Michael Arntfield
ISBN: 9781433135217
Format: Hardback
$317.46

This book examines the use of cryptography in both real and fictional crimes – a topic that is rarely broached....  Read More >>

Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking

Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political...

Author: Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, Ireland) ,  Agnes Horvath (University College Cork, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781138214491
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative...  Read More >>

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