Social theory books

This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical...  Read More >>

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This book, originally published in 1940, is primarily intended to tell the English reader what is contained in the...  Read More >>

Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book’s...  Read More >>

One reader has called this study, first published in 1984, ‘easily the best book on the relation of Hegel to Marx’....  Read More >>

In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party...  Read More >>

A critique of Marx's work from a Wittgensteinian perspective, using recent scholarship. This book should be of interest...  Read More >>

George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles.’ A century earlier Marx...  Read More >>

Marx’s Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx’s early and late work. It is also a crucial text...  Read More >>

Marx’s written output was massive. Much of it remained unpublished in his own lifetime and there is still no complete...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component...  Read More >>

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, first published in 1962 and corrected and revised for a 1972 edition, examines...  Read More >>

Although Marx’s concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved...  Read More >>

Of all the scholarly work on the countryside done in pre-1917 Russia and in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, that...  Read More >>

This agenda-setting text brings together the biggest names in membership categorization analysis to provide readers...  Read More >>

This agenda-setting text brings together the biggest names in membership categorization analysis to provide readers...  Read More >>

This comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application to the social sciences and humanities...  Read More >>

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This volume focuses on the interconnected formations of patrimonialism, colonialism/empire and capitalism. The articles...  Read More >>

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After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela...  Read More >>

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The role of the policeman in the community and attitudes towards the police are now matters of active public concern....  Read More >>

Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in...  Read More >>