Polity

Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those ...

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientist...

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientist...

Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the begi...

Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the begi...

We celebrate, talk about, and worry a great deal about transitions in life. Going to college, having a first child, losing a job, and retiring cons...

We celebrate, talk about, and worry a great deal about transitions in life. Going to college, having a first child, losing a job, and retiring cons...

‘There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan’s essential being from within – that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relati...

‘There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan’s essential being from within – that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relati...

The rise of blogs and social media provide a public platform for people to share information online. This trend has facilitated an industry of self...

The rise of blogs and social media provide a public platform for people to share information online. This trend has facilitated an industry of self...

In this exciting new book, Rieger and Leibfried argue persuasively for the need to understand developments in welfare and social provision alongsid...

In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a dec...

In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a dec...

We are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vocifer...

Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. With...

Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. With...

There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes ou...

There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes ou...

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings...

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings...

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern so...

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern so...

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of th...