Polity

Empire and race have become the most discussed – and most problematic – subjects in political and historical discourse. It is now an unquestionable...

The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand w...

The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand w...

What is the source of Obama’s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn th...

What is the source of Obama’s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn th...

The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work,...

The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work,...

What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal �know-how� or �objective facts�? Can science claim special authority based on the o...

What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal �know-how� or �objective facts�? Can science claim special authority based on the o...

Objectivity in journalism is a key topic for debate in media, communication and journalism studies, and has been the subject of intensive historica...

Objectivity in journalism is a key topic for debate in media, communication and journalism studies, and has been the subject of intensive historica...

Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the a...

Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the a...

In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place ...

In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place ...

Today, a new kind of freedom fighter has emerged in our midst: liberal and open-minded, these individuals champion liberty and resent the impositio...

Today, a new kind of freedom fighter has emerged in our midst: liberal and open-minded, these individuals champion liberty and resent the impositio...

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this ...

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this ...

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoc...

Old and New Terrorism provides the most comprehensive account of the evolution of terrorism in the modern world, and a concise and careful analysis...

Old and New Terrorism provides the most comprehensive account of the evolution of terrorism in the modern world, and a concise and careful analysis...