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Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years...

Richard Rorty is one of the most influential and provocative figures in contemporary intellectual life. He argues that many of philosophy's traditi...

Richard Rorty is one of the most influential and provocative figures in contemporary intellectual life. He argues that many of philosophy's traditi...

Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty’s work. He demonstrates to the general reader and to the student of phil...

Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty’s work. He demonstrates to the general reader and to the student of phil...

Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the...

What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conf...

What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conf...

This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty as they have been analysed in sociology and related soci...

This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty as they have been analysed in sociology and related soci...

Ethics is commonly assumed to be the one realm in which luck and risk do not intrude. It has been said that 'While one can be lucky in one's busine...

Ethics is commonly assumed to be the one realm in which luck and risk do not intrude. It has been said that 'While one can be lucky in one's busine...

This new work from Thomas Gallant provides a highly original analysis of the ancient Greek domestic economy. The nature of their environment togeth...

Now available in paperback, this is the first biography of Roland Barthes - one of the most important European intellectuals of the postwar years. ...

This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theoris...

Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout histor...

Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the prese...

Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the prese...

This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifest...

This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifest...

Andrew Leach’s Rome is the first book in Polity’s exciting new ‘Cities in World History’ series, which aims to provide the general reader and trave...

Andrew Leach’s Rome is the first book in Polity’s exciting new ‘Cities in World History’ series, which aims to provide the general reader and trave...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated de...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated de...