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Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as h...

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as h...

In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has ...

In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has ...

In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the proc...

In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the proc...

We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evol...

At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni T...

At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni T...

The golden age of Jewish humour flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, enjoyed by Jews and non-Jews alike, but its twilight years ...

It’s August 2015. After twenty-five years of archaeological research in a secluded cave overlooking the Rhône Valley in southern France, Ludovic Sl...

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If ...

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If ...

Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Un...

Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Un...

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays ...

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the...

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the...

At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world...

At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world...

Major environmental problems threaten our planet and evoke within us a need to act – a need to do something, no matter how small, to slow the damag...

Major environmental problems threaten our planet and evoke within us a need to act – a need to do something, no matter how small, to slow the damag...

Winner of the 24th Korean Sociological Association Book AwardMost theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of ...

Winner of the 24th Korean Sociological Association Book AwardMost theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of ...