Polity

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude ar...

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude ar...

This highly original and engaging book by French historian Robert Muchembled, is a journey through time and space in search of the changing percept...

This highly original and engaging book by French historian Robert Muchembled, is a journey through time and space in search of the changing percept...

In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the...

In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the...

This path-breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day. Robert Jutte explores a wealth of different...

This path-breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day. Robert Jutte explores a wealth of different...

Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its sooth...

Violence is so much in the news today that we may find it hard to believe that it is less prevalent than it was in the past. But this is exactly wh...

Violence is so much in the news today that we may find it hard to believe that it is less prevalent than it was in the past. But this is exactly wh...

With irrepressible humor, Slavoj Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex “unico...

With irrepressible humor, Slavoj Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex “unico...

For the past eight decades, we have lived in “the American Century” – a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivalled power – be it political, ...

This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in res...

What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because ca...

What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because ca...

The bestselling feminist book, now adapted for a young adult audienceBefore the 1960s, sex before marriage was frowned upon and pornography was dif...

The bestselling feminist book, now adapted for a young adult audienceBefore the 1960s, sex before marriage was frowned upon and pornography was dif...

Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solu...

Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solu...

Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most imp...

Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most imp...

On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In a carefully orch...