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Jurgen Habermas is one of the leading and one of the most challenging social theorists of our time. During the past several decades he has been dev...

To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in th...

To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in th...

Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communicati...

Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communicati...

This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of Jürgen Habermas's "Philosophical Discourse of Modernity," a book that defen...

This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of Jürgen Habermas's "Philosophical Discourse of Modernity," a book that defen...

This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title 'Gene...

This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title 'Gene...

A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technol...

A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technol...

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies. On the o...

Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the o...

Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the o...

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that s...

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that s...

The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. While analysing the central themes of Arendt's...

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, jo...

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, jo...

As the twenty-first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themselves newly, and rather surprisingly, in the asce...

As the twenty-first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themselves newly, and rather surprisingly, in the asce...

Harvey Sacks's early death in 1975 robbed the social sciences of one of its most original thinkers. Although he published relatively little in his ...

Harvey Sacks's early death in 1975 robbed the social sciences of one of its most original thinkers. Although he published relatively little in his ...

Why are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some a...