Polity
In Praise of Literature
PolityIn this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and ...
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PolityWhy bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it...
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PolityWhy bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it...
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PolityIn this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our...
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PolityIn this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our...
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PolityWhat kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest ...
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PolityWhat kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest ...
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PolityAgainst the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...
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PolityAgainst the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...
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PolityThe earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boo...
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PolityIn Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great inte...
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PolityIn Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great inte...
View full detailsIn Search of Africa(s)
PolityThis important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postco...
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PolityThis important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postco...
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PolityThe world cannot address its pressing environmental problems without China. But can China be relied upon as a steadfast steward of nature, as its l...
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PolityThe world cannot address its pressing environmental problems without China. But can China be relied upon as a steadfast steward of nature, as its l...
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PolityWe live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself ...
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PolityWe live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself ...
View full detailsIn the King's Shadow
PolityIt is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so char...
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PolityIt is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so char...
View full detailsIn the Name of Sharks
PolityTwenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentl...
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PolityTwenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentl...
View full detailsIn the Presence of Schopenhauer
PolityThe work of Michel Houellebecq – one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time – is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. Wh...
View full detailsIn the Presence of Schopenhauer
PolityThe work of Michel Houellebecq – one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time – is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. Wh...
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