Polity

The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women—their most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as w...

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scient...

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scient...

What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of hu...

What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of hu...

In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active partic...

In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active partic...

Friends can help to form the basic structure of our lives but we very often take them for granted. Friends can sometimes be regarded as an oppressi...

Friends can help to form the basic structure of our lives but we very often take them for granted. Friends can sometimes be regarded as an oppressi...

All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questio...

Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy was a major reinterpretation of psychoanalysis and its philosophical significance, but Ricoeur also wrote man...

Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy was a major reinterpretation of psychoanalysis and its philosophical significance, but Ricoeur also wrote man...

‘Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however,...

‘Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however,...

From the forests of Yellowstone to the steppes of the Haut-Var, the French philosopher and environmentalist Baptiste Morizot invites us to develop ...

From the forests of Yellowstone to the steppes of the Haut-Var, the French philosopher and environmentalist Baptiste Morizot invites us to develop ...

Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of belief...

Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of belief...

The texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger’s thinking on language and art from the late 19...

Fifty million people in the world today are victims of forced relocation caused by wars and violence. Whole new countries are being created, occupi...

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly bein...

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly bein...

This volume brings together Habermas's key writings on language and communication. Including some classic texts as well as new material which is pu...

The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on the Linguistic Foundatio...