Polity

It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, te...

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and ...

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and ...

The Economic Horror is an impassioned book addressed to the dominant political and economic elites in our society. Those in power, Forrester tells ...

Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to developm...

Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to developm...

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poet...

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poet...

In this book David Lyon analyses the various contexts of surveillance activity and offers a balanced account of the influence electronic informatio...

Designed as a textbook for courses in political theory, political sociology and comparative politics, and as a contribution in its own right, this ...

Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is...

Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is...

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred t...

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred t...

The notion of ‘the end’ has long occupied philosophical thought. In light of the horrors of the twentieth century, some writers have gone so far as...

The notion of ‘the end’ has long occupied philosophical thought. In light of the horrors of the twentieth century, some writers have gone so far as...

The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal int...

The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal int...

This new book by two distinguished Italian economists is a highly original contribution to our understanding of the origins and aftermath of the fi...

This new book by two distinguished Italian economists is a highly original contribution to our understanding of the origins and aftermath of the fi...

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be...

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be...

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows some...

Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post-modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on...