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Ideas Explained eBook Series

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  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

    30,52 €

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    by Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Read more

    28,72 €

  • The Theory of Communicative Action

    Reason and the Rationalization of Society, Volume 1

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermas's long-awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action. This pathbreaking work is guided by three interrelated concerns: (1) to develop a concept of communicative rationality that is no longer tied to the subjective and individualistic premises of modern social and political theory; (2) to construct a two-level concept ... Read more

    20,99 €

  • Hegel on Self-Consciousness

    Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Robert B. Pippin ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to ... Read more

    16,63 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Richard Rorty

    by Neil Gascoigne ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty’s work. He demonstrates to the general reader and to the student of philosophy alike how the radical views on truth, objectivity and rationality expressed in Rorty’s widely-read essays on contemporary culture and politics derive from his earliest work in the philosophy of mind and language. He avoids the partisanship that ... Read more

    17,99 €

  • Theory of Society, Volume 2

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of ... Read more

    23,63 €

  • Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus

    Introduction to Schizoanalysis

    by Eugene W. Holland ...
    Eugene W. Holland provides an excellent introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus which is widely recognized as one of the most influential texts in philosophy to have appeared in the last thirty years.He lucidly presents the theoretical concerns behind Anti-Oedipus and explores with clarity the diverse influences of Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Kant on the development of ... Read more

    51,01 €

  • The Radical Luhmann

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was a German sociologist and system theorist who wrote on law, economics, politics, art, religion, ecology, mass media, and love. Luhmann advocated a radical constructivism and antihumanism, or "grand theory," to explain society within a universal theoretical framework. Nevertheless, despite being an iconoclast, Luhmann is viewed as a political conservative. Hans-Georg ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • The Theory of Communicative Action

    Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2

    Translated by Thomas McCarthy ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. It is Habermas' "magnum opus", and it is regarded as one of the most important works of modern social thought. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the ... Read more

    20,99 €

  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

    Translated by Christian Lenhardt, Shierry Weber Nicholsen ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of ... Read more

    18,99 €

  • Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that the ideal of authenticity has increasingly turned into a kind of aestheticism and egoistic self ... Read more

    75,30 €