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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Max Weber, Die Okologie Und Der Katholizismus
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£54.15
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG La Phenomenologie Semiopragmatique En Recherche
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£52.25
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Une Autre Introduction Aux Sciences Sociales
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£59.85
Transcript Verlag Complicity: New Perspectives on Collectivity
Book SynopsisOccupy, Commons and other social experiments show: New collectivities are invented and tested. Gesa Ziemer enriches this debate through the insight that in the process, the reinterpretation of old forms of joint action can play an essential role. By looking at complicities in art, science and economy, ongoing collectivization is exposed. Complicity means the committing of an act together, so the definition of criminal law. But for a long time now the concept has also been targeted at legal collective actions - mainly in innovative environments. Individuals act jointly in an intensely affective way - albeit only temporarily, bindingly in common - but still individually, inventively - and at the same time in a goal-oriented manner.
£71.19
Transcript Verlag Competition in World Politics – Knowledge,
Book SynopsisThe "return of great power competition" between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But why do we think of world politics in terms of "competition"? Which information and which rules enable states and other actors in world politics to "compete" with one another? Which competitive strategies do they pursue in the complex environment of modern world politics? This cutting-edge edited collection discusses these questions from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. It offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions of economics, technology and prestige.
£36.54
Transcript Verlag Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying
Book SynopsisImmanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein's theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The presented interdisciplinary approach of this anthology thereby intends to highlight the broader value of Wallerstein's ideas, even almost five decades after the famous sociologist and economic historian first expressed them.
£28.89
Transcript Verlag Sound Formations: Towards a Sociological
Book SynopsisIs it possible to work with sound in sociology rather than being about sound? Can there be a "sonic sociology"? Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Following new materialist and speculative philosophies, this study is thus a combination of sociological theory, philosophical thought and aesthetic practices, not understood as discrete fields of inquiry, but co-constituting each other. It also features an audio chapter, "feeding-back" the sonic experimentations at the core of the research in new and engaging ways.
£37.39
Transcript Publishing The Construction of Social Health Systems
£41.24
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Sarcophagus of Identity: Tribalism,
Book SynopsisGiven the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skellys book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant and problematic conceptual bases for self and identity. Inspired in part by his lawsuit against the US Secretary of Defense while serving as an active duty military officer, Skelly argues that our use of language in the construction of identities is unwitting, unreflective, and has engendered horrific consequences for tens of millions of humans. In contrast, he demonstrates our need to overcome sectarian modes of thinking and to engage in much deeper forms of solidarity with others by foregrounding a species identity. This book offers not only an academic reflection on the concept of identity but one that delves into the nature of the self and identity by drawing on Skelly's concrete experience of attempting to present a self-identity opposed to war in the face of the political, psychological, religious, and legal arguments put forth in a year-long legal battle with the United States government. One consequence is that Skelly argues that to create a new and more pacific human sensibility we must help ourselves and others to gain sovereignty over our social worlds and the definition of 'who we are', by arming individuals with the tools necessary to overcome the definitions and categorisations we are subjected to in the construction of traditional notions of 'identity'.
£27.99
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Demodernization – A Future in the Past
Book SynopsisMedical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plantsthese images became common at the turn of the 21st century in many once modern civilized countries. In quite a few of them, long-time neighbours came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered differences of religion, language, or origin. Civil nationalism gave way to tribal, ethnic, and confessional conflict. Rational arguments of geopolitical nature have been replaced by claims of self-righteousness and moral superiority. These snapshots are not random. They are manifestations of a phenomenon called demodernization that can be observed from the banks of the Neva to the banks of the Euphrates, from the deserts of Central Asia to the English countryside and all the way to the city of Detroit. Demodernization is a growing trend today, but it also has a history. Seventeen scholars, including historians, philosophers, sociologists, and archaeologists, offer their well substantiated views of demodernization. The book is divided into three parts dedicated to conceptual debates as well as historical and contemporary cases. It book provides a wealth of empirical materials and conceptual insights that provide a multi-faceted approach to demodernization.
£41.25
Verlag Barbara Budrich The City: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to
Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch wird der aktuelle Stand der Stadtforschung in den relevanten Disziplinen verständlich dargestellt. Der Autor bietet Einblicke in die Sichtweisen der wichtigsten Disziplinen, die sich mit Stadt-Thematiken beschäftigen, wie Soziologie, Geographie, Raum- und Stadtplanung, Geschichte, Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft. Dabei berücksichtigt er auch die Sprachphilosophie und zeigt die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen von stadtbezogenen Begriffen in einem Dutzend Wortsprachen auf. Ein Überblick über die zentralen Ansätze und Theorien sowie deren praktische Anwendung ermöglicht es den Lesern und Leserinnen, ein vertrautes Thema aus neuen Perspektiven zu betrachten.Trade ReviewNicht nur ist das Buch von Uwe Prell empfehlenswert, aus meiner Sicht ist es ein sehr aktuelles Standardwerk zu den Thematiken der Stadt, vor allem dank des interdisziplinären Ansatzes für mich ein „Augenöffner“. Günther Bachmann, Stadtforschung und Statistik 1/2023Table of ContentsTHE CITY IS THE ANSWER. BUT WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? NOTE ON THE ENGLISH EDITION I. THE DIFFICULTIES OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY II. ON THE BENEFITS OF A TOOL III. THEORY A. The science of the city 1. The big picture (urbanism) 2. City as society (sociology and urban sociology) 3. City as market (economics and urban economics) 4. City as natural environment ((urban) geography, urban environmental management, and climate research) 5. City as design space (spatial planning, urban planning, architecture, and urban morphology) 6. City as policy (law) 7. City as memory space (history) 8. City as hope and disappointment (philosophy) 9. Ways out of no man’s land (political science) 10. The city: a puzzle B. The grand narratives 1. The good city (Aristotle) 2. The multifunctional city (Werner Sombart) 3. Politics, the market, and city types (Max Weber) 4. The blasé city dweller (Georg Simmel) 5. The dense city (Lewis Wirth and the Chicago School) 6. No city (Jürgen Friedrichs) 7. The global city (Saskia Sassen) 8. The ordinary city (Ash Amin and Stephen Graham) 9. The open city (Richard Sennett) 10. The experts’ insights C. The wisdom of languages: the city is… 1. The city is dense infrastructure (Egyptian) 2. The city is citizenship (Greek) 3. The city is power politics (Latin) 4. The city is structured densification (Spanish) 5. The city is lifestyle (French) 6. The city is relevance (English) 7. The city is rights (German) 8. The city is the centre (Russian) 9. The city is civilization (Arabic) 10. The city is prosperity (Hindi) 11. The city is the economy (Chinese) 12. The city is a hub (Japanese) 13. The genes of the city IV. PRACTICE A. Zooming in B. Terms, concepts, and city types 1. Megacity 2. Global city 3. Capital city 4. Arrival city 5. Smart city 6. Neoliberal city 7. Virus city 8. Shrinking city and lost city 9. Terms, concepts, and city types: valuable patterns? C. Urban issues 1. Immigration and emigration 2. Housing and living 3. Society and the economy 4. Movement and standstill 5. Analogue and digital 6. City and countryside 7. City and world 8. City and environment 9. Diversity and reciprocities V. OUR FUTURE WILL BE DECIDED IN AND WITH THE CITY Literature Index
£20.70
Transcript Verlag Lived Temporalities – Exploring Duration in
Book SynopsisIn contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness. Insights into the ways in which this dynamic unfolds enable one to affirm human temporalities in their potential difference to the temporalities of global capitalism. The book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporalities on markets, in buses and in traditional subsistence in Guatemala, and a theoretical exploration of these through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and inter-relational approaches within psychoanalysis.
£28.89
Sternberg Press Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm’s multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.This volume critically profiles, contextualizes, and theoretically elaborates the unique practice of the UK-based German artist Kathrin Böhm. Combining visual and textual material, it offers an overview of Böhm's exceptional modus operandi that is rooted in a highly original artistic synthesis of a range of practices. Over the last three decades, Böhm has expanded the terms of socially engaged ways of working to an unprecedented scale and breadth by producing complex organizational, spatial, visual, and economic forms. These often entail the production of complex infrastructures, manifested via projects such as Culture is a Verb (2018–21), The Centre for Plausible Economies (2018–ongoing), Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks (2014–ongoing) and the Eco-Nomadic School (2010–ongoing). The book follows a major mid-career exhibition at The Showroom, London, in 2021.Offering a significant addition to debates on contemporary art and architecture, social action, and public culture, Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life brings together critical reflections by internationally acclaimed contributors. Spanning a wide range of critical positions and disciplines, these include Dave Beech, Céline Condorelli, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Wapke Feenstra, Katherine Gibson, Joon-Lynn Goh, Lily Hall, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Grace Ndiritu, Gerrie van Noord, Paul O’Neill, Doina Petrescu, Gregory Sholette and THEMM!!, Kuba Szreder, Gavin Wade, Mick Wilson, Stephen Wright, and Franciska Zólyom. In addition, material derived from Böhm's international networks and projects provides an in-depth impression of the deeply ingrained collaborative and durational nature of her way of working.Photographic, diagrammatic, and typographical imagery runs through the book, demonstrating the rich visual and spatial languages embedded in Böhm's work. This visual register of the book is therefore much more than a series of illustrations and acts as a counterpoint to, and extension of, the ideas elaborated in the texts.Copublished by HDK-Valand; PUBLICS; The Showroom
£21.38
Trivent Publishing The Bioethics of the Crazy Ape
Book SynopsisThe Bioethics of the "Crazy Ape" collects a wide range of bioethical topics. Bioethical questions are eternal by nature, although our technologized times transform old issues in forms never before experienced. Just like the famous scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi believed in his time, we also believe that all the contributing authors recognised their moral responsibility in adding new approaches to the continuum of each debate. Although this responsibility has became increasingly complex, we must avoid to become barriers of the scientific development. Bioethics as an applied field of philosophy should always try to establish a framework for a sustainable world: in daily clinical practice, in cases of human experiments, and (not least) in the natural environment.Table of Contents Introduction By Oguz Kelemen, Gergely Tari PART I. ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES 1. The Dignity of Apes, Humans, and AI, by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner 2. Human Dignity in Genetic Engineering (With Some Hungarian Examples), by Vivien Szútor PART II. BIOETHICS, ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY 3. Please geben vôtre consentimiento! Informed Decision-Making in Intercultural Context, by Attila Dobos 4. Can Kant's Position Be Guessed in a Debate on Access to New Technical Advances in Medicine?, by Daniela Reisz, Alexandra Anghel 5. Children's Bioethics, Theory of Attachment, and P4C, by Florin Lobont 6. Implementing Purity and Combating Impurity: Biopower and Totalist Movements, by Mihai Murariu 7. The Psy-complex: Out of the Techno-Scientific Paradigm?, by Attila Bánfalvi 8. Euthanasia in the Contemporary World: What Role Does Faith Play in the Choice to Legalize Assisted Dying Practices?, by Sorin Grigore Vulc?nescu PART III. GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS 9. A Critique of the Environmental Ethical Critique of Christian Anthropocentrism, by Ferenc Hérány 10. Ecocentrism or the Attempt to Leave Antropocentricity, by Dejan Donev 11. Debating Public Policy: Ethics, Politics and Economics of Wildlife Management in Southern Africa, by Matthew Crippen, John Salevurakis 12. The Role of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in the Controversy over Genetically-Modified Food, by Ivica Kelam PART IV. ETHICAL AND LEGAL CHALLENGES IN MEDICINE AND RESEARCH 13. UDBHR: An Interpretation in the Indian Medico-legal and Bioethical Context, by Anamika Krishnan 14. An Evaluation of Faith-Based Perspectives on the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Patients in a Permanent Vegetative State, by Kartina A. Choong, Mahmood Chandia 15. Reproductive Autonomy and Genetic Technologies: Ethical and Legal Implications Related to Sex Selection, by Narine Harutyunyan 16. The Medicalization of Childbirth: Ethical and Legal Issues of Negative Childbirth Experience, by Gergely Tari, Csaba Hamvai 17. Prophylactic Mastectomy on Demand, by Csaba Hamvai, Gergely Tari, Melinda Csenki 18. Truth Disclosure in the Age of Technologized Medicine, by Coralia Cotoraci, Alciona Sasu, Mircea Onel, Cristina Ghib-Para 19. Ethical Challenges Related to Marketing Drugs, by Miroslav Radenkovi?, Ivana Lazarevi?, Marko Stojanovi?, Tanja Jovanovi? 20. Disclosing Research Results to Participants: Is There a Consensus?, by Adél Tóth
£101.70
Trivent Publishing Heading Towards Humans Again: Aspects of
Book SynopsisBioethics has become an important part of everyday dynamics, encompassing both clinical and research ethics. This edited collection aims to challenge some critical cornerstones of today's contemporary bioethical concerns and issues. The individual chapters were prepared by esteemed scholars with international background in their specialties. Nowadays technological revolution is reaching a whole new level, continuously challenging us to define what is human. Keeping this in mind, the authors provided comprehensive and thoughtful views on different bioethical issues, including cultural and social influences on contemporary bioethics, posthumanism and transhumanism, death, the critical importance of informed consent, prenatal genetic testing, gene and cell therapy, mandatory vaccinations, cannabis use, antidoping concerns, treatment of rare diseases and pain management, and finally educational and legislative lines of reasoning.Table of Contents Introduction, by Miroslav Radenkovi? CHAPTER 1. Attila Dobos, Neuroanthropological Turn in Bioethics? Insights from Interculturality CHAPTER 2. Alexander Kremer, Transhumanism or Pragmatism? CHAPTER 3. Oana Iftime, ?tefana-Maria Petru?, The Danger of False Promises and Hopes in the New Age of Science: The Case of Gene and Cell Therapy CHAPTER 4. Miroslav Radenkovi?, Informed Consent. The Current Standing CHAPTER 5. Raluca Dumache, Alexandra Enache, Informed Consent and Medical Decision Making: Ethical Challenges CHAPTER 6. Branislava Medi? Brki?, Miroslav Radenkovi?, Katarina Savi? Vujovi?, Nevena Divac, Sonja Vu?kovi?, Radan Stojanovi?, Dragana Srebro, Miloš Basailovi?, Milica Prostran, Pharmacotherapy of Rare Diseases in Serbia: Bioethical Challenges and How to Overcome Them CHAPTER 7. Katarina Savi? Vujovi?, Miroslav Radenkovi?, Branislava Medi?, Sla?ana Mihajlovi?, Sonja Vu?kovi?, Nevena Divac, Radan Stojanovi?, Dragana Srebro, Miloš Basailovi?, Milica Prostran, Ethical Issues Regarding Chronic Pain From the Perspective of a Clinical Pharmacologist CHAPTER 8. Danijela Vu?evi?, Janko Samardži?, Bojan Jorga?evi?, Igor Panti?, Jovana Paunovi? Panti?, Tatjana Radosavljevi?, The Medicalization of Cannabis as an Ethical Challenge in the 21st Century CHAPTER 9. Luboslava Kostova, Is There a Moral Reproductive Behaviour in the Context of Prenatal Diagnosis and Care? CHAPTER 10. Antoanela Naaji, Gratiana Chicin, Ethical Challenges in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination CHAPTER 11. Danijela Vu?evi?, Igor Panti?, Janko Samardži?, Bojan Jorga?evi?, Jovana Paunovi? Panti?, Tatjana Radosavljevi?, Ethical Issues and Spiritual Challenges in End-Of-Life Care CHAPTER 12. Jelena Roganovi?, The Lack of Dental Ethics Education in the Undergraduate Curricula in Dental Schools of Serbian Universities CHAPTER 13. Jelena Šantri?, The Challenges of the Double Role of the Ethical Commission at the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Belgrade CHAPTER 14. Levente Nagy, Sports and the Ethical Implications of Performance Enhancing Substances
£86.40
Rawat Sociology of Globization: Perspectives from India
Book SynopsisLiving in the era of globalisation with movements of capital, humans, goods, and ideas transforming socio-cultural life. Focus on globalisation beyond North-South capital flow, exploring its historical roots and reverse global flows. Diverse disciplinary perspectives contribute to expanding the discourse on globalisation.
£30.00
Rawat Ethnicity, Movement and Social Structure:
Book SynopsisEthnicity has been growing rapidly, and it has brought together the differentiated ethnic groups as a strong united force, which continues to have frequent conflicts with the local governments.
£23.62
Anagrama Lo Que Estábamos Buscando
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£11.54
Anagrama Dignos de Ser Humanos
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£22.21
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El peligro de la historia única / The Danger of a
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£10.68
Plaza Y Valdes DERECHOS POSITIVOS LOS
£31.00
Peeters Publishers Building Towers: Perspectives on Globalisation
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers delivered at a colloquium on globalisation at the UFSIA in 2002. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in the context of which several perspectives on globalisation are developed. The starting-point of the colloquium was a paper by Hendrik Opdebeeck with the title 'The globalisation discourse and the waning of ethical endeavour'. The issue at stake in this text is a personalistic approach towards a socially and economically most pressing phenomenon. This approach also occurs within a critical atmosphere which clearly points to distortions with respect to ethics. Within a personalistic perspective, founded in a Christian tradition of ethical discourse, it is not a sheer adaptation or legitimisation that is opted for, but a profound and critical reading of the signs of the times.Table of ContentsPrologue: Introduction: Globalisation and the Tragedy of Ethics: Christianity and Globalisation: Community Building and Economic Globalisation: Towards a Sustainable Global Welfare Society: On the Urgency of Broadening the Ethic Dimension in Globalisation: Does Globalisation Make Us Reconsider Marx: Globalism and the Idea of Europe: Culture versus Globalisation in Europe: Globalisation and the Human Genome Project: Globalisation and Securitisation of Risk Bearing: Technology and Globalisation: Epilogue.
£42.12
HarperCollins India Being the Change: In the Footsteps of the Mahatma
Book SynopsisThis book tells the stories of social justice warriors who are quietly powering the country''s progress by being agents of real change. Words Mahatma Gandhi lived by-such as ''India lives in villages and to serve the poor we will have to serve in the villages'' or that ''truth may get troubled but it never gets defeated''-are their moral compass. They have shown by personal example how adopting Bapu''s ideology as a way of life can be personally enriching and socially beneficial. The people in this book mostly work away from the spotlight. Through entirely Gandhian ways, they have proved that his methods, such as satyagraha, still help effect real change and progress for the people most in need. Many have won awards and recognition, but largely their stirring stories have remained untold-a gap that Being the Change seeks to fill.
£13.99
Primus Books Research as Realization: Science, Spirituality
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£47.66
Springer Verlag, Singapore Confucianism and the Chinese Self: Re-examining Max Weber’s China
Book SynopsisSetting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China.Trade Review“The book is an interesting and reliable contribution to the discourses on contemporary Chinese sociology of religion; as a result, it is warmly recommended to all specialists in the field and to the general reader of Chinese culture, as well.” (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 45 (2), June, 2019)“Max Weber's fascination with China has been well documented … . It is a must read for both Weber scholars and China specialists, and will be of great interest to comparative-historical sociologists. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students/faculty.” (J. Li, Choice, Vol. 55 (9), May, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- China in Germany.- Confucianism.- Daoism.- Self-interest.- Magic.- Capitalism.
£75.99
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Social Responsibility and Its Role
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. Social responsibility is a fundamental pillar of building a society and maintaining stable community life. Without it, public life becomes chaos, the law of the jungle prevails, philanthropy is non-existent, and selfishness and individualism dictate the behaviour and actions of individuals. Professor Hala Al-Saeed takes readers on an enriching journey to explore social responsibly in all its many facets based on extensive field experience and a review of academic literature on the concept.
£8.99
NUS Press Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964
Book SynopsisOn the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to a categorization of patriotic exemplarity devised by Ho Chi Minh, ""avant-garde workers,"" ""exemplary soldiers"" and ""new heroes"" would fill the ranks of a ""new model society,"" one in which political virtue would serve as the principle to mobilize the masses. This study presents and analyzes the process by which ""new heroes"" were invented. It first develops a picture of what constituted heroes in Vietnamese tradition and history, and then shows how the new model, effectively a Sino-Soviet import, was imposed, only to be slowly distorted by its own cultural rationale and by specific objectives. Far from being a transitory phenomenon, this model has contributed for more than half a century to the reconstruction of the national imagination and the development of a new collective, patriotic and communist memory in Vietnam.
£30.48
Information Age Publishing A Systems Approach to Public Administration and
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£40.15
Information Age Publishing A Systems Approach to Public Administration and
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