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“markus nauser”

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  • Human Ecology

    Edited by Markus Nauser, Dieter Steiner ...
    We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions. The ecological rationality of modern society, and of science in particular, is in question. Science still responds to crises at the level of technocratic expertise, and still treats society as an adaptive system.By bringing together a number of integrative approaches to the human-environment problem, Human Ecology shapes a more radical, ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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    A New Theory of Modernity

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Modernity and Self-Identity

    Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Constitution of Society

    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... Read more

    $36.00 CAD

  • Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

    Tracing the Socio-Material

    by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk ...
    The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural or postmodern. The works of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard have variously found their way ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • 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

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Value of Privacy

    by Beate Roessler ...
    This new book by Beate Rössler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue: the issue of privacy and the relations between the private and the public.Rössler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought to value it. In the context of modern, liberal societies, Rössler develops a theory of the private which links privacy and autonomy in a constitutive ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Trust and Power

    Translated by John Raffan, Kathryn Rooney, Howard Davis ...
    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in what he refers to as ideologies – accounts which use implicit beliefs in particular conceptions of human nature to explain and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Timewatch

    The Social Analysis of Time

    by Barbara Adam ...
    In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common-sense and social science understanding. ... Read more

    $31.00 CAD

  • Territorial Conflicts in World Society

    Modern Systems Theory, International Relations and Conflict Studies

    Edited by Stephen Stetter ...
    Series series New International Relations
    By bringing into dialogue modern systems theory and international relations, this text provides theoretically innovative and empirically rich perspectives on conflicts in world society.This collection contrasts Niklas Luhmann’s theory of world society in modern systems theory with more classical approaches to the study of conflicts, offering a fresh perspective on territorial conflicts in ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Constructivism and International Relations

    Alexander Wendt and his Critics

    Edited by Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander ...
    Series series New International Relations
    This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt.Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are informed by a wide array of contending theories ranging from realism to poststructuralism. The collected ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Nexus of Practices

    Connections, constellations, practitioners

    Edited by Allison Hui, Theodore Schatzki, Elizabeth Shove ...
    The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines. The book addresses key issues facing practice theory, expands practice theory’s conceptual repertoire, and explores new empirical terrain. With each ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD