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“peter haffner”

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  • Making the Familiar Unfamiliar

    A Conversation with Peter Haffner

    by Zygmunt Bauman, Peter Haffner ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away from addressing the great issues of our time and always strove to interrogate received wisdom and common ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The View from Above

    The Science of Social Space

    by Jeanne Haffner ...
    The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century.In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • National Performance

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  • Pierre Bourdieu

    A Critical Introduction

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  • From Revolution to Ethics

    May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought

    by Julian Bourg ...
    The French revolts of May 1968, the largest general strike in twentieth-century Europe, were among the most famous and colourful episodes of the twentieth century. Julian Bourg argues that during the subsequent decade the revolts led to a remarkable paradigm shift in French thought - the concern for revolution in the 1960s was transformed into a fascination with ethics. Challenging the prevalent ... Read more

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  • After the Deluge

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  • In the Museum of Man

    Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950

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    In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before ... Read more

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