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  • Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism

    French Modernist Legacies

    by Yolande Jansen ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research
    This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere may be self-subverting. To flesh out this insight, Jansen draws on the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by the French Jews in the ... Read more

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  • The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe

    Detention, Deportation, Drowning

    Edited by Robin Celikates, Yolande Jansen, Joost de Bloois ...
    Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants.Firstly, the volume analyses the development and political-cultural conditions of current practices and discourses of “bordering,” “illegality,” and “irregularization.” Secondly, it focuses on ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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  • The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

    by Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West, Craig Calhoun ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book
    The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does-or should-religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural ... Read more

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  • Enlightenment's Wake

    Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

    by John Gray ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern whichbrought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wake in 1995 – six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Francis Fukuyama

    and the end of history

    by Howard Williams, David Sullivan, E. Gwynn Matthews ...
    Series Book 1 - Political Philosophy Now
    Fukuyama's concept of the End of History has been one of the most widely debated theories of international politics since the end of the Cold War. This book discusses Fukuyama's claim that liberal democracy alone is able to satisfy the human aspiration for freedom and dignity, and explores the way in which his thinking is part of a philosophical tradition which includes Kant, Hegel and Marx. Two ... Read more

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  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies

    Edited by Michael Freeden, Lyman Tower Sargent, Marc Stears ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the field, combined with an appreciation of the changing complexity of concrete ideologies and the emergence of new ones. Ideologies, ... Read more

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  • Dignity in Adversity

    Human Rights in Troubled Times

    by Seyla Benhabib ...
    The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial.Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader ... Read more

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  • Questions of Travel

    Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

    by Caren Kaplan, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this “traveling theory,” and shows how various discourses of ... Read more

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  • SPACE, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE:

    Reading Henri Lefebvre

    Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, Christian Schmid ...
    In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. ... Read more

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  • The Michel Foucault Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Michel Foucault

    by Ian Dickerson ...
    This book is your ultimate Michel Foucault resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Michel Foucault's whole picture right away. Get countless Michel Foucault facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Michel Foucault ... Read more

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