States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity, Paperback - Wendy Brown

Reducere. Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its ...

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary collection of texts that examine the practice of gamification, the use of game design elements in ...

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In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Th...

A prize-winning examination of why nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of global connectedness.Why do walls marking ...

Reducere. Why, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or nea...

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

Reducere. Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops a...

This volume offers the first book-length consideration of American religious freedom advocacy from a rhetorical perspective. In it, fifteen scholar...

The study of teenagers' interaction in the classroom can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton pre...

Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying respons...

Reducere. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Lesli...

This book takes a critical view of the relationship between public discourse and culturally specific definitions of free speech to illuminate the w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

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This book takes a critical view of the relationship between public discourse and culturally specific definitions of free speech to illuminate the w...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Aaron KamugishaNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

DescriptionAcross the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional famil...

In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried H ffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of moder...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Combining archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to...

A magnificent panorama of the creative revolutions of mid-15th-century EuropeFrom roughly the 1430s onward, inspired by developments in the Netherl...

Reducere. " Chen's] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit."--The New York Times Book...

Wendy Cohen, born to atheists shortly after WWII, knew, from her earliest memories, that her parents' atheism was wrong. Because of ongoing, supern...

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

From a leading constitutional scholar, an important study of a powerful mode of government control: the offer of money and other privileges to secu...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susie King TaylorReminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33D United States Colored Troops, Late 1St S. C. Volunteers is t...

Reducere. Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values like courage, power...

The risks in the later stages of careers comparing the welfare states of Germany and the United States since the 1980s.