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Democratic Problem-Solving: Dialogues in Social Epistemology by Justin Cruickshank 9781786600912
Booksplease Price: £45.75To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science? Can and should science be treated as an exemplar for a more dialogic democracy? Are universities and public... -
The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain: Victorian and Edwardian Inflections Maria Bachman 9781032089102
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary... -
Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology by Daniel Chernilo 9781107129337
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative... -
Altruism in World Religions by Jacob Neusner 9781589010659
Booksplease Price: £53.91In 1830 philosopher Auguste Comte coined the term altruism to provide a general definition for the act of selflessly caring for others. But does this modern conception of sacrificing one's own... -
Mystical Science and Practical Religion: Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Discourse on Science and Technology by Richard Cimino 9780739182277
Booksplease Price: £86.43Mystical Science and Practical Religion examines the religious discourse employed by Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh applied science professionals and students, mainly engineers and Information Technology... -
Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism: Society, Relationship, and Responsibility by Emiliana Mangone 9781648021282
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80The birth of the social sciences and specifically of sociology begets some open questions, among which the debate on altruism and the concept of social solidarity. The term altruism was firstly used... -
A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game by Steve Fuller 9781785276040
Booksplease Price: £21.00A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth condition's deep historical and philosophical roots... -
A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game by Steve Fuller 9781785276033
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth condition's deep historical and philosophical roots... -
Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism: Society, Relationship, and Responsibility by Emiliana Mangone 9781648021299
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The birth of the social sciences and specifically of sociology begets some open questions, among which the debate on altruism and the concept of social solidarity. The term altruism was firstly used... -
Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game by Steve Fuller 9781783086948
Booksplease Price: £25.68'Post-truth' was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in... -
Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism: A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions by Kei Yoshida 9780739173992
Booksplease Price: £91.39Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism: A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions critically assesses cultural interpretivism by scrutinizing five different proponents of it and their solutions to... -
New Directions in the Philosophy of Social Science by Daniel Little 9781783487400
Booksplease Price: £51.70Philosophy matters for the social sciences. Our world faces ever more complex and hazardous problems and, social science ontology and methods need to be adequate to the changing nature of the social... -
Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing Epistemic Agency by Patrick J. Reider 9781783483488
Booksplease Price: £41.36The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes. Primary among these changes is an ever growing appreciation for the role social influences play on one's ability to acquire and assess... -
The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics by Miguel de Beistegui 9781783480388
Booksplease Price: £46.28This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define... -
Towards Teaching in Public: Reshaping the Modern University by Mike Neary 9781472521880
Booksplease Price: £40.79Towards Teaching in Public: Reshaping the Modern University explores how the contested relationships between policy, curriculum and pedagogy are reshaping the modern university and examines the... -
The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain by Thomas Dixon 9780197264263
Booksplease Price: £92.60Altruism' was coined by the French sociologist Auguste Comte in the early 1850s as a theoretical term in his 'cerebral theory' and as the central ideal of his atheistic 'Religion of Humanity'. In The... -
Critical Theory and the Digital by David M. Berry 9781501310966
Booksplease Price: £40.79This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of... -
Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674503809
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.18How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a... -
Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: The Iridescent Thing Alan Bass 9781138556416
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy explores how and why Freud's late work on fetishism led to the beginnings of a re-formulation of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Freud himself,... -
Inequality, Innovation and Reform in Higher Education: Challenges of Migration and Ageing Populations by Maria Slowey 9783030282295
Booksplease Price: £91.98An important backdrop to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals involves consideration of the impact of a 'new demographics' derived from the interaction of two global developments... -
Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History by Gillis J. Harp 9780199977413
Booksplease Price: £39.69The rise of the modern Christian Right, starting with the 1976 Presidential election and culminating in the overwhelming white evangelical support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, has been one... -
The New Evolutionary Sociology: Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Jonathan Turner 9780815387084
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns...