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The Governance of Knowledge by Nico Stehr 9781412864091
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $61.46Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico... -
Understanding Society and Knowledge Nico Stehr 9781802203783
Booksplease Price: $177.66Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge, rather than nature, violence, or power, provides the basis of and driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how... -
Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges by Nico Stehr
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.27Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is... -
Understanding Society and Knowledge Nico Stehr 9781802203806
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $53.90Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge, rather than nature, violence, or power, provides the basis of and driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how... -
Experts: The Knowledge and Power of Expertise Nico Stehr 9781138822917
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the... -
Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology by Nico Stehr
RRP: $140.38Booksplease Price: $124.96This book argues that new technologies and society's response to them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge politics." Nico Stehr describes Western society's response to a... -
Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st Century Perspective by Nico Stehr 9781138511439
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52The relationship of knowledge and liberties in modern societies presents a multitude of fascinating issues that deserve to be explored more systematically. The production of knowledge is dynamic, and... -
Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society by Nico Stehr 9781138507708
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $87.11"While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full... -
Knowledge Capitalism Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University, Germany) 9781032282909
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $98.81In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era. It is not only because of the... -
Information, Power, and Democracy: Liberty is a Daughter of Knowledge by Nico Stehr 9781107120754
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $206.66The link between liberty and knowledge is neither static nor simple. Until recently the mutual support between knowledge, science, democracy and emancipation was presupposed. Recently, however, the... -
Science In Society: Climate Change And Climate Policies by Nico Stehr 9781800613515
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $208.98Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr, the authors of this anthology, reflect on the popular and scientific perception and construction of the phenomenon climate, climate change, climate policy and the... -
The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into Contemporary Societies by Nico Stehr 9783110131758
Booksplease Price: $208.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110131758Author Nico StehrFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint De GruyterPublisher De... -
Money: A Theory of Modern Society Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University, Germany) 9780367354657
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Since the publication of Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive... -
Nico Stehr: Pioneer in the Theory of Society and Knowledge by Marian T. Adolf 9783030083434
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $190.92This unique volume brings together a selection of the most important texts of Nico Stehr for the first time and puts them in dialogue with original research that draws on his prolific work. Covering... -
Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge and Science Nico Stehr 9781412804745
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $90.44The sociology of knowledge is generally seen as part of the sociology of cultural products. Along with the sociology of science, it explores the social character of science and in particular the... -
The World We Have Created: Climate, Democracy and Knowledge Nico Stehr 9781041159582
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82Addressing the complex interplay between climate change, democratic governance, and scientific knowledge in the Anthropocene era, this book focuses on how political systems respond to the global... -
Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products by Nico Stehr 9781594514579
RRP: $132.58Booksplease Price: $118.27Nothing affects modern society more than the decisions made in the marketplace, especially (but not only) the judgments of consumers. Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern societies with the... -
Climate And Society: Climate As Resource, Climate As Risk Nico Stehr (Zeppelin Univ, Germany & Univ Of Alberta, Canada) 9789814280532
RRP: $142.35Booksplease Price: $127.92Climate and Society presents from a transdisciplinary view, climate and its changes, impact and perception. The history of climate and its different approaches over time - which are anthropocentric... -
Economic Life in the Modern Age Werner Sombart 9781138509368
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.82Werner Sombart (1863-1941) may well have been the most famous and controversial social scientist in Germany during the early twentieth century. Highly influential, his work and reputation have been... -
Conservatism:Intro Sociol V11 by Karl Mannheim
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52First published in 1986. This is Volume XI of Mannheim's collected works. The present edition of Conservatism rests on a typescript of the text found among the papers, after his death in 1980, of... -
Who Owns Knowledge?: Knowledge and the Law by David E. Price 9781138517950
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $87.11Who Owns Knowledge? explores the emerging linkages between the extension of knowledge and the law. It anticipates that the legal system will not only be called upon to adjudicate in matters of... -
Sociological Theory in Transition by Mark L. Wardell
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $58.13Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the 'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society,... -
Structures Of Thinking V10 by 9780415867917
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52First published in 1982. This is Volume X of Mannheim's collected works. The texts to be presented in this edition had been in the possession of the late Dr Paul Kecskemeti, who was a close associate... -
Society of Terror: Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps Paul Neurath 9781594510953
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.86During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners... -
Sociological Theory in Transition by Mark L. Wardell 9781138782563
Booksplease Price: $169.77Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the 'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society,... -
Modern German Sociology by Volker Meja 9780367376178
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $63.14Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II. Included are sections from such out-standing... -
Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: A New Approach to Climate Politics by Theresa Birgitta Bronnum Scavenius
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $69.81In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change... -
Knowledge: Is Knowledge Power? by Marian Adolf
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge... -
Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute by Volker Meja
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $87.11Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most... -
Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology by Carlo Mongardini 9781138514256
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.82This volume offers scholars of sociology and allied areas the fruits of an international conference on the contributions of the eminent Robert K. Merton. The assessment, as good in content as well as... -
Making Sense of Expertise: Theory, Frameworks, and Applications for Contemporary Society by Reiner Grundmann
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $63.14Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework... -
Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate Alexander Ruser (Zeppelin University) 9781472483959
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.54Political compromise is emerging as a preferred solution for numerous apparently intractable problems. Many have pointed to the rising degree of political polarisation around issues such as climate...