Simulation and Social Theory

Sean Cubitt

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation. It addresses the work of Baudrillard, Deb... Lees meer

Rethinking Sexuality

Diane Richardson

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• `A bold and imaginative attempt to reorganize and restructure social theory's map of sexuality' - Bryan S Turner, University of Cambridge, This though... Lees meer

The Contradictions of Culture

Elizabeth Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Elizabeth Wilson explores the contradictory nature of cultural relations through an examination of fashion, feminism, consumer culture, representation... Lees meer

Undoing Culture

Mike Featherstone

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 39
• Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultur... Lees meer

Liberal Democracy 3.0

Stephen P Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• '... a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political theory, and... Lees meer

Global Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 2
• In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are ... Lees meer

The Media City

Scott McQuire

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• In response to lecturer demand, this is a paperback edition of Scott McQuire's critically acclaimed exploration of the social spaces of modern cities. Lees meer

Cultural Identity and Global Process

Jonathan Friedman, Johnathan Friedman

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 31
• `Friedman has produced a book of importance.... It features many tantalizing insights and observations in the author's attempt to comprehend the globa... Lees meer

Inhuman Nature

Nigel Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• A timely exploration of the social context of environmental change and it's effect on mankind. A unique mix of both social and environmental science a... Lees meer

After Capital

Couze Venn

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This book frames speculation on what postcapitalist societies could be, with regimes of private accumulation replaced by a politics and ethics of a de... Lees meer

Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory

Bridget Fowler

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 48
• This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu′s theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu′s wo... Lees meer

The Cinematic Society

Norman K Denzin

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 34
• Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature, and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic a... Lees meer

Commodifying Bodies

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• With rapid developments in reproductive medicine, transplant ethics and bioethics, a new `ethic of parts' has emerged in which the body is increasingl... Lees meer

Five Bodies

John O'Neill

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. This new edition has been substa... Lees meer

A History and Theory of the Social Sciences

Peter Wagner

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the `organization of modernity′, in relation t... Lees meer

Polar Inertia

Paul Virilio

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Paul Virilio demonstrates how technology has made inertia the defining condition of modernity. An instantaneous present has replaced space and the sov... Lees meer

The Social Construction of Nature

Klaus Eder

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 47
• This book is a unique and agenda-setting interpretation of nature and ecology. Lees meer

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 43
• This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human bod... Lees meer

Simmel on Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Georg Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with his b... Lees meer

Spaces of Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? This book explores the key themes ... Lees meer

Virilio Live

Paul Virilio

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Edited by one of the leading Virilio authority′s, this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio′s work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks... Lees meer

From Being to Living

François Jullien, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 1
• This new English translation of Francois Jullien's work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese though... Lees meer

Individualization

Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two process... Lees meer

Global Modernities

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 36
• Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasi... Lees meer