Teorias Sociológicas

After the success of the hardback, students and academics will welcome the publication of this book in paperback. The aim of the book is to explore the connection between two perspectives that …

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that ‘high’ or ‘late’ modernity is …

This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin’s lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin’s work to our contemporary understanding of …

The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to …

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault’s work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. Mc Nay argues that …

The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. * * This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. …

In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both ‘the human’ and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to …

The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and …

Over its long history, the concept of ideology has acquired a vast and at times incommensurable roster of meanings: positive and negative, analytic and critical, philosophical, psychological and …

As a heatwave hits Paris, the author’s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his …