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Year of Publication: 2017
Bini AdamczakYear of Publication: 2017
Relational Revolutions
1917, 1968 and Revolutions to Come
It has now been more than 100 years since the Russian Revolution began. The student movement of 1968, on the other hand, is more present, since closer, in our historical consciousness. Time then, to consider the events of 1917 through the prism of 1968 and bring both revolutions into a relationship of mutual critique. While 1917 was focused on the nation, 1968 targeted the individual. In the...
Year of Publication: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019
Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism
A Lecture
On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical...
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Year of Publication: 1950
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1950
The Authoritarian Personality
The studies presented here were guided by the hypothesis that the political, economic and social convictions of an individual often formed an extensive and coherent thought pattern, held together by...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2005
Dream Protocols
In early January 1956, Adorno noted: »Our dreams are not simply connected to one another by virtue of being ›ours‹ but also because they form a continuum, belong to a consistent world,...
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Year of Publication: 1997
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1997
Collected Writings in 20 Volumes
As the primary figure behind Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, as an essayist and critic of society, a music theorist and composer, a sociologist and high-school teacher, Adorno made a...
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Year of Publication: 1994
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1994
Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments
Volume 3: Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory
The extensive edition of Adorno’s posthumous writings expands the Collected Writings and together with the fragmentary works collects editions of his lectures, papers, and discussions as well as...
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Year of Publication: 2008
Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried KracauerYear of Publication: 2008
Correspondence 1923-1966
Among the great letter exchanges, the one between Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer is certainly the most intimate.
The resonance of a passionate friendship which connected both parties...
The resonance of a passionate friendship which connected both parties...
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Year of Publication: 2022
Carolin Amlinger, Oliver NachtweyYear of Publication: 2022
Offended Freedom
Aspects of Libertarian Authoritarianism
COVID deniers with flower necklaces, artists questioning scientific findings, journalists staging themselves as rebels against alleged gags: Libertarian authoritarians have found their way...
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Year of Publication: 2021
Carolin AmlingerYear of Publication: 2021
Writing
A Sociology of Literary Work
There is no need to fear the end of literary culture – but the way by which books are made is changing. With a focus on the recent history of the book market, Carolin Amlinger provides a comprehensive inventory of aesthetic economies that also allows a glimpse into the future of the book business. At the same time, the study condenses the diverse working and living environments of...
Year of Publication: 2013
Dirk BaeckerYear of Publication: 2013
Observers Amongst Themselves
A Theory of Culture
The philosophers of German Idealism – Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel – each developed concepts that may be regarded as prolegomena to a theory of the observer. These culminated, especially in...
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Year of Publication: 2024
Jens BeckertYear of Publication: 2024
Selling the Future
Why the Fight against Climate Change Is in Danger of Failing
A guide for creating realistic climate policies
»Climate change is a question of power and culture. Making it a topic of study for the social sciences.«
We have known...
We have known...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2007
World Risk Society
On the Search for Lost Security
In 1986, the year of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, Suhrkamp Verlag published Risk Society by Ulrich Beck, a classic of sociological diagnostic, translated into over thirty...
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Year of Publication: 1986
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 1986
Risk Society
Towards a New Modernity
This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic.
Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the »risk society«. The changing nature of...
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Year of Publication: 2002
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2002
Power in the Global Age
A New Global Political Economy
This brilliant [...] book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil...
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Year of Publication: 2004
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2004
The Cosmopolitan Perspective or: War is Peace
In his book Power and Countervailing Power in the Global Age, Ulrich Beck analysed the question and the dilemma of the legitimity of power in the global era. In his new publication, he...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimYear of Publication: 2005
The Normal Chaos of Love
This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for...
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Year of Publication: 1997
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 1997
Children of Freedom
Together with Anthoy Giddens' Beyond Left and Right, Ulrich Beck's new book launches the series Second Modernity, of which he is editor. Beck is concerned in this study with...
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Year of Publication: 2004
Ulrich Beck, Edgar GrandeYear of Publication: 2004
Cosmopolitan Europe
Rethinking Europe – that is the theme of this book. The cosmopolitan view on Europe, conceived in notions, could well be the starting point for new action opportunities.
This book...
This book...
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Year of Publication: 2011
Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimYear of Publication: 2011
Distant Love
Personal Life in the Global Age
Family and love in the times of globalisation: The grandparents in Thessaloniki and their grandchildren in Cambridge speak to each other every night – via Skype. A woman in the US woman and...
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Year of Publication: 2000
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2000
Liberty or Capitalism
Rethinking Society
Global capitalism destroys the culture of liberty by radicalizing social inequality. In this way, it contradicts a cosmopolitan culture that rests on the principle of the peaceful coexistence of all...
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