Product Description: A devastating analysis of what is happening to our universitiesDoes “marketization” threaten to destroy what we most value about education? Will this new era of “accountability” distort what it purports to measure? What do we mean by a “public” system of higher education and how should we defend it? Globalization has transformed the economic horizon...read more

Analyzes the problems and consequences of the lack of communication between scientists and non-scientists in the modern world

Product Description: That’s Offensive! examines the common assertion that to criticize someone else’s deeply held ideas or beliefs is inherently offensive. This idea, Stefan Collini argues, is unfortunately reinforced by two of the central requirements of an enlightened global politics: treating all people with equal respect and trying to avoid words or deeds that compound existing social disadvantages...read more

Product Description: In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Collini focuses on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership...read more

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Product Description: Umberto Eco, autor de novelas de éxito e importante teórico literario, funde en este libro esos dos papeles en un provocador debate en torno al controvertido tema de la interpretación literaria. Los límites de la interpretación - lo que se puede afirmar que significa realmente un texto - es una cuestión que interesa doblemente a un semiótico, autor de novelas cuya sorprendente complejidad ha sumido a los lectores en una gran especulación acerca de su significado...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of relation to an audience exhibited by social critics from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J.M. Keynes and F.R. Leavis.

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Product Description: Matthew Arnold left behind him a variety of literary achievements. This book begins with an examination of the Arnoldian "voice" and ends with an appraisal and a defense of some of the ways in which he has influenced modern English culture...read more

Product Description: In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science of politics'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term 'political science': in fact, as this book demonstrates, it remained the overarching category under which many nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve systematic understanding of man's common life...read more

Product Description: In this wide-ranging book, Stefan Collini deals with the relationship between Liberalism and sociology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. He discusses in particular the crucial contributions of L. T. Hobhouse, the leading Liberal political theorist of the period who is also generally regarded as the 'Founding Father' of British sociology...read more