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Product Description: ​​Der wechselseitige Einfluss von Wissen und Freiheit (und damit Demokratie) in modernen, hochkomplexen Gesellschaften wie auch der Wandel ihrer Beziehungen im Laufe der Moderne ist eines der faszinierendsten Themen unseres Zeitalters...read more

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Product Description: This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Brückner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time...read more

Product Description: This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Brückner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The essays collected in Governing Modern Societies arose from a lecture series of the same name held at Green College, University of British Columbia, in 1997 and 1998. Distinguished scholars in political science, philosophy, sociology, and economics from Canada, the United States, England, Germany, and Australia advance not only the most recent theories of how modern societies are governed, but also the ideological and political relevance of these theories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examining the foundations of the modern capitalist economy from a broad social scientific perspective, this challenging work draws on economics, sociology, political science and geography. The author posits that changing economic circumstances - namely, an end to the primacy of labour and property as determinants of prosperity - have created a need for a new theoretical platform: one that transcends standard economic discourse...read more

Karl Mannheim's "Ideology and Utopia" unleashed a fury of critical activity when it was published in 1929. The book became a focus for debate on the methodical and epistemological problems confronting German social science. More than 30 major papers were published as a response to Mannheim's book. Writers like Karl Wittfogel, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Lewalter, Paul Tillich, Hannah Arendt and Hans Speier were among the contributors. Some saw the sociology of knowledge as a sophisticated reconception of the materialist conception of history whilst others linked its popularity to a betrayal of Marxism. This book provides an introduction to the dispute and reproduces leading contributions. It illuminates one of the greatest controversies to shake German social science in the last century.

Product Description: In this broad-ranging analysis of the central role that knowledge plays in our life, Nico Stehr critically examines the premises of existing social theory and explores the knowledge relations in advanced societies. The result is a significant new synthesis of social theory...read more

Product Description: Welchen Wert hat der Kapitalismus für uns heute - in Zeiten also, in denen Heilsversprechungen über die freie Entfaltung der Marktkräfte vehement mit dramatischen Krisenprognosen konkurrieren? Gibt es eigentlich das Kapital oder den Kapitalismus? Welches Verständnis von Märkten und ihrem Kapital gewinnen wir nicht nur aus ökonomischer, sondern auch aus soziologischer, kulturwissenschaftlicher und politikwissenschaftlicher Sicht? Und welche Entwicklung solcher Kapitalien und ihrer Beziehungen untereinander ist für die Zukunft zu erwarten? Der Band nähert sich diesen Fragen vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Entwicklungen in Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft aus unterschiedlichen fachwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven, die sowohl die aktuellen praktischen Probleme als auch die theoretischen Dimensionen im Blick behalten...read more