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  • A New Vision of Southern Jewish History

    Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility

    Series series Jews and Judaism: History and Culture
    Winner of the 2023 Southern Jewish Historical Society Book AwardEssays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish historyMark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, “rewriting southern Jewish history” in ways that its earliest historians could not have ... Read more

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  • The Quiet Voices

    Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s

    Edited by Mark K. Bauman, Berkley Kalin ...
    Series series Judaic Studies Series
    These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since ReconstructionThe study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights movement. Did these leaders play a pivotal role, or did many of them, especially in the South, succumb to ... Read more

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  • To Stand Aside or Stand Alone

    Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement

    Series series Jews and Judaism: History and Culture
    A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.In 1966, a young rabbinical student named P. Allen Krause conducted interviews with twelve Reform rabbis from southern congregations concerning their thoughts, principles, and activities as they related to the civil rights movement. Perhaps because he was a young ... Read more

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  • Theory and Society

    Selected Writings, Volume 3

    Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska ...
    The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important pieces appeared in edited volumes and journals that are not readily available. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare ... Read more

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    Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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    Series series Futures
    Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics ... Read more

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Popper

    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Karl Popper 1902-1994The political history of the twentieth century has been full of savage 'certainties'. A similar idea of history warranted the callous savageries of both Marxism and Fascism. They shared a faith in what Karl Popper called 'Historicism': the belief that the future could be predicted and that man had to align himself with its bloody progress.Totalitarianism, Popper maintained, ... Read more

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  • Solidarity

    The Work of Recognition

    Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared hopes and burdens that make solidarity possible.From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for racial justice, the idea of solidarity is often invoked as the answer to inequality and conflict. And yet, as both a term and a practice, solidarity is tantalizingly slippery. We are encouraged to 'show ... Read more

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  • Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

    An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber

    Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and Real Politics

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows ... Read more

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  • Mapping Ideology

    For a long time, the term “ideology” was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory and to political practice.Including Slavoj iek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to ... Read more

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  • Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman

    Series series Conversations
    Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never forgets that social thought ought to help men and women make sense of their lives and aspire towards something different. His books and essays always focus on the here and now: violence and moral indifference, globalization, consumerism, politics and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD