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  • The Democracy of Knowledge

    by Dr. Daniel Innerarity ...
    Translated by Sandra Kingery ...
    Series series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
    This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series extends democracy to knowledge in two ways. First, it argues that the issues science seeks to clarify are relevant for all citizens. Second, it explains that the fundamental problems faced by any democracy, such as the economic crisis, are not so much problems of political will as cognitive failures that must be resolved ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Governance in the New Global Disorder

    Politics for a Post-Sovereign Society

    by Daniel Innerarity ...
    Translated by Sandra Kingery ...
    When we talk about globalization, we tend to focus on its social and economic benefits. In Governance in the New Global Disorder, the political philosopher Daniel Innerarity considers its unsettling and largely unacknowledged consequences. The "opening" of different societies to new ideas, products, and forms of prosperity has introduced a persistent uncertainty, or disorder, into everyday life. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Humanity at Risk

    The Need for Global Governance

    Edited by Dr. Daniel Innerarity, Javier Solana ...
    Series series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
    Humanity at Risk compares diverse approaches to the theme of global threats using the tools of philosophy, critical theory, and political thought alongside more practical, socio-political observations. By defining the idea of "global risk" more specifically, Editors Innerarity and Solana, and their contributors, believe we can understand how these risks should be evaluated, predicted, and managed ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Politics in the Times of Indignation

    the Crisis of Representative Democracy

    by Dr. Daniel Innerarity ...
    Translated by Sandra Kingery ...
    Series series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
    Politics in the Times of Indignation provides a critical look at Western liberal democracies in crisis, to provide us with the theoretical tools to make sense of the political disorientation of our times.Indispensable for understanding the present state of democratic societies, this book is a lens through which we can study numerous contemporary developments. He examines the popular indignation ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Future and Its Enemies

    In Defense of Political Hope

    by Daniel Innerarity ...
    Translated by Sandra Kingery ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Humans may be the only creatures conscious of having a future, but all too often we would rather not think about it. Likewise, our societies, unable to deal with radical uncertainty, do not make policies with a view to the long term. Instead, we suffer from a sense of powerlessness, collective irrationality, and perennial political discontent.In The Future and Its Enemies, Spanish philosopher ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Good Life Beyond Growth

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Hartmut Rosa, Christoph Henning ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Many countries have experienced a decline of economic growth for decades, an effect that was only aggravated by the recent global financial crisis. What if in the 21st century this is no longer an exception, but the general rule? Does an economy without growth necessarily bring hardship and crises, as is often assumed? Or could it be a chance for a better life? Authors have long argued that money ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Social Acceleration

    A New Theory of Modernity

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

    by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson ...
    Series series a Social Text book
    Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Age of Responsibility

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • World at Risk

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Prisoners of Reason

    Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy

    by S. M. Amadae ...
    Is capitalism inherently predatory? Must there be winners and losers? Is public interest outdated and free-riding rational? Is consumer choice the same as self-determination? Must bargainers abandon the no-harm principle? Prisoners of Reason recalls that classical liberal capitalism exalted the no-harm principle. Although imperfect and exclusionary, modern liberalism recognized individual human ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Freedom's Right

    The Social Foundations of Democratic Life

    by Axel Honneth ...
    The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their “field of application” - namely, social reality.Axel Honneth proposes a different approach ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD