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Zur Funktion der Sprache bei Walter Benjamin
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 6.47Walter Benjamin ließ in seinen Werken, parallel zur Gesellschaftstheorie und der Literaturkritik, auch stets der Sprache einen großen Stellenwert zukommen. Nicht nur in seinen sprachtheoretischen Texten, sondern auch in jenen, welche sich der Literatur und der Kunst widmen, ist dies zu erkennen. So auch in "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen... more...
The OECD and European Welfare States
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00The OECD includes the richest nations in the world. It issues recommendations on economic and social policies. Is its counsel on welfare state policies coherent? And is it followed by member states in Western Europe? These are the guiding questions of this book, which is a first to deal with such issues. more...
The Charmed Circle of Ideology
re.press 2009; US$ 25.00Set against the collapse of social theory into a theory of ideological discourse, Geoff Boucher sets to work a rigorous mapping of the contemporary field, targeting the relativist implications of this new form of philosophical idealism. Offering a detailed and immanent critique, Boucher concentrates his critical attention on the ?postmarxism? of Laclau... more...
Why Welfare States Persist
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 20.00The world’s richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal pressures, has the welfare state not been replaced by another model? Reconsidering the myriad issues raised by such pressing questions, Clem Brooks and... more...
Borderline Welfare
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 25.95Which "forms of feeling" are facilitated and which discouraged within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public cultures of welfare, locating them in relation to our understanding of borderline states of mind in individuals, organizations and society. Part of the Tavistock... more...
European Welfare States
SAGE Publications 2005; US$ 58.00Illustrated throughout with student-friendly features such as case-studies, chapter summaries, questions for discussion and guides for further reading European Welfare States provides: - an overview of the development of welfare states in Europe; - a discussion of key issues including welfare state theories, the role of globalization, gender... more...
The Diversity of Democracy
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 40.00Focusing on the classical literature on neo-corporatism, this book illustrates the enormous influence of the 'neo-corporatist debate' on modern political science, political sociology, and political economy. It is aimed at academics, students and researchers with an interest in political science, democratic theory and European integration. more...
The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 34.00This book traces how individuals have fared over ten years in each of the three principal types of welfare state. The authors argue that the social democratic welfare regime of the Netherlands outperforms the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime on a range of measures. more...
After Liberalism
Princeton University Press 2001; US$ 28.95In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues... more...
Der Transnistrien-Konflikt: Produkt spätsowjetischer Verteilungskämpfe und Zerfallskonflikt der implodierten Sowjetunion
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 57.16Der wissenschaftliche Ertrag der Untersuchung besteht in der ersten umfassenden Analyse des Transnistrien-Konflikts in deutscher Sprache. Der Konflikt soll weniger als ethnischer, sondern in erster Linie als postsowjetischer Konflikt verstanden werden, dessen Entstehung aus der Konkursmasse der Sowjetunion sowohl Begleiterscheinung als auch Folge des... more...









