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Social Theory in a Changing World
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.95This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences. Delanty examines the writings of a number of key contemporary thinkers, including Habermas, Foucault, Bauman, Touraine, Giddens and Beck, and provides a clear account of the strengths and limitations of their work. more...
Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 225.00This innovative publication maps out the broad and interdisciplinary field of contemporary European social theory. It covers sociological theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the social sciences including cultural and political theory, anthropological theory, social philosophy and social thought in the broadest sense of the term. This... more...
Europe and Asia beyond East and West
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians - show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be questioned. Featuring four thematically organized... more...
The Cosmopolitan Imagination
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 26.00A fresh assessment of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. more...
COMMUNITY
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 39.95The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the... more...
Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 220.00Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where, earlier, it had largely been a term associated with moral and political philosophy, cosmopolitanism has now become a widely-used term in the social sciences. It is now integral to much of cultural, political and social analysis.... more...
Modernity and Postmodernity
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 51.95A new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory. more...
Rethinking Europe
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 53.95Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that Europeanization should be theorized in terms of: globalization ... more...
Handbook of Historical Sociology
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 150.00This Handbook consists of 26 chapters on historical sociology. Part One is devoted to Foundations, Part Two moves on to consider major approaches and Part Three is devoted to the major themes in historical sociology. Systematic and informative it offers readers the most complete and authoritative guide to historical sociology. more...









