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Kommunikation und Kommunizierbarkeit von Wissen
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 64.49Hauptbeschreibung Die erfolgreiche kommunikative Vermittlung und Aneignung von Wissen bildet eine zentrale Voraussetzung für die Bewältigung des beruflichen und privaten Alltags. In dieser interdisziplinären Studie wird den Fragen nachgegangen, wie sich der kommunikative Transfer von Wissen vollzieht und welche Parameter für eine gelingende Wissenskommunikation... more...
The Frankfurt School and its Critics
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 57.95The Institute of Social Research, from which the Frankfurt School developed, was founded in the early years of the Weimar Republic. It survived the Nazi era in exile, to become an important centre of social theory in the postwar era. Early members of the school, such as Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse, developed a form of Marxist theory known as Critical... more...
Structure of Social Theory
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95Over the last three decades, social theory has become an increasingly important subdiscipline within sociology. Social theory has attempted to elucidate the philosophical basis of sociology by defining the nature of social reality. According to social theory, society consists of objective institutions, structure, on the one hand, and individuals, agency... more...
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
Wiley 2009; US$ 51.95The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter. New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse... more...
The vocation of reason
BRILL 2004; US$ 74.00Wilson (York U., Toronto) collects ten journal articles and book chapters published between 1976 and 2004 on the thought, influence, and milieu of American philosopher Weber (1864-1920). Some consider the limits of rationality by discussing such topics as critical theory in American from 1938 to 1978 as a case of intellectual innovation and its rec more...
The Frankfurt School Revisited
Routledge 2006; US$ 24.95Assesses the school's relevance in light of a variety of contemporary issues and concerns including the collapse of communism, the global war on terror, the resurgence of religious fundamentalism, the dislocations of globalization, and the prospect of global democracy. This work seeks to reinvigorate the Frankfurt School's intellectual legacy. more...
Modernity and Postmodern Culture
McGraw-Hill Education 2006; US$ 186.00Critically assesses claims made about the 'postmodernization' of culture and society, and explores the complex interplay between the modern and the postmodern in an increasingly 'globalized world'. This book argues that although culture may be 'postmodern' in terms of art, entertainment and everyday life, modernity exists and is pervasive. more...
Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 29.95Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Claude Lévi-Strauss, each... more...
Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 29.95Covering the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most significant thinkers in sociology, Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists concentrates on figures in the field writing principally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Including entries on Jane Addams, Theodor Adorno, George Lukács, Max Weber and Pitrim Sorokin,... more...
Sacred Revolutions
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 72.00It seems improbable, but the most radical cultural iconoclasts of the interwar years?Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Michel Leiris?responded to the rise of fascism by taking refuge in a "sacred sociology". Michèle H. Richman examines this seemingly paradoxical development in this book which traces the overall implications for French... more...









