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  • Utopia
    Keith Tester
    In addition to considering the role of social theory in the imagination of alternative futures, this volume reflects on how social theory may assist us in understanding and appreciating utopia or utopianism as a special topic of interest, a special subject matter, a special analytical focus or a special normative dimension of sociological thinking. Bringing together the latest ...
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    97,64 €

  • Civil Society
    Keith Tester
    This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society created a milieu which was at once the location and defence of social self-sufficiency in the world. The book identifies the origins of civil society in the work of Locke, Hobbes, ...
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    57,26 €

  • Animals and Society
    Keith Tester
    Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves from incidents like the medieval execution of pigs to a discussion of the politics and strategies of modern rights organisations. The book also presents radical interpretations of nineteenth-century animal welfare laws, and the acco...
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    88,23 €

  • The Flaneur
    Keith Tester
    Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ’man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. The flâneur’s activities of strolling and loitering ...
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    90,99 €

  • The Two Sovereigns
    Keith Tester
    Keith Tester examines modernity through the prism of the two sovereigns - of the individual and the collectivity. It is a stimulating meditation on the difficult and contradictory experiences of European modernity. ...
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    43,57 €

  • The Inhuman Condition
    Keith Tester
    This book offers a major interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships, encompassing the work of thinkers such as Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel. ...
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    95,39 €

  • Media Culture & Morality
    Keith Tester
    First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author seizes upon the disparity between the enormous production of books in the field and the lack of substantive insights generate...
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    42,72 €

  • The Life and Times of Post-Modernity
    Keith Tester
    This critical review of ’postmodernity’ argues that we are not living in the midst of a new ’great transformation’. Rather, the problems and possibilities of contemporary culture reflect the paradoxes and dreams of modernity. ...
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    95,35 €