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What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosophe...

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized lingui...

Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History is the most comprehensive account of modern criticism and theory available in the English language....

The book (in two volumes) studies the Western or European political thought and its development from its beginning in the speculations of the early...

The development delusion in a globalized culture is a fascinating subject for informed debate and discussion. Fallacies of Development critiques th...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This c...

Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord ta...

This book examines the relationship between cultural difference and practical knowledge and its implications for the study of humanities and the so...

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

The quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries ove...

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought is the most comprehensive and rigorous treatment of significant political thinkers, political theories, conce...

In the midst of growing religious fanaticism, fundamentalism and terrorism in different parts of the world which are affecting the entire humanity ...

This book presents empirical knowledge of the author, in wide and varied fields of human behaviour, acquired over six decades of his life. In our d...

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inabi...

The book is based on predictive geopolitics and focuses on the territorial supremacy of nations and superpowers—both onshore and offshore. It attem...

The G8 runs what South African president Thabo Mbeki and others describe as 'global apartheid'. ... He -- and everyone else -- should read this sup...

The significance of political thought cannot be overemphasized. The task of understanding the deeper implications of the present situation and the ...

Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individ...

The book (in two volumes) studies the Western or European political thought and its development from its beginning in the speculations of the early...

The book studies different phases of the history of political thought by analysing the views of various political thinkers including their life and...

The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, ...