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Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet's interpretation of the challenges faced by contemporary western societies as a result of the crisis of liberal democratic politics and the growing influence of populism.

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory.

In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity--that of "the world".

This book explores and proposes original definitions of central terms in political sociology and social theory, including political culture, imaginary, ideology, and utopia, in a manner that renders the individual definitions consistent with one other as part of a single and general conceptual framework for understanding social action.

Through a series of studies, this book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist. Looking beyond the conservative elements of Durkheim's thought, it argues that a radical sociology can be found in Durkheim's normative vision, shaped by what we might call libertarian socialism.

This book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its evolution and definitions, as well as the relationship between cultural, social and human capital, the distinctions between capital and capitalism, and the conflicts that exist among the various critical theories that engage with Bourdieu's thought.

Radical Civility unearths civility's extraordinary potential by addressing why the virtue has fallen into crisis, recalling the injunctions that transpose utopia upon the stingy politics of likelihood, and by offering a vision of citizens who find purpose in dignifying each other.

This book explores the nationalist and imperialist ideas underlying Max Weber's sociology, offering a conceptual analysis of his work to argue that Weber's thought is informed by an ethno-national understanding of the German people whose political aspirations can only be realized through a power-state and its activities on a world stage.

This book explores Pierre Bourdieu's philosophy and sociology of science, which, though central to his thought, have been largely neglected in critical examinations of his work.

This book explores the potential renewal of capital accumulation and the institutions that underlie it, offering a new understanding of the way in which 21st century capitalist accumulation combines the traditional logic of profit through labour exploitation with the logic of profit through speculation and dispossession.

This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a sociology of the transition from a closed to an open society.

This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering a sympathetic reconstruction of a philosophy of science commensurate with Marx's thought.

Making Citizenship Work seeks to address central questions of how a community reaches a place where it can actually make citizenship work, and what does citizenship represent to different communities.

This book develops a contemporary theory of nationalism that addresses 21st century political challenges, exploring theoretical and empirical understandings of the concepts of `the nation¿ and `nationalism¿ and the failure of theoretical accounts to decipher the ways nationalism comes to be embedded in our social and political world.

Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet¿s interpretation of the challenges faced by contemporary western societies as a result of the crisis of liberal democratic politics and the growing influence of populism.

Explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault, which is not to be found in a desire for enlightenment but in the Promethean passion of Western man, the passion of man to shape himself and his world anew.