Bøger af Kire Sharlamanov

This book identifies the turning points in Habermas's work and his transition from one stage to another in the development of his theoretical oeuvre. Habermas began his academic career as part of the Frankfurt School, but the two key points at which his career changes trajectory are moving from historical materialism to normative idealism and playing with some of the ideas of liberalism. Normative idealism is an ahistorical theory that insists on the independence of the normative from material reality, severing the connection between base and superstructure that Marx wrote about. The break with the basic concepts of Marxism enabled Habermas to build his own discursive (critical) theory, which, especially since the end of the 1980s, takes the ideas of liberalism seriously. This book makes a systematic, multidimensional and detailed analysis of Habermas's theoretical oeuvre in two dimensions, chronological (in the order in which Habermas worked on certain topics) and thematic (enclosingcertain thematic units).

This book offers a systematic and multifaceted analysis of the Greens on the levels of political philosophy, political concepts, social movement, political parties, and political ideology. The originality of the book lies in the determination of the political philosophy of the Greens as left libertarianism. Such a determination of the Greens can already be found in the writings of Herbert Kitschelt, but while he only makes a cursory mention of it, this book offers a detailed elaboration of the points of contact between left-libertarianism and the Greens. The book also attempts to explain the acceptance of left-libertarianism by the Greens with social processes in Western Europe, the emergence of a new middle class and post-materialist values. At the same time, the book examines the relationship between the left-libertarian political philosophy of the Greens and the organizational structure of the Green parties, their relationship to the state, and to democracy.

Sociology is one of the most important social sciences. Without knowing sociology, it is difficult to fully understand the complex social reality. The book "Introduction to Sociology" is a textbook that aims to outline the fundamentals of sociology. It is divided into 22 chapters and covers all relevant topics within contemporary sociology. In addition to the standard themes for sociology, this textbook deals with topics that are relatively new, but dominant in sociology in the last two decades. Also, the textbook contains topics that have been forgotten in sociology for a period of time, but have recently been re-actualized. The quality of this textbook is that it tries to present complex sociological concepts in a simple and understandable way.

This book explores the most important aspects of populism as a significant social phenomenon. It recapitulates the approaches to defining populism in the social sciences, singles out the most important concepts in the definition of populism, and presents them to the readership. Specific to this book is that it seeks to promote an approach that sees populism as a meta-ideology, that is, an ideology that uses other political ideologies instrumentally. In addition, the book Populism as Meta Ideology identifies the most important factors that have contributed to the growth of populism in recent times. Modernization, globalization, the crisis of political parties, and the transformation of the public sphere have been identified as such factors. A chapter is devoted to each of these factors in the book. The book concludes by examining the interaction between populism and liberal democracy, both theoretically and practically. 

The transformation of socio-political formations causes profound social changes. Such was the case with the transformation of one-party socialist systems in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990¿s into liberal democracies. This book analyzes the transformation of the Macedonian society from 1991 to 2017. It analyzes the transformation of several important segments: ¿he social protection system; Poverty; Unemployment; The pension system and ¿he health care system.