Overview :Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book... Read More
Overview :Written by one of Europe's leading social theorists, this book takes up the claims of modernity and confronts them with a stark reality: the... Read More
Overview :Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the America... Read More
Overview :The question of religion, its contemporary and future significance and its role in society and state is currently perceived as an urgent one... Read More
Overview :This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers's philosophy... Read More
Overview :'Emile Durkheim remains one of the most controversial, and one of the most deeply misunderstood, classics of social theory. His work differs... Read More
Overview :Public and intellectual debates have long struggled with the concept of values and the difficulties of defining them. With The Genesis of Va... Read More
Overview :Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbel... Read More
Overview :Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form "church" in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the churc... Read More
Overview :This major study reassesses the work of the American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), which had a significant impact in fields ra... Read More
Overview :How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other? The variety of views on this subject in philosophy... Read More
Overview :The old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated. Yet the certainty that religion is an anthropological universal t... Read More
Overview :Conventional wisdom holds that human rights emerged from the spirit of the French Revolution, itself a political expression of the French En... Read More
Overview :Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning ... Read More