Social Theory

Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue b...

Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory's spatial turn. From the suppression of space in modern social scienc...

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. As an architect, engineer, entrepre...

History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows ...

How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? ''Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, ...

How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? ''Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, ...

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of ...

Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly''s book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant ...

Winner of the Urban History Association's 2005 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History Award. In traditional Chinese cities, a lively stree...

This book explores the historical developments in social theory and critical theorising about history by Michel Foucault. The book begins by explic...

If relationships are the foundation on which social capital is built, then individuals are the stars at the centre of the construct. From there, th...

This book originates from a basic, yet innovative question: in which forms of qualification and justification do social actors support themselves t...

From a general perspective, as well as in scientific practice, technology and society are viewed as two distinct entities. Related to this view are...