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An influential book from 1894 on the need for a comprehensive science of human society and human progress.

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Discussses the relationship between the biblical prophet Ezekiel's vision of "wheels in the air" and the present day end-of-time concept as seen in ... More

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Rev. papers delivered at a conference held July 3-5, 2008 at the University of Erfurt.

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Whitehead applies his razor-sharp thinking to the question, "How did our culture get into the dismal moral and cultural state it is in today?" He ... More

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Originally published: London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1935.

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Discusses the seriousness of the worldwide dilemma of hunger, depletion of natural resources, and pollution and suggests ways to "reclaim the planet" ... More

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This wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical ... More

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Featuring a new, explanatory Foreword by Justice Cardozo's premier biographer, this renowned and much-used analysis of the process of judicial ... More

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One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has ... More

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First published in English in 1933, this detailed philosophical examination of the contemporary state and nature of mankind is a seminal work by ... More

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Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, sociologist Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought from ancient Greece to ... More

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Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. ... More

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Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western society.

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From "New York Times"-bestselling author and speaker Williams and business guru Drew comes a revolutionary book outlining the surprising societal ... More

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Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with ... More

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In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and ... More

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The topical and controversial French theorist Jean Baudrillard has played a role in the development of critical social theory and cultural sociology ... More

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'Liquid life' is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern ... More

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First published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, The Revolution of Everyday Life is a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the ... More

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More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than ... More

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Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language ... More

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In this book, three social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision ... More

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The focus of this book is the unknown George Grant, namely, the philosophic, religious, and artistic inspiration behind his well-known public ... More

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