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Derek Robbins
The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics.
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Professor Derek Robbins
A detailed, imaginative approach to five key social theorists who have helped to shape modern thought. Robbins is a world class expert and his book represents a significant development in…
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This book seeks to offer a chronological account of the development of Pierre Bourdieu’s thinking. It is intended to guide readers towards and through the original texts and attempts to…
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In his Introduction to this new translation of Otaka's Grundlegung der Lehre vom sozialen Verband, Derek Robbins suggests that assessing Otaka's text and its context contributes to an understanding of…
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Part of the SAGE Swifts series, this book examines the changing and competing conceptualizations of the political and the social in the Western European intellectual tradition, in particular, the way…
‘The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu’ provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives.
The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised…
The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu’s sociological reflexivity…
J.F. Lyotard was one of the most important social thinkers of the last 30 years, and is seen by some as the father of postmodernism. His work raises many political…
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Derek Robbins provides the first complete assessment of the sociological achievements of one of the key European sociologists of the 20th century. Bourdieu has made decisive contributions to theory, method…
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Dorothy Dodge Robbins
Literary Onomastics analyzes the namecraft of authors ranging from William Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin, studying how names function and convey meaning in works of literature and in genres…
