History of Ideas
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Restless IdeasContemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age |
How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdoğan, or the increase in hate crimes and terrorism? How can we understand Brexit and xenophobic, anti-immigrant … | Tony Simmons | 592 | 2020 | View |
From ![]() AcknowledgementsFrom: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 1 | 2020 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() PrologueAgainst School |
I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time, I became an expert in boredom. | John Taylor Gatto | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() AlienationFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In the first chapter of Finding Our Niche, Alienation, Loring introduces the eco-modernist philosophy that humans are inherently destructive of and separate from nature, and explains how that … | Philip A. Loring | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong |
Forced schooling seduces the trapped into believing that inert knowledge, memorized fact bits and sequences is the gold standard of intellectual achievement. Learning to connect those bits into … | John Taylor Gatto | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() PrologueThe Changing Face of Contemporary Theory From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() Why Do We Theorize?From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Human SystemsFrom: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 49 | 2020 | $4.90 Add |
From ![]() Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsMorality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt |
Ingrained, tribal behaviors can bind and blind us, and shut down open-minded thinking. Looking at the dynamic of polarization from the point of view of tribes and teams is enlightening and useful … | James Hoggan | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Conflict ZonesConflict Theories of Society From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 42 | 2020 | $4.20 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Class DivisionsNeo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 43 | 2020 | $4.30 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Dominated LivesThree Generations of Critical Theorists From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 51 | 2020 | $5.10 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Social SelvesMicrosocial Theories of Symbolic Interaction and Dramaturgy From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 41 | 2020 | $4.10 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Methodical LivesEthnomethodology From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 38 | 2020 | $3.80 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Discursive LivesPostmodernism and Poststructuralism From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 63 | 2020 | $6.30 Add |
From ![]() Theorizing Our Gendered and Sexual SelvesFeminist and Queer Theories From: Restless Ideas |
- | Tony Simmons | 44 | 2020 | $4.40 Add |