History of Ideas

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Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal

Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

Through Kant’s idea that the intelligibility of the historical process as a whole should be grasped as revealing a "secret plan of Nature," he actually betrays, if not disdain … 19 $2.47 Add
Restless Ideas

Restless Ideas

Contemporary 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 … 592 View
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Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds

Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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 … 9 $0.90 Add
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Spineless Admiration

Spineless Admiration

On Anti-Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

The author details how nostalgia is regarded with suspicion from academic to widespread cultural use. Advocates of dismissing the past, and their perpective of the world as just and meritocratic … 19 $1.90 Add
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That’s What She Said

That’s What She Said

On the Future of Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Biopolitical Production of the Common

The Biopolitical Production of the Common

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

This chapter shows how Marx’s framework, suitably updated, can help us better make sense of the fact that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural, in a way that allows us to deepen … 18 $2.34 Add
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The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits:

The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits:

On the Why of Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

This chapter discusses nostalgia as a feeling, and the history of nostalgia, from antiquity to the present, moving out of the medical into the cultural realm. Why it is important to describe … 21 $2.10 Add
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The Dynamic Telos of History — A Shared Democratic World

The Dynamic Telos of History — A Shared Democratic World

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

Conclusion 8 $1.04 Add
The Elective Mind
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The Elective Mind

Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree

This book discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to … 164 View
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The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative

The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative

Psychic Numbing with Paul Slovic

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

When numbers soar, our consistency with basic values and concerns collapses. Most people are caring and highly responsive when they hear of an individual’s desperate plight, yet are numbly … 10 $1.00 Add
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Theorizing Our Anxious Age

Theorizing Our Anxious Age

Theorists of Late Modernity

From: Restless Ideas

What Is Late Modernity? … 441 From Modernism to Late Modernity: The Social Theories of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu … 447 Structuration Theory of Anthony Giddens … 448 … 64 $6.40 Add
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Theorizing Our Class Divisions

Theorizing Our Class Divisions

Neo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society

From: Restless Ideas

The Modern Legacy of Karl Marx … 138 The Many Faces of Contemporary Marxism … 147 Critical Theory … 150 Structuralist Marxism … 150 Post-Marxism … 164 The “Post” in … 43 $4.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Colonial Histories

Theorizing Our Colonial Histories

Indigenous Knowledge and Social Thought

From: Restless Ideas

Colonization and Knowledge … 418 Indigenous Knowledge … 421 The Decolonization of Indigenous Knowledge … 423 Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Beyond Contestation to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Conflict Zones

Theorizing Our Conflict Zones

Conflict Theories of Society

From: Restless Ideas

The Human Habit of Social Conflict … 96 Optimism, Pessimism or Realism? … 100 Origins of Conflict Theory … 102 Modern Sociological Conflict Theory … 105 The Structural … 42 $4.20 Add
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Theorizing Our Discursive Lives

Theorizing Our Discursive Lives

Postmodernism and Poststructuralism

From: Restless Ideas

The Postmodern Age … 311 What Is Postmodernism? … 314 Characteristics of Postmodernism … 315 The Roots of Postmodern Theories … 321 Michel Foucault: Pioneer of … 63 $6.30 Add