Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides)

Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, making this the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike.

Politics & Social Sciences

Edgar, Andrew

Sedgwick, Peter

Philosophy

Routledge

Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, making this the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike.

Habermas: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

An independently minded champion of ‘the project of modernity’ in a supposedly post-modern age, Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) is one of the most widely influential thinkers of our times. An easy-to-use A-Z guide to a body of work that spans philosophy, sociology, politics, law and cultural theory, Habermas: The Key Concepts explores Habermas’ writings on: <ul>
<li>capitalism</li> <li>genetics</li> <li>law</li> <li>neo-conservatism</li> <li>universal pragmatics.</li>
</ul>
Fully cross-referenced with extensive suggestions for further reading, this is an essential reference guide to one of the most important social theorists of the last century.

Habermas: The Key Concepts: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Biographies & Memoirs

Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common ground. Both are ways in which humans confront philosophical challenges, though they do this through very different media. While art deploys sensual media such as paint or sound, sport is the pursuit of a physical challenge at which the athlete may fail. This is to propose, in an argument that has its roots in Hegel’s aesthetics, that sport may be interpreted as a way of reflecting upon metaphysical and normative issues, such as the nature of human freedom, fate and chance, and even our sense of space and time. This argument is developed by proposing the concept of a ‘sportworld’, an ‘atmosphere of theory’ and a ‘knowledge of history’ through which an event is interpreted and thereby constituted as sport. Ultimately, Sport and Art argues that in order to be truly appreciated, sport must be understood within a modernist aesthetics. That is to say that sport is not about beauty, but rather about the struggle to find meaning in sporting triumph and crucially sporting failure. This book was published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport (Ethics and Sport)

Religion & Spirituality

The Philosophy of Habermas (Volume 5) (Continental European Philosophy)

The Philosophy of Habermas (Continental European Philosophy) (Volume 5)

McGill-Queen's University Press

This comprehensive introduction to the thought of Jurgen Habermas covers the full range of his ideas from his early work on student politics to his recent work on communicative action, ethics and law. Andrew Edgar examines Habermas' key texts in chronological order, revealing the developments, shifts and turns in Habermas' thinking as he refines his basic insights and incorporates new sources and ideas. Some of the themes discussed include Habermas' early reshaping of Marxist theory and practice, his characterization of critical theory, his conception of universal pragmatics, his theories of communicative action and discourse ethics, and his defence of the project of modernity. Edgar offers much more than a schematic run through of Habermas' big ideas. He deals in detail with Habermas' arguments in order to demonstrate how he weaves together multiple strands of thought, and he usefully situates Habermas' ideas within the contexts of the history of German philosophy, the history of sociology, and within contemporary debates in both continental and analytic philosophy. By engaging with some of Habermas' key critics and contrasting his views with the ideas of contemporaries, Edgar is able to give a clear sense of Habermas' place and importance in contemporary philosophy and social theory.

Transactions Of The National Association For The Promotion Of Social Science, Part 2

History

Wentworth Press

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Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides)

Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides)

Habermas: The Key Concepts: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Habermas: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport (Ethics and Sport)

The Philosophy of Habermas (Continental European Philosophy) (Volume 5)

The Philosophy of Habermas (Volume 5) (Continental European Philosophy)

Transactions Of The National Association For The Promotion Of Social Science, Part 2

Transactions Of The National Association For The Promotion Of Social Science, Part 2

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