The Consequences of Modernity

Similar books (20)

• 

  Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Teorie jednání

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Slepé skvrny

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

  The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Das Ende der Illusionen: Politik, Ökonomie und Kultur in der Spätmoderne

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

  A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world
  
  Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

  Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questio…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

  Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of "social construc…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Das Kapital

  Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

  Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Modernity and the Holocaust

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Women, Race & Class

  From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.
  
  "Angela Davis is herse…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

  Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Trop…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

  In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Vagina Monologues

  I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues ...At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going, you c…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  What Is to Be Done?

  In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. T…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a m…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

  Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, ov…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

  'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter'
  
  Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychol…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectu…

  Buy this book on Amazon