Drawing on philosophy and cultural history, Alex Callinicos argues in this work that post-modernism is best read as a symptom of political frustration and social mobility rather than as a significant intellectual or cultural phenomenon.[...]
"The class war is over. But the struggle for true equality has only just begun", Tony Blair has declared. Yet the world enters the 21st century heaving with poverty and inequality. In this book, the author explores the meaning of equality in the contemporary world.[...]
In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of imperialism. But is this belief true[...]
Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. Whole forests have been felled to produce the paper necessary to fuel this effort to mar[...]
Med Samhällsteori vill Alex Callinicos ge en bred introduktion av den klassiska samhällsteoretiska traditionen från upplysningen över bland andra Hegel, Comte, Marx, Durkheim, Weber fram till en värdering av samhällsteoretiker som Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu och Ulrich Beck.
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Vid sidan av frihet är jämlikhet en moralisk idé som ligger till grund för demokratiska samhällen. I likhet med frihet är jämlikhet ett komplext och omstritt begrepp. Jämlikhet kan ha olika betydelser, användas inom olika områden (rätt, politik, ekonomi) och inte minst är det omstritt hu[...]