Two leading feminist thinkers, posing a radical alternative to the current free-market industrial system, show how if we are to survive, economies must become needs-based, environmentally sustainable, co-operative and local. They call instead for a new politics and economics based on subsistence.
Applies poststructuralist and postmodern ideas to issues of health and health care to provide a radical re-think of how health is to be understood. This text offers a perspective in which health is seen as an affirmation of potential rather than a narrow biopsychosocial construct.
The 'Philosophical Research' Series aims to present work by authors who conceive of philosophy as a co-operative scientific enterprise.
Describes the author's work with alcoholics, AIDS patients, prisoners, and others dying of what one of her clients calls 'the delayed effects of child abuse.' This book shows through examples that people can turn their lives around, and by doing so, change the quality of our entire society.
The Creating a Healing Society program pioneers the recognition of the devastating impact of human emotional pain and trauma as the root cause of societal and world problems. This book describes the author's work with alcoholics, AIDS patients, and prisoners.
This text offers an account of the rise of sociological thought from its origins in the 18th century. Beginning with the classical sociology of Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel, it ends by discussing salient 1990s sociological theories of Foucault, Baudrillard, Giddens, Habermas and others.
Our changing understanding of the body challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. This title highlights and analyses the debates which make the body central to sociological, psychological, cultural and feminist thinking.
Provides insight into the thinking of Muammar Al Qaddafi, and his Third Universal Theory for a new democratic society. This work outlines his theory: direct democracy in society; an economic revolution; and launching social revolution, presenting solutions to man's struggles in life, and to the unsolved problems of man and woman.
This volume considers such questions as: Agassi's philosophy of education, in practice as well as in theory; the impact of psychology on philosophy; the origins of critical rationalism in the Bible; and the debates in economics stimulated by the work of Popper and Agassi.
Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.