Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of fashion, this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.
This book has two aims: to offer a series of investigations into aspects of contemporary politics such as race, nation and gender; and to articulate a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema.
David Harvey brings an exciting perspective to two of the principal themes of contemporary social discourse; globalization and the body.
In the age of terrorism Michael Ignatieff argues that we must not shrink from the use of violence. But its use - in a liberal democracy - must be measured.
Discussing the limits of political philosophy, this is a follow-up to Ethics . This work argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection. It proposes the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the affirmation of equality.
Represents one of a series of seven lectures sponsored in 1999 by Liberty Fund and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Friedrich von Hayek's birth.