Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Landemore Hlne)(Paperback)

Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Landemore Hlne)(Paperback)

Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Helene Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add

Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena (Blitz Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Reason and Politics explores the central phenomena of political life and, therefore, of human affairs in general.Amidst the seemingly endless books on more and more narrowly specialized topics within politics, Mark Blitz offers something very different in this book. Reason and Politics: The Nature

Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Landemore Hlne)(Pevná vazba)

How a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens

Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hlne Cixous and the Thtre Du Soleil (Cixous Helene)(Paperback)

Politics, Ethics and Performance: HElEne Cixous and the ThEAtre du Soleil is a collection of essays by French feminist poet, playwright and philosopher HElEne Cixous. The collection is an important contribution to Cixous' critical thinking on theatre and performance from 1985 to 2014. Cixous'

The Democratic Paradox (Mouffe Chantal)(Paperback)

From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of progress, such ideas constitute a serious

The City and Man (Strauss Leo)(Paperback)

The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together (Malone Thomas W.)(Paperback)

From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals

Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence (Katz Yarden)(Paperback)

Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised to reshape nearly every sphere of life. Who profits from the idea that the age of AI has arrived? Why do ideas of AI's transformative potential keep

Xenophon's Socratic Education: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics (Sebell Dustin)(Pevná vazba)

The Rule of Many (Saunders Ashley)(Paperback)

Politics in Deeply Divided Societies (Guelke Adrian)(Paperback)

The establishment of durable, democratic institutions constitutes one of the major challenges of our age. As countless contemporary examples have shown, it requires far more than simply the holding of free elections. The consolidation of a legitimate constitutional order is difficult to achieve in

American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory (Dorrien Gary)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists 'The movement whose tangled history Gary Dorrien tells in American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very 'American' values it is accused of

The Work of Politics (Klein Steven)(Pevná vazba)

The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domination. Klein develops a novel theory that depicts welfare institutions as 'worldly mediators,' or sites of democratic world-making fostering political

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (Laclau Ernesto)(Paperback)

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings,

Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties (Rowbotham Sheila)(Paperback)

A sparkling portrait of when women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the

The Principle of Reason (Heidegger Martin)(Paperback)

The Principle of Reason, the text of an important and influential lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1955-56, takes as its focal point Leibniz's principle: nothing is without reason. Heidegger shows here that the principle of reason is in fact a principle of being. Much of his discussion

Boy Kills Man (Whyman Matt)(Paperback)

On the streets of Medellin, Colombia, actions speak louder than words, and the rule of the bandidos is the only law worth listening to. Like most kids of their age, Shorty and Alberto work for their local cartel. They run cigarettes, offer protection, and occasionally assassinate someone. The work

Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents (Reason James)(Paperback)

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is

The Politics of Aesthetics (Rancire Jacques)(Paperback)

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranci re reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the

Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (Sharp Hasana)(Paperback)

There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza's naturalism, the idea that humanity is part of

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Jung C.G.)(Paperback / softback)

Jung describes and elaborates his two concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious, establishing the theoretical basis and examining both concept's relationships to the process of

Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence (Lindstaedt Natasha)(Paperback)

This book introduces students to the concept and causes of democratic decay in the modern world. Illustrating the integral link between public commitment to democratic norms and the maintenance of healthy democracies, it examines the key factors in decaying democracies, including: - Economic

Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III (calan Abdullah)(Paperback)

When scientific socialism, which for many years was implemented by Abdullah calan and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), became too narrow for his purposes, calan answered the call for a radical redefinition of the social sciences. Writing from his prison cell, he offered an astute new analysis

Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible (Escobar Arturo)(Paperback)

In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant