Human agents and social structures

Human agents and social structuresThis is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate such as society and the individual have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected.

This book offers innovative solutions to our democratic

looking closely at the dynamics of stardom and celebrity endorsement and examining its marketing and media impact

touching on composition

People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture

philosophers and politicians for centuries

The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’

Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen

Written from a theoretical perspective

has received a deluge of critical acclaim for its darkly comic political satire and bleak metaphorical landscapes

This book employs the history of Penguin Books to offer a new account of Britain’s post-war politics

Misreading Postmodern Antigone considers these divergent readings and what they have to tell us about contemporary society

The remarkable stories of reporters