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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Ontological Entanglements, Agency and Ethics in International Relations

    Exploring the Crossroads

    by Laura Zanotti ...
    Series series Interventions
    While the relevance of ontological commitments for epistemology and methodology in International Relations have been the subject of growing debate for several years, the implications for ethics and political agency of embracing an ontology of entanglement have remained unexplored. This work focuses on the importance of addressing the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the discipline of ... Read more

    PHP4,064.87

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  • Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    by Stephen H. Kellert ...
    What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological ... Read more

    PHP2,172.79

  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

    PHP2,828.59

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    PHP1,328.39

  • Key Problems of Sociological Theory

    by John Rex ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume of VII twenty-two on a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Originally published in 1961, this book was written because of the author’s sense of the inadequacies of a sociological tradition dominated by empiricism and positivism. The tradition of empiricism leads to attempts to settle public issues by reference to crude ad hoc generalisations. So “right-wing” facts are refuted ... Read more

    PHP4,249.67

  • On What Matters

    Volume Three

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we ... Read more

    PHP1,939.79

  • Realist Constructivism

    Rethinking International Relations Theory

    by J. Samuel Barkin ...
    Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in ... Read more

    PHP1,868.89

  • Being Realistic about Reasons

    by T. M. Scanlon ...
    T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if ... Read more

    PHP1,520.89

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Rajend Mesthrie ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, ... Read more

    PHP2,929.69

  • Constructivism and International Relations

    Alexander Wendt and his Critics

    Edited by Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander ...
    Series series New International Relations
    This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt.Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are informed by a wide array of contending theories ranging from realism to poststructuralism. The collected ... Read more

    PHP4,249.67

  • Cultural Studies in the Future Tense

    by Lawrence Grossberg ...
    Lawrence Grossberg is one of the leading figures in cultural studies internationally. In Cultural Studies in the Future Tense, he offers a powerful critique of the present state of cultural studies and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially in the Anglo-American academy. He develops a vision for the future of cultural studies as conjunctural analysis, a radically contingent and ... Read more

    PHP1,771.89

  • Economics and Reality

    by Tony Lawson ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools which are appropriate for the social world it addresses ... Read more

    PHP7,760.77