As the world confronts the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate change,
we also face a third, less visible emergency: a crisis of imagination. We can easily picture …

The authors of this volume explore the tensions and dilemmas that impact pluralism and
homogeneity in modern societies. This is the first work in this field in which the frame of …

A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress, from one of the world's
preeminent thinkers.“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition… All readers will learn …

This is a superb book. By presenting basic sociological topics in terms of the paradoxes they
contain, O′ Brien situates the discipline and its subject matter in historical and intellectual …

To face an unequal world requires us to interpret and explain it, to be sure, but also to
engage it, that is, to recognize that we are part of it and that we are partly responsible for it. In …

" Any reader of the Chronicle of Higher Education can tell you that the humanities are in
crisis. Seen as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, humanistic …