Moses Hess
Moses Hess

Author: Shlomo Avineri

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1987-09-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780814705872

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The Disciplinary Frame
The Disciplinary Frame

Author: John Tagg

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0816642877

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How do photographs gain their meaning and power? John Tagg claims that, to answer this question, we must look at the ways in which everything that frames photography - the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it - determines what counts as truth.

Faces of Nationalism
Faces of Nationalism

Author: Tom Nairn

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781859848234

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In "The Modern Janus", Nairn argued for the democratic necessity of nationalism in the modern world. In this work, he addresses the subsequent upheavals caused by nationalism.

The Vocation Lectures
The Vocation Lectures

Author: Max Weber

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2004-03-15

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1603840729

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Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two related subjects that go to the heart of his thought: the nature and status of science and its claims to authority; and the nature and status of political claims and the ultimate justification for such claims. Together in this volume, these newly translated lectures offer an ideal point of entry into Weber's central project: understanding how, as Weber put it, "in the West alone there have appeared cultural manifestations [that seem to] go in the direction of universal significance and validity.