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From this double vantage point, the book discusses the theories of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Jeffrey Alexander, and Judith Butler, as well as rational choice theory, relational sociology, and organizational neo-institutionalism.This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris s vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish.He brings rigorous analytic philosophy to bear on the Republican party in the United States, and the Conservative party and the New Labour party in Britain.This lucid book, written with wit and clarity, is fully revised and updated in order to give a rigorous and complete analysis of conservatism up to the American election of 2004.In revealing conversations with creative minds from a broad variety of fields from architecture and advertising to furniture, product, industrial, and graphic design design writers Aileen Kwun and Bryn Smith spotlight makers and thinkers who continue to experiment, innovate, and make vital contributions to their disciplines well into their eighth decade.It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu's habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott's account of tradition, Quentin Skinner's theory of historical meaning, Harry Collins's idea of collective tacit knowledge, as well as discussions of relevant cognitive science concepts, such as non-conceptual content, connectionism, and mirror neurons.The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.", The #1 national bestseller and"New York Times"bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas and how leaders can fight groupthink Reading "Originals "made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world.Following the theories of Lefebvre, de Certeau, Foucault and Bourdieu, the insidious roles played by space in economic, cultural, medical, scientific and geopolitical power relations have been interrogated, particularly in relation to the regulation of the body and normalization of subjectivity.How has the concept come to be understood in critical thinking?It is the story of what may be the central issue of our time--humanity's relationship with nature.Each themed section features an editor's introduction setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context.Through its serious engagement with current sociolinguistic theory and insightful analysis of the multiple dimensions of English in the world, this book challenges the readers to think about what we need to do to confront the social inequalities that are perpetuated by the global spread of EnglishThe empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory.This anthology of some of the finest thinkers on this topic is a must read."Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Praise for AFL-CIO's "Secret War Against Developing Country Workers" "It belongs in every library in the country.""Online Journal""A welcome, overdue, and highly informed expose of US labor imperialism and its nefarious effects both in the 'third' or 'developing' world.In this volume, Joshua Parens examines Strauss's investigations of medieval political philosophy, offering interpretations of his writings on the great thinkers of that tradition, including interpretations of his most difficult writings on Alfarabi and Maimonidies.This is the first English translation of one of the most important works of French scholarship on music and society.'Masking Hegemony' offers a critical evaluation of the use of public/private & religion/state binaries in liberal political thought from the Protestant Reformation to the present., 'Masking Hegemony' presents a critical evaluation of the language used in liberal political thought, tracing liberalism's use of two key binary concepts - public/private and religion/state - from the Protestant Reformation to the present.