Polity cambridge uk (75 Ergebnisse)

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 314 pp., bibliography, index.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Paperback Edition. 190pp. Highlighting to the text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Published by Polity Press. Light wear. X11.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, fresh attractive copy, fine condition olive green cloth. WIEVIORKA, MICHEL. The last Jewish joke. Translated from the French by Cory Stockwell. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2025, 141pp., . "The golden age of Jewish humour flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, enjoyed by Jews and non-Jews alike, but its twilight years are now in sight. Telling jokes has the potential to reaffirm community once religion, political loyalties and victimhood are stripped away: from the 1960s on, a unique cultural dynamism bound up in these jokes reminded Jews around the world of what it means to be Jewish. Often, jokes pit one group against another, but Jewish jokes opted for self-deprecation instead, and in this case, laughing at the group reinforced it. They enabled Jews to live in harmony with others in full conscience of their differences and they safeguarded a desire for survival at the heart of Jewish identity. Moreover, absurd, larger-than-life characters such as Rabbi Jacob generated tolerance, empathy and tenderness among non-Jews after the horror and guilt of the Shoah. From the early 2000s, however, the space that allowed Jewish jokes to flourish began to shrink, due to a decline in the understanding of the Shoah, a less positive image of Israel and a waning of the importance of Jewish culture in American intellectual and cultural life. This playful and personal book by Michel Wieviorka includes Jewish jokes but also laments the disappearance of the Jewish joke and eulogises its ability to allow the thriving of community alongside difference. It is an original and wide-ranging analysis of the evolution of the diaspora and its relationship with the State of Israel, its history and dramas as well as its cultural creativity.". ISBN 9781509564651.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 146pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 122pp. Laminated pictorial paper-covered boards; blue endpapers. 12mo. Lightly rubbed spine ends, some wear to boards. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xii,412 pp., b/w photos, notes, bibliography, index.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xiii, 273 pages : illustrations. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers sturdy and clean, corners sharp; a smudge at the upper fore-corner of the half title, else contents as new. 430 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. xvi, 128pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. xiv, 124pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 126pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. viii, 272pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Grey cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; orange endpapers. 8vo. Volume slightly skewed. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 140pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. xiv, 124pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. x, 210pp. Printed card covers. Slightly rubbed edges. Corners lightly bumped. Fold on front cover. Some underlining in pencil. 8vo.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition. x, 218pp. Glossy light card covers. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 236pp. Pictorial light card covers. 8vo. Volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 194pp, in laminated card covers. Uncorrected bound proof of the 2021 publication, After the Apocalypse. Very slightly rubbed on leading corners, else neat, clean, bright and tight. A post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride through the possible futures that the world may face. no.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Minor shelfwear otherwise clean bright tight book.

Benhabib, Seyla, 1950-. Dignity in adversity: human rights in troubled times. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2014, originally 2011, reprinted 2014, xi, 298pp., PAPERBACK, messy ink underlining on about 10 pages in chapter 9 on political theology, book is curved and first few pages corner bumped, still good as reading copy despite damage. The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial. Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader social transformations that are shaping the modern world. Rejecting the reduction of international human rights to the Trojan horse of a neo-liberal empire's bid for world power, as well as the conservative objections to legal cosmopolitanism as encroachments upon democratic sovereignty, Benhabib develops two key concepts to move beyond these false antitheses. International human rights norms need contextualization in specific polities through processes of what she calls 'democratic iterations.' Furthermore, such norms have a 'jurisgenerative power, ' in that they enable new actors to enter fields of social and political contestation; they promote new vocabularies for public claim-making and anticipate a justice to come. -- CONTENTS: Introduction : cosmopolitanism without illusions -- From The dialectic of enlightenment to The origins of totalitarianism : Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in the company of Hannah Arendt -- International law and human plurality in the shadow of totalitarianism : Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin -- Another universalism : on the unity and diversity of human rights -- Is there a human right to democracy? Beyond interventionism and indifference -- Twilight of sovereignty or the emergence of cosmopolitan norms? Rethinking citizenship in volatile times -- Claiming rights across borders : international human rights and democratic sovereignty -- Democratic exclusions and democratic iterations : dilemmas of just membership and prospects of cosmopolitan federalism -- The return of political theology : the Scarf Affair in comparative constitutional perspective in France, Germany and Turkey -- Utopia and dystopia in our times. ISBN 9780745654430.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. xii, 236pp. Laminated light card covers, some black and white photographs. 8vo. Spine sun-fading, light chipping to edges and wear to covers, crease at spine head. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. 232pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Cover has curl and half-title page is tanned along outer edge. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Fascinating and clearly written addition to both the history of dress and world history in general. Some black and white photographs in text.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 2nd Edition. vi, 142pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. Light shelf wear. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 198pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. x, 216, central section of plates. Pictorial light card covers. 8vo. Neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Inscription on front end paper. No other marks to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 277pp. How Western philosophy has left us confused about meanings of growth and how we might begin to remedy this situation. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9 x 6 inches.…

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good (+). Inscribed by the author to Peter (Townsend). No other marks or inscriptions. A few very faint creases to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 326pp. The book develops new terms for thinking about science and feminism and studies in detail the Human Genome programme. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9 x 6 inches. Signed by Author.…

OLWd. mit Rückentitel und OUmschlag, xiii+271 Seiten, 4° (16 x 24,5 cm), leichte Anstreichungen, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. x, 212pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. vii, 212pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.