Polity press uk (66 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.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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.…

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.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 336pp. Laminated light card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers and text block edges, one corner a little rubbed. Neat, clean, bright and tight inside other than an previous price label inside rear cover.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Fair condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, previous owner signature to inside page, previous owner reference markings to most pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

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.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Paperback. Edges tanned. Page edges tanned but otherwise pages sound. Owner name on inside front cover. Minor wear/bumping to corners and spine ends. 216 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Fair to good condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, previous owner signature to inside page, previous owner reference markings to some pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Good condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, ex library book, otherwise in a good readable condition.

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

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

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Reprint. xii, 288pp. Laminated, illustrated light card covers. 8vo. Very gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

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.…

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.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. 1ª Edición. Good condition, no damages. Some pencil marks.

Zustand: Gut. v, 290 pages ; 22 cm. Innen sauberer, guter Zustand. Softcover, Broschur mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. (Evtl. auch Kleber- und/oder Etikettenreste, sowie -abdrücke durch abgelöste Bibliotheksschilder). B09-02-02L|[X1855] Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400. …

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. 175pp. Light wear and toning, near fine.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. xxi, 201pp. Tiny scuff mark on cover, else fine in wrappers.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. 265pp. Modest edgewear, else fine in wrappers.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Translated by Mark Ritter. 189pp. Trade paperback. Wrappers modestly rubbed and edgeworn, with small creases, near fine.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Translated by Mark Ritter. 189pp. Wraps modestly rubbed, near fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. * PUBLISHER: POLITY PRESS YEAR:2018 * ISBN/SBN: 9781509516612 * No OF PAGES: 200 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD *OTHER: *PROOF* THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE COVER IS LIGHTLY RUBBED AND CREASED WITH MILD BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS. THE SPINE IS SLIGHTLY RUBBED WITH MINOR BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE BINDING IS FIRM. TO THE TOP OF THE FFEP IS A PENNED WRITTEN NAME. THE PAGES ARE CLEAR AND CRISP. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK.…

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. The cover has general wearing to the corners and edges and there is rubbing to the main body. The text is clean, bright and tight. The half title page has a name written in black ink present along the top edge. Used.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.(viii)+248. 21.5cm. Notes. Index. Soft covers. Good clean copy.(' . the meaning of pornography to women and exposes the intellectual corruption of those who defend it).