Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: anthony elliott

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  • INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT / CHARLES LEMERT
    In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond. Fully revised and updated, this second edition has been expanded to consider the most recent developments in social theory, including a new chapter on the digital r...

    $1,100.00

  • CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    Now in its third edition, Anthony Elliott’s comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory. Fully revised and updated, the book examines the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to posthumanism, and from feminism and post-structuralism to globalization theory and beyond. Classical debates in social t...

    $1,100.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE SOCIAL SCIENCE HANDBOOK OF AI
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI is a landmark volume providing students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social sciences of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as surveying how the digital revolution – from supercomputers and social media to advanced automation and robotics – is transforming s...

    $1,260.00

  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: ANTHONY ELLIOTT: EARLY WORKS IN SOCIAL THEORY
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    The volumes in this set, originally published between 1999 and 2003, draw together early works in social theory by leading sociologist Anthony Elliott. The collection covers some of his major works in the field of social theory, with a paticular focus on psychoanalysis, and social theorists within the area of sociology. The works in this set make accessible previously unavailab...

    $4,800.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THEORY
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory is fully revised and updated to provide students, teachers and researchers with ...

    $1,320.00

  • REINVENTION
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    Ours is the era of "reinvention". From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery and from corporate rebranding to urban redesign: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary – especially boundaries of the self. In this new, updated edition of this remarkable book, An...

    $680.00

  • SOCIAL THEORY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN TRANSITION
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations between self and society, Elliot argues for the importance of imagination and ...

    $1,000.00

  • CRITICAL VISIONS
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    Originally published in 2003, Critical Visions develops a wide-ranging analysis of key issues and debates in contemporary social theory. Drawing social theory, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis together in a bold configuration, the book challenges the widespread view that social theory seems to have lost its way as a result of the diversification of conceptual approaches. Th...

    $920.00

  • PSYCHOANALYSIS AT ITS LIMITS
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis have to play in the cultural debate in postmodern times? Originally published in 2000, Psychoanalysis at its Limits offers a stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of psychoanalysis in the postmodern age. It prese...

    $980.00

  • THE CULTURE OF AI
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but rather massive changes in the here-and-now of everyday life. In The Culture of AI,...

    $1,160.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CELEBRITY STUDIES
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    Ours is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the twenty-first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy seductions. But there is also a darker side. Celebrity culture is littered from end to end with addictions, pathologies, neuroses, even suicides. Why, as a society, are we held in thrall to...

    $1,320.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism. This path-breaking Handbook offers students new ways of understanding the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, and of the social, cultural and political possibilities of psychoa...

    $1,360.00

  • SUBJECT TO OURSELVES
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves, a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as the basis for a fresh reassessment of the nature of modernity and postmodernism. Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, interpersonal relations, culture and globalization, the author develops a novel account of postmode...

    $1,600.00

  • IDENTITY TROUBLES
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations – the new electronic economy, digital worlds, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence - generatesa metamorphosis across the force-field ...

    $1,160.00

  • ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE SOCIAL THEORY
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory breaks new ground in providing a detailed, systematic appraisal of the major traditions of social theory prominent in Japan today – from theories of identity and individualization to globalization studies. The volume introduces readers to the rich diversity of social-theoretical critique in contemporary Japanese soc...

    $1,560.00

  • THE CONTEMPORARY BAUMAN
    ELLIOTT, ANTHONY
    This text covers Bauman’s contribution to sociology and social theory. This ideal teaching text analyzes Bauman's shift from a sociology of postmodernity to liquid modernity, and provides a critical assessment of the contemporary Bauman, appraising his novel theory of liquid modernity in terms of its implications for self-identity, interpersonal relationships, culture, communic...

    $1,420.00

  • MOBILE LIVES
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT / JOHN URRY
    How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinar...

    $1,420.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SOCIAL THEORY
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    The Routledge Companion to Social Theory provides an authoritative, comprehensive and provocative introduction to the key traditions of thought in social theory today. This ground-breaking reference work brings together major contributors, both established and emergent new voices, to reflect on the ways in which social theory sheds light on the contemporary social world. Repres...

    $920.00

  • THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT / PROF CHARLES LEMERT
    This is a new and revised edition of a book which has had a major impact upon the social sciences and public political debate. Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert's THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM inspired readers with the dramatic suggestion that 'the reinvention craze' - from self-help and therapy culture to management restructurings and corporate downsizings - is central to a 'new indi...

    $1,460.00

  • SOCIAL THEORY SINCE FREUD
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT
    In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theorists such as Adorno, Marcuse, Lacan and Lyotard have deployed psychoanalysis to politicise issues such as desire, sexuality, repression and identity, Elliott assesses the gains and losses arising from this appropriation of psycho...

    $1,320.00

  • PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CONTEXT
    EDITED BY ANTHONY ELLIOTT AND STEPHEN FROSH
    During the last decade and a half there have been dramatic changes in psychoanalytic theory, as well as in cultural, social and political theory. Psychoanalysis in Contexts examines these changes and explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and theory. The volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners in psychoanalysis to develop a unique rethinking of the r...

    $1,000.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT / CHARLES LEMERT
    In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalization and beyond. When first published, the book’s wide range set new standards for introductory textbooks – social theorists discussed include Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, ...

    $1,199.00

  • LA CULTURA DE LA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL
    ELLIOTT, ANTHONY / ESCRITOR
    En esta obra por demás innovadora, el sociólogo formado en Cambridge, Anthony Elliott, sostiene que mucho de lo que popularmente se sabe de la inteligencia artificial es temerario o simplemente erróneo. ¿El motivo? La revolución de la inteligencia artificial no tiene que ver tanto con cíborgs y superrobots en el futuro, sino con grandes cambios en el aquí y el ahora de la vida ...
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    $469.00