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  • UTOPIA: SOCIAL THEORY AND THE FUTURE
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    UTOPIA: SOCIAL THEORY AND THE FUTURE
    KEITH TESTER
    In the light of globalization's failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun for alternative visions of the future; alternatives to the free market and to rampant capitalism. Indeed, although these alternatives may not be conceived of in terms of being a 'perfec...

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  • THE FLANEUR (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    THE FLANEUR (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    KEITH TESTER
    Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. The flâneur’s activities of strolling and loitering ...

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  • ANIMALS AND SOCIETY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    ANIMALS AND SOCIETY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    KEITH TESTER
    Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves from incidents like the medieval execution of pigs to a discussion of the politics and strategies of modern rights organisations. The book also presents radical interpretations of nineteenth-century animal welfare laws, and the acco...

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  • CIVIL SOCIETY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    CIVIL SOCIETY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    KEITH TESTER
    This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society created a milieu which was at once the location and defence of social self-sufficiency in the world. The book identifies the origins of civil society in the work of Locke, Hobbes, ...

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  • MEDIA CULTURE & MORALITY
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    MEDIA CULTURE & MORALITY
    KEITH TESTER
    First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author seizes upon the disparity between the enormous production of books in the field and the lack of substantive insights generate...

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  • PANIC
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    PANIC
    KEITH TESTER
    Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop an original analysis of panic in contemporary social life. Bringing together acad...

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  • THE INHUMAN CONDITION
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    THE INHUMAN CONDITION
    KEITH TESTER
    This book offers a major interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships, encompassing the work of thinkers such as Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel. ...

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  • THE TWO SOVEREIGNS
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    THE TWO SOVEREIGNS
    KEITH TESTER
    This book is invariably stimulating, containing many interesting and provocative ideas on issues central both to social theory and to making sense of the world(s) in which we live. It develops a series of original images or metaphors - gardens v. allotments, double strangers and so on - as aids to understanding social processes. Lively, bold and assured it will interest student...

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  • THE LIFE AND TIMES OF POST-MODERNITY
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    THE LIFE AND TIMES OF POST-MODERNITY
    KEITH TESTER
    'Postmodernity' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements from 'postmodernity' are misplaced. 'Postmodernity' is not the harbinger or expressi...

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