საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერებები
The Stars Down to Earth
65,00 ₾The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption. He engages with some of his most enduring themes in this seminal collection, focusing on the irrational in mass culture – from astrology to new age cults, from anti-semitism to the power of neo-fascist propaganda. He points out that the modern state and market forces serve the interest of capital in its basic form. Stephan Crook’s introduction grounds Adorno’s arguments firmly in the present where extreme religious and political organizations are commonplace – so commonplace in fact that often we deem them unworthy of our attention. Half a century ago Theodore Adorno not only recognised the dangers, but proclaimed them loudly. We did not listen then. Maybe it is not too late to listen now.
Signatures of the Visible
75,00 ₾In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America’s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema – the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in a post-modern and anti-historical culture, he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as The Shining, Dog Day Afternoon and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others.
Fifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable post-modernists he has always critiqued.
Capitalism Socialism and Democracy – Joseph A. Schumpeter
75,00 ₾Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written in the twentieth Century. Schumpeter’s contention that the seeds of capitalism’s decline were internal, and his equal and opposite hostility to centralist socialism have perplexed, engaged and infuriated readers since the book’s first publication in 1943. By refusing to become an advocate for either position, Schumpeter was able both to make his own great and original contribution and to clear the way for a more balanced consideration of the most important social movements of his and our time.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction by one of the world’s leading economists, Joseph Stiglitz.
Beast and Man
68,00 ₾Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe, and reminds us just how primitive we are in comparison to the sophistication of many animals. A veritable classic for our age, Beast and Man has helped change the way we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.
Suicide: A Study in Sociology – Emile Durkheim
68,00 ₾There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why is it more common in some places than others? In seeking answers to these questions, Durkheim wrote a work that has fascinated, challenged and informed its readers for over a hundred years. Far-sighted and trail-blazing in its conclusions, Suicide makes an immense contribution to our understanding to what must surely be one of the least understandable of acts. A brilliant study, it is regarded as one of the most important books Durkheim ever wrote.
მეცნიერება, ხელოვნება, განათლება და თანამედროვე გლობალური პრობლემები
20,00 ₾წიგნი გვაცნობს თანამედროვე კაცობრიობის წინაშე მდგარ პრობლემებს, ჩვენი პლანეტის სასიცოცხლო სივრცის უკიდურესად მძიმე მდგომარეობას, ადამიანის სულიერ გადაგვარებას, აგრესიულ დამოკიდებულებას ცოცხალი ბუნების მიმართ.
სოციოლოგიის მეთოდის წესები
25,00 ₾ემილ დიურკემი, ფრანგი სოციოლოგი და ფილოსოფოსი, ფრანგული სოციოლოგიის ფუძემდებელი, თხზულებაში „სოციოლოგიის მეთოდის წესები“ საგანგებოდ იკვლევს იმ მეთოდსა და წესებს, რომელთა მეშვეობითაც შესაძლებელია სოციალური მოვლენების განსაკუთრებული ბუნების შეცნობა და შეფასება.
ქართველი ერის სკოლა
36,60 ₾ოლივერ რაისნერის „ქართველი ერის სკოლა“ მრავალწლიანი კვლევის საფუძველზე მოგვითხრობს ქართველთა შორის წერა-კითხვის გამავრცელებელი საზოგადოების — პირველი ქართული საზოგადოებრივი ორგანიზაციის — შექმნისა და მოღვაწეობის ისტორიას.წიგნი აღწერს, თუ როგორ შეძლო ადამიანების მცირე ჯგუფმა ეროვნული იდეის გამოღვიძება, ცოდნის, განათლებისა და კულტურის გავრცელება, ქართველთა რამდენიმე თაობისთვის იმედისა და შთაგონების მიცემა.
ხასიათები
24,95 ₾თეოფრასტოსის „ხასიათები“ 30 ერთმანეთისგან მეტ-ნაკლებად განსხვავებული, განზოგადებული პორტრეტისაგან შედგება და ბერძნულ ყოველდღიურ ყოფას ასახავს. ამ პატარა ნაწარმოებების კითხვისას თვალწინ წარმოგვიდგება ცოცხალი პერსონაჟი ანტიკური ყოველდღიურობიდან, ადამიანური ნაკლოვანებებით, ზოგჯერ უკულტურო ჩვევებითა და ქცევით, თუმცა ჩვენ არ გვაშფოთებს თეოფრასტოსის უხეში ნატურალიზმი, რადგან ეს ცოცხალი ადამიანის ჩვენებაა – ჩანახატი ნატურიდან.
თეოფრასტორი არისტოტელეს მოწაფე იყო და, როგორც მწერალი, უეჭველად აგრძელებს არისტოტელეს ხაზს, თუმცა, მასწავლებლისგან განსხვავებით, რომლის სტილიც მკაცრი და მეცნიერულია, მოწაფის სტილი რაღაც საშუალოა მეცნიერულსა და მხატვრულს შორის.
წიგნში აღწერილ თითოეულ განზოგადებულ პორტრეტს შესაბამისი ილუსტრაცია ახლავს, ეს კი მკითხველს ეხმარება, კიდევ უფრო ცხადად და მკაფიოდ წარმოიდგინოს თეოფრასტოსის მიერ დახასიათებული ამა თუ იმ თვისებების მქონე ადამიანი.
შეცვლის ნება : კაცები მასკულინობა და სიყვარული
20,90 ₾პატრიარქატი ბოროტებაა, რომელსაც სიყვარულით თუ დავამარცხებთ – ეს არის ამ წიგნის მთავარი დებულება, რადგან ადამიანი თავისთავად არის ღირებული და არა იმ როლებისთვის, რომლებსაც ასრულებს ან უნდა ასრულებდეს.
ჩვენი საუკუნის გარიჟრაჟზე დაწერილი ეს ტექსტი ინტერსექციური ფემინიზმის ნიმუშია. ის გვეუბნება, რომ პატრიარქატი ყველანაირ სოციალურ ქსოვილში კი არის გამჯდარი, თუმცა მისი ბუნება კულტურიდან კულტურამდე და ათწლეულიდან ათწლეულამდე იცვლება. ამიტომაც არის, რომ კითხვისას რაღაც გვეცნობა და გულს გვტკენს, რაღაც კი უცხოდ ან გადალახულად გვეჩვენება და შვებას გვგვრის.
ეს წიგნი ბეწვის ხიდზე გავლის ფენომენალური მაგალითიცაა. ამერიკელი ბელ ჰუკსი ყველა სქესის, გენდერისა თუ პოლიტიკური მრწამსის მკითხველის განაწყენებას რისკავს და როგორღაც, საბოლოოდ, ყველას გადმობირებას ახერხებს. ჩვენ უნდა გამოვააშკარაოთ როლი, რომელსაც ქალები პატრიარქალური კულტურის შენარჩუნებასა და დაცვაში თამაშობენ, რათა პატრიარქატი ქალებისა და კაცების მიერ თანასწორად მხარდაჭერილ სისტემად ვაღიაროთ, იმის მიუხედავად, რომ ამ სისტემით კაცები მეტად ხეირობენ. პატრიარქალური სისტემის ჩამოშლა და შეცვლა ის სამუშაოა, რომელიც კაცებმა და ქალებმა ერთად უნდა შეასრულონ.
The Philosophy of Money
82,00 ₾With a new foreword by Charles Lemert
‘Its greatness…lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.’ – Fredric Jameson
In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange, human personality, the position of women, and individual freedom. Simmel also offers us prophetic insights into the consequences of the modern money economy and the division of labour, in particular the processes of alienation and reification in work and urban life.
An immense and profound piece of work it demands to be read today and for years to come as a stunning account of the meaning, use and culture of money.
Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was born in Berlin, the youngest of seven children. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin and was one of the first generation of great German sociologists that included Max Weber.
Distinction
82,00 ₾Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. Bourdieu’s subject is the study of culture, and his objective is most to provide an answer to the problems raised by Kant’s Critique of Judgment by showing why no judgment of taste is innocent.”A complex, rich, intelligent book. It will provide the historian of the future with priceless materials and it will bring an essential contribution to sociological theory.”— Fernand Braudel “One of the more distinguished contributions to social theory and research in recent years . . . There is in this book an account of culture, and a methodology of its study, rich in implication for a diversity of fields of social research. The work in some ways redefines the whole scope of cultural studies.— Anthony Giddens, Partisan Review”A book of extraordinary intelligence.” — Irving Louis Horowitz, Commonweal“Bourdieu’s analysis transcends the usual analysis of conspicuous consumption in two by showing that specific judgments and choices matter less than an esthetic outlook in general and by showing, moreover, that the acquisition of an esthetic outlook not only advertises upper-class prestige but helps to keep the lower orders in line. In other words, the esthetic world view serves as an instrument of domination. It serves the interests not merely of status but of power. It does this, according to Bourdieu, by emphasizing individuality, rivalry, and ‘distinction’ and by devaluing the well-being of society as a whole.”— Christopher Lasch, Vogue
The Culture Industry
68,00 ₾The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno’s thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today’s world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno’s work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.
Vision and Difference
65,00 ₾Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but also re-inserts into art history their female contemporaries – women artists such as Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.
Pollock discusses the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the object of the male gaze. Now published with a new introduction, Vision and Difference is as powerful as ever for all those seeking not only to understand the history of the feminine in art, but also to develop new strategies for representation for the future.
The Female Nude
75,00 ₾The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead’s The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status?
In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies around the patriarchy, objectification and pornography. Nead brilliantly illustrates the two opposing poles occupied by the female nude in the history of art; at one extreme the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the other, spilling over into the degraded and the obscene. What both have in common, however, is the aim of containing the female body.
Gender Trouble
80,00 ₾One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, ‘essential’ notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category ‘woman’ and continues in this vein with examinations of ‘the masculine’ and ‘the feminine’. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler’s concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.
Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
The Captive Wife
66,00 ₾In 1965, at the age of twenty-nine, the young sociologist Hannah Gavron took her own life. A year later, the book based on the research she carried out for her thesis was published as The Captive Wife. Based on first-hand accounts of the lives of working-class and middle-class women in Kentish Town in London, it was one of the earliest works of British, sociological feminism and has since become a feminist classic.
Arguing that motherhood stripped women of independence as it often brought an end to paid work, Gavron explores how their values and aspirations as women came into conflict with the traditional role they had to play as mothers.
Written in simple prose and fair-minded in its approach, it became an inspirational book for many mothers, feminists and activists seeking equality for women and remains a vital book today.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Ann Oakley.
Stone Age Economics
65,00 ₾Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins’s Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original “affluent society.”
Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. A radical study of tribal economies, domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large, Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture rather than behaviour, in a class with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence. Sahlins concludes, controversially, that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may actually have been better, healthier and more fulfilled than the millions enjoying the affluence and luxury afforded by the economics of modern industrialisation and agriculture.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Graeber, London School of Economics.
From Solon to Socrates
68,00 ₾From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military and cultural issues in the Greek world, from the early history of the Greeks, including early Sparta and the wars with Persia, to the ascendancy of Athens and the Peloponnesian War.
The Gift
65,00 ₾In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss called into question many of our social conventions and economic systems. In a world rife with runaway consumption, The Gift continues to excite and challenge.
Sex and Repression in Savage Society
65,00 ₾During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known as ‘participant-observation’. This new type of ethnographic study was to have a huge impact on the emerging discipline of anthropology. In Sex and Repression in Savage Society Malinowski applied his experiences on the Trobriand Islands to the study of sexuality, and the attendant issues of eroticism, obscenity, incest, oppression, power and parenthood. In so doing, he both utilized and challenged the psychoanalytical methods being popularized at the time in Europe by Freud and others. The result is a unique and brilliant book that, though revolutionary when first published, has since become a standard work on the psychology of sex.
Lines
65,00 ₾What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.
Ingold’s argument leads us through the music of Ancient Greece and contemporary Japan, Siberian labyrinths and Roman roads, Chinese calligraphy and the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines including archaeology, classical studies, art history, linguistics, psychology, musicology, philosophy and many others, and including more than seventy illustrations, this book takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey that will change the way we look at the world and how we go about in it.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.
The World of Goods
68,00 ₾It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and establish relationships. What is less well-known is that the pattern of their flow shapes society in fundamental ways. In this book the renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas and economist Baron Isherwood overturn arguments about consumption that rely on received economic and psychological explanations. They ask new questions about why people save, why they spend, what they buy, and why they sometimes-but not always-make fine distinctions about quality.
Instead of regarding consumption as a private means of satisfying one’s preferences, they show how goods are a vital information system, used by human beings to fulfill their intentions towards one another. They also consider the implications of the social role of goods for a new vision for social policy, arguing that poverty is caused as much by the erosion of local communities and networks as it is by lack of possessions, and contrast small-scale with large-scale consumption in the household.
A radical rethinking of consumerism, inequality and social capital, The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wilk.
“Forget that commodities are good for eating, clothing, and shelter; forget their usefulness and try instead the idea that commodities are good for thinking.” – Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood
Purity and Danger
68,00 ₾Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implications for the unclean?
In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. This book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate – from religion to social theory. With a specially commissioned preface by the author which assesses the continuing significance of the work, this Routledge Classics edition will ensure that Purity and Danger continues to challenge, question and inspire for many years to come.
Anthropology and Modern Life
68,00 ₾Franz Boas (1858–1942) is widely regarded as the founder of American anthropology. He influenced an astonishing variety of scholars and researchers, from the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, to the philosopher W. E. B. DuBois, and novelist Zora Neale Hurston. Towards the end of his life he also lectured widely in an attempt to educate the public on the dangers of Nazi ideology.
Anthropology and Modern Life demonstrates the incredibly rich and fertile range of Boas’s thought, engaging with controversies that resonate loudly today: the problem of race and racial types; heredity versus environment; the significance of intelligence tests; open versus closed societies; the ‘nature versus nurture debate’; and nationality and nationalism.
Believing passionately that science should be used to break down racial and cultural barriers, from the book’s very opening Boas shatters the myth that anthropology is simply a collection of ‘curious facts about exotic peoples’. Thanks to Boas’s influence, anthropologists and other social scientists began to see that differences among the races resulted not from physiological factors, but from historical events and circumstances, and that race itself was a cultural construct.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Regna Darnell and an Introduction and Afterword by Herbert S. Lewis, who details Franz Boas’s life, influence, and ideals.
“In writing the present book I desired to show that some of the most firmly rooted opinions of our times appear from a wider point of view as prejudices, and that a knowledge of anthropology enables us to look with greater freedom at the problems confronting our civilization.” – Franz Boas, Anthropology and Modern Life
World Prehistory: The Basics
Original price was: 69,00 ₾.55,00 ₾Current price is: 55,00 ₾.World Prehistory: The Basics tells the compelling story of human prehistory. from our African origins to the spectacular pre-industrial civilizations and cities of the more recent past.
Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and experienced writers about the past. the story begins with human origins in Africa some 6 million years ago and the spread of our remote ancestors across the Old World. Then we return to Africa and describe the emergence of Homo sapiens (modern humans) over 300.000 years ago. then. much later. their permanent settlement of Europe. Eurasia. Asia. and the Americas. From hunters and foragers. we turn to the origins of farming and animal domestication in different parts of the world after about 11.000 years ago and show how these new economies changed human existence dramatically. Five chapters tell the stories of the great pre-industrial civilizations that emerged after 5000 years before present in the Old World and the Americas. their strengths. volatility. and weaknesses. These chapters describe powerful rulers and their ideologies. also the lives of non-elites. The narratives chronicle the rise and fall of civilizations. and the devastating effects of long droughts on many of them. The closing chapter poses a question: Why is world prehistory important in the modern world? What does it tell us about ourselves?
Providing a simple. but entertaining and stimulating. account of the prehistoric past from human origins to today from a global perspective. World Prehistory: The Basics is the ideal guide to the story of our early human past and its relevance to the modern world.
Women’s Studies: The Basics
Original price was: 72,00 ₾.58,00 ₾Current price is: 58,00 ₾.Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women―past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins. this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline. exploring its global development and its relevance to our own times. A new chapter on militarization and violence provides fresh insight into trends in the contemporary world and adds to curricular significance. Reflecting the diversity of the field. core themes include:
The interdisciplinary nature of women’s studies
Core feminist theories and the feminist agenda
Issues of intersectionality: women. race. class. gender. ethnicity. and religion
Violence. militarization. security. and peace
Women. sexuality. and the body
Women’s Studies: The Basics provides an informed foundation for those new to the subject and is especially meant to guide undergraduates and postgraduates concentrating in women’s studies and gender studies. Those in related disciplines will find in it a valuable overview of and background to women-centered issues and concerns. including global ones. The work also provides an updated list of suggested reading to help in further study. classroom presentations. and written exercises.