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  • The World We Have Created

    Climate, Democracy and Knowledge

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Series series A New Order of Social Things
    Addressing the complex interplay between climate change, democratic governance, and scientific knowledge in the Anthropocene era, this book focuses on how political systems respond to the global ecological crisis and to what extent they are structurally capable of doing so.The World We Have Created: Climate, Democracy and Knowledge details how the de-democratization of ecological decision-making ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A World Made of Knowledge

    Pathways into the Knowledge Society

    by Nico Stehr, Alexander Ruser ...
    More than three decades after Gernot Böhme and Nico Stehr began to explore modern 'knowledge societies', the concept has transformed sociological inquiry into the dynamics of contemporary society. But even a quick internet search shows that the term is not only limited to academic circles. Moreover, international bodies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Paul F. Lazarsfeld, An Empirical Theory of Action

    Collected Writings

    Edited by Christian Fleck, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a critical introduction to the key writings of Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), edited by two prominent sociologists. It includes Lazarsfeld's early work on youth and occupation, which shows the intellectual influences of Austro-Marxism, academic psychology, and the philosophy of the Vienna Circle, and how they were applied to specific social issues. They also show how Lazarsfeld's ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Society and Knowledge in a Turbulent Era

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Series series In a Turbulent Era series
    Society and Knowledge in a Turbulent Era explores the pivotal role of knowledge in contemporary society. Nico Stehr emphasizes its importance in social theory, economic systems and global challenges, particularly in the context of the knowledge economy and knowledge capitalism.Adopting a diagnostic theoretical approach to analyze rapidly changing societal conditions, Stehr argues that knowledge is ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Science in Society

    Climate Change and Climate Policies

    by Nico Stehr, Hans von Storch ...
    Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr, the authors of this anthology, reflect on the popular and scientific perception and construction of the phenomenon of climate, climate change, climate policy and the impact of climate on society. In the early 1990s, the authors encountered notable resistance to the idea of climate change, especially as they wrote about the urgent need for societal adaptation. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Knowledge Capitalism

    by Nico Stehr ...
    In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era. It is not only because of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that we are living in a new epoch; it is the idea that modern societies increasingly constitute comprehensive knowledge societies under intensive capitalism, whereby the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Modern German Sociology

    Edited by Volker Meja, Dieter Misgeld, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II. Included are sections from such out-standing figures as Theodor Adorno, Alexander Mitscherlich, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, and Ralf Darendorf. The editors have arranged the essays into five sections that express their view of the chief aspects of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges

    by Nico Stehr, Amanda Machin ...
    Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is becoming hard to ignore the potential repercussions of a changing climate, and the uneven impact of certain forms of human society and energy cultures that risk undermining their own environmental ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Knowledge Politics

    Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology

    by Nico Stehr ...
    This book argues that new technologies and society's response to them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge politics." Nico Stehr describes Western society's response to a host of new technologies developed only since the 1970s, including genetic experiments, test-tube human conception, recombinant DNA, and embryonic stem cells; genetically engineered foods; neurogenetics and ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Society of Terror

    Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps

    by Paul Neurath, Nico Stehr, Christian Fleck ...
    During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners who were willing to go into exile and the help of friends on the outside who helped him obtain a visa. He fled to Sweden before coming to the United States in 1941. In 1943, he completed The Society of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Biotechnology

    Between Commerce and Civil Society

    by Nico Stehr ...
    "While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full range of biotechnology's implications for social science and for society at large." -Professor Volker MejaNew scientific knowledge is no longer merely the key to unlocking the secrets of nature and society ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Knowledge

    Is Knowledge Power?

    by Marian Adolf, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge in itself. How is it produced, where does it reside, and who owns it? Is knowledge always beneficial, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD