wyszukanych pozycji: 39
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Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal and Radical Debate Over Schooling
ISBN: 9780710213181 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack in the USA and in other industrialized countries.
Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack in the USA and in ...
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277,50 zł |
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Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future
ISBN: 9781594513114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism. Aronowitz draws on his vast knowledge of history and political theory and from currents of political change around the globe, from the traditions of the European left to the newest political trends in Latin America that have challenged the "death of socialism. Demonstrating why Democrats lose when they cling to centrism and compromise their core values, this book shows us what a new left party in America would look like in an era of...
Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new autho...
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230,37 zł |
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Education Still Under Siege
ISBN: 9780897893114 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life. This revised edition of the 1985 best-seller speaks eloquently to the need to attend to ever-present inequalities of education in the light of new political correctness, technology, and curricula.
Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding... |
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280,16 zł |
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Science as Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society
ISBN: 9780816616596 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Science as Power was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Science has established itself as not merely the dominant but the only legitimate form of human knowledge. By tying its truth claims to methodology, science has claimed independence from the influence of social and historical conditions. Here, Aronowitz asserts that the norms of science are by no means self-evident and that science is best seen... Science as Power was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again a... |
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282,80 zł |
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Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
ISBN: 9780231135412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Written by Stanley Aronowitz, a leading sociologist and critic of American culture and politics, Taking It Big reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that...
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging th...
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154,35 zł |
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The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, Politics, and Culture in Marxist Theory
ISBN: 9780275905781 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stanley Aronowitz lays bare the fundamental logical problems in Marxist theory with respect to nature, gender and race relations, the concept of class, and historical time. Aronowitz offers an approach towards a new way of thinking about these problems.
Stanley Aronowitz lays bare the fundamental logical problems in Marxist theory with respect to nature, gender and race relations, the concept of class...
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584,45 zł |
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Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters
ISBN: 9781594515026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age where school districts have imposed testing, teachers must teach to test, and both teacher and student are robbed of their autonomy and creativity. The crisis extends to higher education, where all but a few elite institutions are becoming increasingly narrowly focused and vocational in...
In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and con...
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811,71 zł |
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Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780816632947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With increasing globalization, the meaning and role of the nation-state are in flux. At the same time, state theory, which might help to explain such a trend, has fallen victim to the general decline of radical movements, particularly the crisis in Marxism. This volume seeks to enrich and complicate current political debates by bringing state theory back to the fore and assessing its relevance to the social phenomena and thought of our day. Throughout, it becomes clear that, whether confronting the challenges of postmodern and neo-institutionalist theory or the crisis of the welfare state and...
With increasing globalization, the meaning and role of the nation-state are in flux. At the same time, state theory, which might help to explain such ...
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130,87 zł |
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Live Theory: The Aronowitz Reader
ISBN: 9781999798154 / Miękka / 17-09-2024 / 348 str. Książka dostępna od: 17-09-2024 |
Planowany termin premiery książki: 17-09-2024
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204,24 zł |
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Education Still Under Siege: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780897893107 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life. This revised edition of the 1985 best-seller speaks eloquently to the need to attend to ever-present inequalities of education in the light of new political correctness, technology, and curricula.
Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding... |
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840,05 zł |
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How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
ISBN: 9780300105049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society, Stanley Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force. Defining class as the power of social groups to make a difference, he explains that social groups such as labor movements, environmental activists, and feminists become classes when they make demands that change the course of history. "With How Class Works Aronowitz puts the subject of social class squarely on the intellectual agenda-though in a new, inclusive, and dynamic form. Like his influential False Promises, How Class Works is both intellectually...
Although Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society, Stanley Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force. Defining c...
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237,56 zł |
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The Jobless Future
ISBN: 9780816674510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates. This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today's dismal economic climate. Fully updated and with a new introduction by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future warns that jobs as we know them-long-term, with benefits-are an endangered species.
High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates. This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future
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125,63 zł |
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Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters
ISBN: 9781594515033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age where school districts have imposed testing, teachers must teach to test, and both teacher and student are robbed of their autonomy and creativity. The crisis extends to higher education, where all but a few elite institutions are becoming increasingly narrowly focused and vocational in their...
In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over ...
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256,56 zł |
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Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future
ISBN: 9781594513107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism. Aronowitz draws on his vast knowledge of history and political theory and from currents of political change around the globe, from the traditions of the European left to the newest political trends in Latin America that have challenged the "death of socialism. Demonstrating why Democrats lose when they cling to centrism and compromise their core values, this book shows us what a new left party in America would look like in an era of...
Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new autho...
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968,82 zł |
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False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
ISBN: 9780822311980 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This study of the American working class traces its historical development from post-Civil War times and shows why radical movements have failed to overcome the forces that tend to divide groups of workers from one another. The rise of labour unions is analyzed, as well as their decline as a force for social change. Aronowitz's introduction situates the book in the context of developments in current scholarship and the epilogue discusses the effects of recent economic and political changes in the American labour movement.
This study of the American working class traces its historical development from post-Civil War times and shows why radical movements have failed to ov...
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196,29 zł |
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The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning
ISBN: 9780807031230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Americans can't get a good education for love or money, argues Stanley Aronowitz in this groundbreaking look at the structure and curriculum of higher education. Moving beyond the canon wars begun in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Aronowitz offers a vision for true higher learning that places a well-rounded education back at the center of the university's mission.
Americans can't get a good education for love or money, argues Stanley Aronowitz in this groundbreaking look at the structure and curriculum of higher...
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128,02 zł |
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The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement
ISBN: 9781784783006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The decline of the American union movement--and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming--the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory...
The decline of the American union movement--and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor Union membership in the United States has ...
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82,64 zł |
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Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems
ISBN: 9780415907385 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In these essays, Stanley Aronovitz examines some of the crucial cultural shifts associated with the crisis of modernity. Against the predominant view that Great Art possesses intrinsic aesthetic value, the author contends that aesthetics has itself been surpassed. In the introductory essay, Aronowitz argues aesthetics, like mathematics education, is a powerful sorting machine which preserves the hierarchical system of cultural and economic privilege. In his essays of Bakhtin and Williams, he stresses that their work shows literary and other artistic works as forms of social knowledge; even...
In these essays, Stanley Aronovitz examines some of the crucial cultural shifts associated with the crisis of modernity. Against the predominant view ...
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136,11 zł |
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Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
ISBN: 9780231135405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Written by Stanley Aronowitz, a leading sociologist and critic of American culture and politics, Taking It Big reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that...
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging th...
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507,15 zł |
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Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
ISBN: 9781592131389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Discusses why it is no longer true that economic growth leads to job growth.
Discusses why it is no longer true that economic growth leads to job growth.
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121,22 zł |