Böcker av Craig Calhoun

Craig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor argue that democracies have embraced individual freedom at the expense of equality and solidarity, economic growth at the expense of democracy. Rebuilding local communities and large-scale institutions is now crucial, with attention to the public good beyond private advantage or ingroup loyalty.

Emphasizes the coexistence of different kinds of radicalism, their tensions, and their implications. This title reveals the importance of radicalism's links to pre-industrial culture and attachments to place and local communities, as well as the ways in which journalists who had been pushed out of "respectable" politics connected to artisans.

* Jurgen Habermas is among the most influential and important social theorists in the world today. * This volume represents the first sustained engagement with Habermas's recent turn to religion as a focus of philosophical inquiry.

"We want neither gods nor emperors", went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989. This book offers a carefully crafted analysis of the student movement, its leadership, its eventual suppression, and its continuing legacy.

The new form of "humanitarian government" emerging from natural disasters and military occupations that reduces people to mere lives to be rescued.

Treating cities as laboratories of the modern world, Infrastructures of the Urban examines how they are made and how they should be remade.

Questions the social bases of cosmopolitanism and the continuing importance of nationalism. This book addresses the ways in which cosmopolitan theories may be biased from the standpoint of European and American elites. It is useful for students, and social scientists researching in the disciplines of sociology, politics and cultural studies.