Peter Wagner is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence

Le progrès n'a aujourd'hui plus d'attrait. Il ne fait plus consensus pour les " progressistes ".Le doute légitime vis-à-vis du progrès technique et économique a renforcé, à son insu, le discours hégémonique sur l'absence d'alternatives et sur la fin de l'histoire. Afin...
Editeur : La Découverte
Parution : 2016-10-06
Collection : L'horizon des possibles
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Télécharger le livre :  Carbon Societies

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Progress

The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Fundamental Solutions of Linear Partial Differential Operators

This monograph provides the theoretical foundations needed for the construction of fundamental solutions and fundamental matrices of (systems of) linear partial differential equations. Many illustrative examples also show techniques for finding such solutions in terms...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-08-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-04-29
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Modernity as Experience and Interpretation

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Modernity

We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book. Wagner begins by returning to the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18

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Télécharger le livre :  A History and Theory of the Social Sciences

Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the 'organization of modernity', in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the 'rationalistic revolution' of the 'golden age' of capitalism in...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2001-07-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Theorizing Modernity

This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2001-01-22

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