In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyse the broad developmental features of modern societies,

Late Modernity in Crisis

Lacan on Love

This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies. The original function of law, even be

Immunitas

In many western societies today the optimism of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a deep unease and sense of foreboding. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many people feel worse off a

The Mood of the World

<p>Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text Th