Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.

Updated with a timely literature review and new case studies from sports, international politics, and third party image repair.

A comprehensive examination of multiple dimensions of terrorism

Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology.

Uses concepts from social theory to explore the history and future of nuclear power in the U. S. and to explore the nature of technological change in the U. S. economy.

Elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force; proposes the idea of an interplay between compassion and reason to help address moral problems; and sketches the conditions necessary for a democratic approach to such problems.

A cultural study of the Flint community's response to its own deindustrialization, within the framework of the state, national, and international forces that produced it.

Offers a radical rethinking of the meaning of work and learning in all domains of adult life: a "best of adult education" reader.

This book summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education.

Maffesoli presents a powerful argument for understanding everyday life by examining the passional logic that animates the social body. He asserts that the "circulation of sexuality," as much as the circulation ...