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Ours is the era of "reinvention". From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery and from corporate rebranding to urb...
An Introduction
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott examines the major social theoretical tradit...
‘Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, ...
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1999 and 2003, draw together early works in social theory by leading sociologist Anthony Elliott...
What reviewers said about the first edition. "I enthusiastically recommend this important book. It will stimulate much needed reaction and interaction...
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoret...
New Directions in Social Theory
Drawing social theory, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis together in a bold configuration, Elliott challenges the widespread view that social theor...
An introduction
In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to ...
Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution
In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial i...
This new, updated edition provides a lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self-identity in the so...
This book sets out, with remarkable clarity and insight, the contradictions of mobile societies and of mobile lives. Such mobilities are full of dilem...
The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships
Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine in...
Traversing Social Imaginaries
In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theo...
The Emotional Costs of Globalization REVISED EDITION
In this dazzling book, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the culture of the 'new individualism' generated by global capitalism, and develop a...
The Emotional Costs of Globalization
This fascinating and easy to read book offers new insights into the interplay between increasing globalization and the rise of the new individualism. ...
Deadly Worlds offers an original analysis of one of the unsolved questions of the current age: what are the emotional costs and possibilities of globa...
How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives
From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore to Tehran, the demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Botox injections, collagen fillers, bre...
Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva
Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the...
Fear in the Digital Age
Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution...
""The Mourning of John Lennon" is the deepest and most thoughtful book on popular culture and the culture of celebrity to appear in a long time. It ex...
This book examines current debates about modernity and postmodernity from the viewpoint of psychoanalytic theory, using a diverse set of case studies ...
From Heaven to Jerusalem
The story of the birth of Jesus Christ from the begining plan in Heaven to the pregnancy ending at the Temple of Jerusalem....
Upholding the Seven Principles of Public Life in Regulation : Sixteenth Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
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Work on 'identity' has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. This volume provides a detailed analysis of those changes, by confronting the impac...
An Opportunity to Improve Our Wellbeing
Navigating the Postmodern Turn
Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis have...
Benghazi: "Day of Rage" Through an Architect's Eyes
With gunfire outside his window and black smoke rolling into the sky from the nearby police station, Mr. Elliott (international architect) shares with...