Anthony Giddens

Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a…

This is a new and revised edition of a book which has already established itself as a basic text in social theory. The first section of the work provi…

In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociolog…

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinc…

Anthony Giddens has been described as 'the most important English social philosopher of our time'. Over twenty-five years, and even more books, he has…

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, G…

Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociolog…

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with moder…

Der Klimawandel stellt die bestehenden demokratischen Institutionen und das Instrumentarium herkömmlicher Politik vor nie gekannte Herausforderungen. …