Books in the Contradictions of Modernity series

Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the people of East Germany had little use for the dissident intellectuals who had helped bring it down. This book offers a look into the circumstances of this fall from grace, unique among the former Communist states.

Explores the tensions and contradictions between ideas of nationalism and internationalism as they played themselves out through the major political thinkers from the early modern period into the 19th century.

The term "new class" was coined in 1870 by Mikhail Bakunin to describe an intellectual elite that would attain political ascendency. The authors of this text put New Class theories into a broad historical framework.

Intended for students and researchers in social and political theory, this book offers a critique of theoretical approaches to social action, and rethinking of contemporary notions of human agency.