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Books in the Ruth Benedict Book Series series

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  • - Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
    by Talal (Ph.D. Program in Anthropology) Asad
    £18.99 - 54.99

    In Secular Translations, anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability.

  • - Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today
    by Partha (Columbia University) Chatterjee
    £17.49 - 48.99

    Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today's dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for "the people." To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and neoliberal reforms.

  • by Joan Wallach Scott
    £17.49 - 62.99

    Joan Wallach Scott critically examines the belief that history will redeem us, revealing the implicit politics of appeals to the judgment of history. She argues that the notion of a linear, ever-improving direction of history hides the persistence of power structures and hinders the pursuit of alternative futures.

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