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All this underlines two points: first, the urgency of a framework to analyse the world we inhabit under the risk regime, the world risk society, and to reveal the hidden connections, likenesses, oppositions and new lines of conflict between Western and non-Western countries; second, the need to break the spell of the work society and to outline the basic features and visions of a European model for the post-work society.
The Brave New World of Work
Ulrich Beck
One suspects that academic philosophers have made an obvious error: the error of supposing that only those disciplines which result in true propositions have any bearing upon truth.
Thinking With Concepts
John Wilson
The importance of understanding social and economic processes as having their own internal dynamics cannot be overstated, for it recognizes that there are dialectical logics of development at play within these relationships, that influential external processes abound, and that social and economic systems have their own life and are made up of the lives of individual humans (themselves the subject of their own unfolding internal processes).
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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