Chris Turner Bücher

'EU Law' will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your EU law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for: The constitution of EU law, its institutions, the sources of EU law and the means of enforcement; the relationship with national law; the law of the single market EU competition law EU discrimination law and other social policy; and much more.

Unlocking the Law is the groundbreaking series of textbooks with a unique approach to the study of law. Designed specifically to make the subject matter accessible, the text includes features, activities, key facts charts, diagrams, and clear headings and sub-headings to aid students in understanding the different areas within their course. Unlocking the Law textbooks have been written specifically to ensure that readers understand fully the concepts required and are able to apply them with confidence. All titles in the series follow the same format and include the same features so students can move easily from one subject to another. The series covers all the core subjects required by the Bar Council and the Law Society for entry onto professional qualifications. Unlocking the Law remains the most original and accessible textbook series available.

Exploring the evolution of thought, this collection showcases the essays and interviews of Roland Barthes, a pivotal 20th-century philosopher known for his innovative approach to cultural criticism. Spanning five volumes, the work includes Barthes' reflections on mass culture, literary semiology, and interactions with contemporaries like Derrida. Translator Chris Turner brings these significant writings to English readers for the first time, beginning with "A Very Fine Gift," which encapsulates Barthes' theoretical inquiries throughout his career.

Masculine, Feminine, Neuter focuses on Roland Barthes' insights into literature, exploring his relationships with peers and influences across various languages and eras. This volume is part of a comprehensive five-volume collection, showcasing Barthes' evolution as a cultural critic and his transition from structuralism to literary semiology. The essays, interviews, and reviews highlight his innovative approach and enduring impact on literary theory, making this collection a significant resource for understanding his contributions to 20th-century thought.

This book is both a personal journey and an introduction to the cinema cultures of Africa. A book about the politics of cultural survival, it is also a major overview of African cinema and television.The first part of the book traces the development of African cinema - from colonization to Afrocentrism. The author examines this development through a variety of fundamental the decolonization of the imagination; the quest for legendary African origins and the mobilization of African cultural values. The second part of the book analyses specific films, particularly through narrative and in terms of their African specificity - in the use of silence, orality and humour. Finally, the author explores the social and economic contexts of the African cinema and television industry - including its often vexed relations with the West and the problems of production and distribution African film-makers face.Exploring the achievements and challenges of those who seek to affirm African cultural values through film, the book also covers the African television industry and African-American cinema. It includes interviews with film-makers, stills from the films and, ultimately, a plea for seeing and respecting the otherness of the Other. Winner of the French National Film Centre's best filmbook of 1997 and now available in four languages, this is book which takes us into a process of learning how to look.

Baudrillard’s work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so clearly played out as in the Cool Memories series.Here again, in this fourth collection of fragments and sketches, Baudrillard’s stance is less that of the interventionist intellectual analysing the world as critical subject than of the barely participant observer, an object among objects, an ‘internal exile’, watching the world ‘world itself’ with such fierce insistence, yet registering with acuity our general deficit of reality and meaning.

A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental concepts from a key intellectual—now updated Written by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state. Etienne Balibar opens a gateway into the thought of one of history’s great minds. In this updated edition to this now classic work, Balibar has added a substantial introduction and new material. Complete with key “information boxes” for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand, this remains the best available introduction to the most important thinker of the past 200 years.

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter – not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined with high-tech resources, constitutes an unprecedented assault on an over-sophisticated and vulnerable West. This new edition is up-dated with the essays ‘Hypotheses on Terrorism’ and ‘Violence of the Global’.

Ein Reisebericht : Amerika- die primitive Gesellschaft der Zukunft Jean Baudrillard lässt sich auf seiner Reise durch das Land wie seine geistigen Vorfahren Crèvecoeur und Tocqueville von den gewaltigen Stadt- und Naturlandschaften zu philosophischen Reflexionen anregen. Auch bei ihm geht es um ihren Symbolwert für Amerika als verwirklichte Utopie. Doch stellt sich dieses Problem heute anders als vor zweihundert Jahren: Einst ging es um pursuit of happiness, um das optimistische Streben nach Glück innerhalb einer idealen Staatsform. Am Ende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts sind in Amerika die politischen, materiellen und sexuellen Dimensionen der Freiheit in geradezu obszönem Ausmaß realisiert, so dass die Frage nunmehr lautet: „What are you doing after the orgy?“ Sind wir an einem Ende der Geschichte angelangt? Baudrillard findet nach dem Bankrott aller großen gesellschaftstheoretischen Alternativentwürfe heute in Amerika wieder eine tabula rasa vor, die neuer Einschreibungen harrt. Und so ist für Baudrillard auch nicht mehr die fruchtbare Natur, sind nicht mehr die üppigen Prärien Amerikas Sinnbild und Symbol, sondern: seine Wüsten.

Awarded the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, this book offers a compelling exploration of contemporary political issues, blending personal narrative with incisive analysis. The author delves into the complexities of governance, societal challenges, and the impact of policy decisions on everyday life. Through engaging storytelling and critical insights, it encourages readers to reflect on the political landscape and their role within it, making it a significant contribution to political discourse.