Edici KLAS jsme v roce 1997 otevřeli souborem studií jednoho z nejvýznamnějších světových sociologů, Georga Simmela. Esejistickou formou psané úvahy o módě, nepřátelství, cizinci, studu, diskrétnosti, o roli peněz a konfliktu v moderní kultuře poskytují prostřednictvím neobvyklého pohledu na jevy každodenního života osobitý obraz moderní společnosti. Tento svazek byl vůbec prvním přiblížením Simmela českému čtenáři.
Psychoanalytický rozbor snů, sloužící k odhalení lidské psychiky. Další svazek Sebraných spisů S. F. představuje jednu ze základních vědeckých prací o výzkumu snů. Freud na základě snů, často na první pohled nesmyslných či zmatených, odhaluje lidskou psychiku, zvláště oblast nevědomí. Teorie je zde prokládána konkrétními příklady a jejich vysvětlením.
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In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab’s introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt’s intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state. In addition to analysis by Leo Strauss and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt’s work into contemporary context, this expanded edition also includes a translation of Schmitt’s 1929 lecture “The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations,” which the author himself added to the 1932 edition of the book. An essential update on a modern classic, The Concept of the Political, Expanded Edition belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political theory or philosophy.
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This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern.Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the `risk society′. The changing nature of society′s relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.
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