Polity (publisher)
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Cambridge |
| Distribution | John Wiley and Sons |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www.polity.co.uk |
Polity is an international publisher in the social sciences and humanities. It publishes around 100 books a year in sociology, politics, philosophy, media and cultural studies, health studies, literary studies, history, anthropology and related subjects. Its books range from core textbooks to cutting-edge scholarly work. Polity publishes some of the world's leading thinkers in social and political theory and philosophy.
Polity also publishes nonfiction for a general readership, including history, biography, politics and current affairs. Its biographies include Joachim Radkau's Max Weber, Fidel Castro, Albert Einstein, Joachim Fest's Albert Speer, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Mike Tyson, Muhammed Ali, and David Beckham.
Polity is an independent publisher that was established in 1984. Its editorial offices are located in Cambridge in the UK; it also has offices in Oxford, UK, and in Boston, USA. Polity's books are sold and distributed under the Polity imprint throughout the world.
Authors
- Theodor Adorno
- Brian Barry
- Jean Baudrillard
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Ulrich Beck
- Walter Benjamin
- Norberto Bobbio
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Alex Callinicos
- Manuel Castells
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Hélène Cixous
- Jacques Derrida
- Georges Duby
- Norbert Elias
- Amitai Etzioni
- Harold Garfinkel
- Anthony Giddens
- Jürgen Habermas
- Stuart Hall
- Jacques Lacan
- Primo Levi
- Juliet Mitchell
- Serge Moscovici
- Toni Negri
- Carole Pateman
- Paul Ricoeur
- Jeremy Rifkin
- Richard Rorty
- Tzvetan Todorov
- Alain Touraine
- Loic Wacquant
- Slavoj Žižek
- Paul Virilio