Welcome to 'Global Public Life', an open forum extending the discussions and debates that the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society (and associated Theory, Culture & Society Book Series) have been fostering in social and cultural theory, along with the wider social sciences and humanities, for over four decades.

Max Weber in Theory, Culture & Society. On the 100th Anniversary of His Death
By Matthias Wieser

Video: Martin Albrow on 'Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality'

Video: Thomas Kemple on ‘A Century after Weber and Simmel’

Review: Austin Harrington, ‘German Cosmopolitan Thought and the Idea of the West: Voices from Weimar’
Reviewed by Thomas Kemple

Terry Flew on Foucault, Weber and Neoliberal Governmentality

Review: Elettra Stimilli, ‘Il debito del vivente’
Reviewed by Matteo Pasquinelli

Review: Andreas Anter, ‘Max Weber’s Theory of the Modern State’
Reviewed by Christopher Adair-Toteff

Review: Vivian Ibraham & Margit Wunsch, ‘Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma’
Reviewed by Jerome Braun
TCS Special Issues
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani
Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti
Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane
Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky
From the Archive
James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)
Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology’ (2006)
TCS E-Special Issues
TCS Book Series
B&S Special Issues
Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley
The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar
Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance
Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff
Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith