Polity Press is a prestigious independent British academic and social publishing house, founded in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four by the famous sociologist Anthony Giddens in collaboration with publishers David Heald and John Thompson.The house was launched with a vision aimed at bridging the gap between solid academic research and contemporary public debates, and over the decades it has succeeded in building an exceptional international reputation as one of the most prominent global publishing houses specialized in the social sciences and humanities. The publishing house is headquartered in the British city of Cambridge, and has a distinguished second office in the city of Oxford, in addition to an important branch in the American city of Boston to manage its operations and distribute its publications in the North American continent.The house is distinguished by a rich and deep intellectual program characterized by boldness and criticism, and annually publishes approximately one hundred and seventy new books that are selected and reviewed with great care. And
Its publication list covers diverse fields including sociology, international politics, international relations, social theory, and philosophy, as well as cultural and media studies, history, current affairs, gender issues, and anthropology. The house is historically known as the main bridge of knowledge that conveyed major informationPhilosophical and social ideas and theories from the European continent to the English-speaking world, where the house has a huge and pioneering translation program, and has published approved English versions of the works of major modern philosophers and thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, and Slavoj Žižek.The house's practical philosophy combines maintaining complete editorial independence and benefiting from major strategic distribution and printing partnerships, perhaps the most prominent of which is its extended partnership with John Wiley International Publishing, which gives its books tremendous distribution power that reaches universities, libraries and stores on various continents. The House is committed to encouraging new voices and young researchers who present innovative ideas and critical approaches that challenge traditional concepts and contribute to understanding the complexities of current global crises such asDigital transformations, climate change, and public policy. The house’s books enjoy high critical and academic appreciation, and its works are regularly studied as basic reference guides in major international universities. It has an extended influence in the Arab cultural space through the translation of hundreds of its philosophical and social publications into the Arabic language.
