The new social theory reader /
The new social theory reader /
edited and introduced by Steven Seidman and Jeffrey C. Alexander.
- Second edition.
- xii, 447 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General Theory without Foundations -- New Critical Theory -- Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy / Personal Identity and Disrespect Semiotic Structuralism / Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities / On Ethnographic Allegory / Poststructuralism -- Power /Knowledge / Outline of a Theory of Practice / Cultural Studies -- Cultural Studies / The Political Unconscious / The Normative Turn -- Justice -- A Defense of Pluralism and Equality / Political Liberalism / Ethics -- Whose Justice? Which Rationality? / Postmodern Ethics / Truth -- Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism / Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism / Rethinking Power -- Performativity -- Imitation and Gender Insubordination / Performance and Power / Domination /Liberation -- From Redistribution to Recognition? / Queer Politics / Biopoliftics -- The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity / : The Politics of Life Itself / Societies and World Order -- Postmodernity -- Simulcra and Simulations / The Condition of Postmodernity / Civil Society -- The Utopia of Civil Society / Global Civil Society / Multiculturalism -- Justice and the Politics of Difference / Multicultural Citizenship / Nationalism -- Imagined Communities / Whose Imagined Community? / World Politics -- The End of History / The Clash of Civilizations / Globalisation -- A New Society / The Cosmopolitan Perspective / Empire -- From Direct to Indirect Rule / The New U.S. Empire / Identities -- Self -- Self and Society in the Late Modern Age / The Making of Modern Identity / Gender -- Gender as a Structure of Social Practice / Westernization and Third World Feminism / Sexuality -- Heter Hetero /Homosexuality / Shifts in Normative Heterosexuality / Race -- Racial Formation / The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness / Postcoloniality -- Orientalism / Postcolonial Melancholia / Jurgen Habermas -- Axel Honneth -- Marshall Sahlins -- James Clifford -- Michael Foucault -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Stuart Hall -- Frederic Jameson -- Michael Walzer -- John Rawls -- Alasdair MacIntyre -- Zygmaunt Bauman -- Richard Rorty -- Seyla Benhabib -- Judith Butler -- Jeffrey Alexander -- Nancy Fraser -- David Halperin -- Susan Bordo -- Nicolas Rose -- Jean Baudrillard -- David Harvey -- Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato -- Mary Kaldor -- Iris Marion Young -- Will Kymlicka -- Benedict Anderson -- Partha Chatterjee -- Francis Fukuyama -- Samuel Huntington -- Manuel Castells -- Ulrich Beck -- Mahmood Mamdani -- George Steinmetz -- Anthony Giddens -- Charles Taylor -- R.W. Connell -- Uma Narayan -- Diana Fuss -- Steven Seidman -- Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- Ruth Frankenberg -- Edward Said -- Paul Gilroy. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part 2. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Part 3. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Part 4. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Part 5. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44.
"This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition readers are provided with a much greater range of thinkers and perspectives, including new sections on such issues as imperialism, power, civilization clash, health and performance. The first section sets out the main schools of contemporary thought, from Habermas and Honneth on new critical theory, to Jameson and Hall on cultural studies, and Foucault and Bourdieu on poststructuralism. The sections that follow trace theory debates as they become more issues-based and engaged. They are: the post-foundational debates over morality, justice and epistemological truth the social meaning of nationalism, multiculturalism and globalization identity debates around gender, sexuality, race, the self and post-coloniality. This new edition provides more ample biographical and intellectual introductions to each thinker, and substantial introductions to each of the major sections. The editors introduce the volume with a newly revised, interpretive overview of social theory today. The New Social Theory Reader is an essential, reliable guide to current theoretical debates."--Publisher's website.
0415437695 9780415437691 0415437709 9780415437707
2007040872
Sociology.
HM585 / .N46 2008
301
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General Theory without Foundations -- New Critical Theory -- Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy / Personal Identity and Disrespect Semiotic Structuralism / Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities / On Ethnographic Allegory / Poststructuralism -- Power /Knowledge / Outline of a Theory of Practice / Cultural Studies -- Cultural Studies / The Political Unconscious / The Normative Turn -- Justice -- A Defense of Pluralism and Equality / Political Liberalism / Ethics -- Whose Justice? Which Rationality? / Postmodern Ethics / Truth -- Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism / Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism / Rethinking Power -- Performativity -- Imitation and Gender Insubordination / Performance and Power / Domination /Liberation -- From Redistribution to Recognition? / Queer Politics / Biopoliftics -- The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity / : The Politics of Life Itself / Societies and World Order -- Postmodernity -- Simulcra and Simulations / The Condition of Postmodernity / Civil Society -- The Utopia of Civil Society / Global Civil Society / Multiculturalism -- Justice and the Politics of Difference / Multicultural Citizenship / Nationalism -- Imagined Communities / Whose Imagined Community? / World Politics -- The End of History / The Clash of Civilizations / Globalisation -- A New Society / The Cosmopolitan Perspective / Empire -- From Direct to Indirect Rule / The New U.S. Empire / Identities -- Self -- Self and Society in the Late Modern Age / The Making of Modern Identity / Gender -- Gender as a Structure of Social Practice / Westernization and Third World Feminism / Sexuality -- Heter Hetero /Homosexuality / Shifts in Normative Heterosexuality / Race -- Racial Formation / The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness / Postcoloniality -- Orientalism / Postcolonial Melancholia / Jurgen Habermas -- Axel Honneth -- Marshall Sahlins -- James Clifford -- Michael Foucault -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Stuart Hall -- Frederic Jameson -- Michael Walzer -- John Rawls -- Alasdair MacIntyre -- Zygmaunt Bauman -- Richard Rorty -- Seyla Benhabib -- Judith Butler -- Jeffrey Alexander -- Nancy Fraser -- David Halperin -- Susan Bordo -- Nicolas Rose -- Jean Baudrillard -- David Harvey -- Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato -- Mary Kaldor -- Iris Marion Young -- Will Kymlicka -- Benedict Anderson -- Partha Chatterjee -- Francis Fukuyama -- Samuel Huntington -- Manuel Castells -- Ulrich Beck -- Mahmood Mamdani -- George Steinmetz -- Anthony Giddens -- Charles Taylor -- R.W. Connell -- Uma Narayan -- Diana Fuss -- Steven Seidman -- Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- Ruth Frankenberg -- Edward Said -- Paul Gilroy. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part 2. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Part 3. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Part 4. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Part 5. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44.
"This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition readers are provided with a much greater range of thinkers and perspectives, including new sections on such issues as imperialism, power, civilization clash, health and performance. The first section sets out the main schools of contemporary thought, from Habermas and Honneth on new critical theory, to Jameson and Hall on cultural studies, and Foucault and Bourdieu on poststructuralism. The sections that follow trace theory debates as they become more issues-based and engaged. They are: the post-foundational debates over morality, justice and epistemological truth the social meaning of nationalism, multiculturalism and globalization identity debates around gender, sexuality, race, the self and post-coloniality. This new edition provides more ample biographical and intellectual introductions to each thinker, and substantial introductions to each of the major sections. The editors introduce the volume with a newly revised, interpretive overview of social theory today. The New Social Theory Reader is an essential, reliable guide to current theoretical debates."--Publisher's website.
0415437695 9780415437691 0415437709 9780415437707
2007040872
Sociology.
HM585 / .N46 2008
301