The new social theory reader / edited and introduced by Steven Seidman and Jeffrey C. Alexander.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. General Theory without Foundations -- New Critical Theory -- 1. Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy / Jurgen Habermas -- 2. Personal Identity and Disrespect Semiotic Structuralism / Axel Honneth -- 3. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities / Marshall Sahlins -- 4. On Ethnographic Allegory / James Clifford -- Poststructuralism -- 5. Power /Knowledge / Michael Foucault -- 6. Outline of a Theory of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu -- Cultural Studies -- 7. Cultural Studies / Stuart Hall -- 8. The Political Unconscious / Frederic Jameson -- Part 2. The Normative Turn -- Justice -- 9. A Defense of Pluralism and Equality / Michael Walzer -- 10. Political Liberalism / John Rawls -- Ethics -- 11. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? / Alasdair MacIntyre -- 12. Postmodern Ethics / Zygmaunt Bauman -- Truth -- 13. Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism / Richard Rorty -- 14. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism / Seyla Benhabib -- Part 3. Rethinking Power -- Performativity -- 15. Imitation and Gender Insubordination / Judith Butler -- 16. Performance and Power / Jeffrey Alexander -- Domination /Liberation -- 17. From Redistribution to Recognition? / Nancy Fraser -- 18. Queer Politics / David Halperin -- Biopoliftics -- 19. The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity / Susan Bordo -- 20. : The Politics of Life Itself / Nicolas Rose -- Part 4. Societies and World Order -- Postmodernity -- 21. Simulcra and Simulations / Jean Baudrillard -- 22. The Condition of Postmodernity / David Harvey -- Civil Society -- 23. The Utopia of Civil Society / Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato -- 24. Global Civil Society / Mary Kaldor -- Multiculturalism -- 25. Justice and the Politics of Difference / Iris Marion Young -- 26. Multicultural Citizenship / Will Kymlicka -- Nationalism -- 27. Imagined Communities / Benedict Anderson -- 28. Whose Imagined Community? / Partha Chatterjee -- World Politics -- 29. The End of History / Francis Fukuyama -- 30. The Clash of Civilizations / Samuel Huntington -- Globalisation -- 31. A New Society / Manuel Castells -- 32. The Cosmopolitan Perspective / Ulrich Beck -- Empire -- 33. From Direct to Indirect Rule / Mahmood Mamdani -- 34. The New U.S. Empire / George Steinmetz -- Part 5. Identities -- Self -- 35. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age / Anthony Giddens -- 36. The Making of Modern Identity / Charles Taylor -- Gender -- 37. Gender as a Structure of Social Practice / R.W. Connell -- 38. Westernization and Third World Feminism / Uma Narayan -- Sexuality -- 39. Heter Hetero /Homosexuality / Diana Fuss -- 40. Shifts in Normative Heterosexuality / Steven Seidman -- Race -- 41. Racial Formation / Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- 42. The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg -- Postcoloniality -- 43. Orientalism / Edward Said -- 44. Postcolonial Melancholia / Paul Gilroy.

"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.

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