Anthony Elliott / Bryan S. Turner (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory

Beschreibung

This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Fredric Jameson, Richard Rorty, Nancy Chodorow, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Luce Irigaray and Donna Haraway. In guiding students through the key figures in an accessible and authoritative fashion, the book provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social theorists and charts the relationship between different traditions of social, cultural and political thought. Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory will become a major reference work in the field of social theory because it offers in-depth commentaries that comprehensively examine the contents, contexts and critical evaluation of key theorists of the day.

Autor

Anthony Elliott is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of the West of England, where he is Director of the Centre for Critical Theory. Bryan S Turner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS′ AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA: John Armitage University of Northumbria Jakob Arnoldi Goldsmiths College Patrick Baert University of Cambridge Caroline Bainbridge Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College Andrew Bowie Royal Holloway, University of London Nick Crossley University of Manchester Bridget Fowler University of Glasgow Mike Gane Loughborough University Graeme Gilloch University of Salford Sean Homer University of Sheffield Paul Patton University of Sydney Chris Rojek Nottingham Trent University Victor Jeleniewski Seidler Goldsmiths College Barry Smart University of Portsmouth Nick Stevenson University of Sheffield Sarah Wright University of Hull

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780761965886
• ISBN-10: 0761965882
• Artikelnr.: 22019426

Rezensionen

`The publication of this volume will make a dramatic impact, for it shifts the boundaries of current understandings of the field of social theory. It presents a set of cogent, well- informed, well-organized discussions of many authors who are not conventionally seen as relevant to that field. On the other hand, it also reconsiders a number of the field's established figures and focuses on their contribution to a few thematic concerns, which the editors formulate compellingly in their introduction' - Gianfranco Poggi, European University Institute





`A most innovative and creative collection of essays on contemporary social theory. What stands out about this book is the editors' choice of thinkers.... Included here are essays not only on many of the most important contemporary social theorists (including some interesting, even surprising, choices), but also on many of the thinkers of the recent past who are having a powerful impact on contemporary social thought. A welcome addition to the personal libraries of not only social theorists, but those in a wide range of specialities in the social sciences' - George Ritzer, University of Maryland