The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

Herausgeber: Elliott, Anthony

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory provides a comprehensive and exciting introduction to the major developments, debates, and schools of thought in social theory today. This introductory reader is edited and introduced by Anthony Elliott and covers twentieth-century social theory stretching from critical theory, structuralism and psychoanalysis to feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. The book includes treatments not only of the traditional lines of orientation in social theory but also of recent controversies surrounding the resurgence of interest in the self, self-identity and subjectivity. The selections are drawn from many of the most prominent figures in current debate and are introduced and contextualized by the editor to make them accessible to those coming to the study of social theory for the first time. The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory is an ideal teaching text, and will be of significant interest to students and professionals across the social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 176mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780631206491
• ISBN-10: 0631206493
• Artikelnr.: 22124903

Autorenporträt

Anthony Elliott is Research Fellow in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His recent books include Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction (1994), Subject to Ourselves: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Postmodernity (1996), and The Mourning of John Lennon (1999). He is the editor of Freud 2000 (1998) and coeditor, with Dr. Stephen Frosh, of Psychoanalysis in Contexts (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Anthony Elliott.
Part I: The Theory of the Subject:.
1. The Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man: Herbert Marcuse. 2.
Language and Speech: Roland Barthes.
3. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I in Psychoanalytic
Experience: Jacques Lacan.
4. Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva.
5. The Individual and Representation: Cornelius Castoriadis.
Part II: Social Structure and Institutional Analysis:.
6. The Means of Correct Training: Michel Foucault.
7. Structures, Habitus, Practices: Pierre Bourdieu.
8. Elements of the Theory of Structuration: Anthony Giddens.
9. Society Turns Back upon Itself: Alain Touraine.
10. The Concept of Society: Niklas Luhmann.
11. Individualization and "Precarious Freedoms": Perspectives and
Controversies of a Subject-Centered Sociology: Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth
Beck-Gernsheim.
Part III: Contemporary Critical Theory:.
12. The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld: Jurgen Habermas.
13. Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights, and Solidarity:
Axel Honneth.
14. Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of
Modernity: Albrecht Wellmer.
Part IV: Race, Multiculturalism, Difference: .
15. DissemiNation: Homi K. Bhabha.
16. Freud and the Epistemology of Race: Sander L. Gilman.
17. Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity: Paul
Gilroy.
18. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography: Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak.
Part V: Feminism, Gender, and Sexual Difference: .
19. The Reproduction of Mothering: Nancy Chodorow.
20. This Sex which Is Not One: Luce Irigaray.
21. Gender Trouble: Judith Butler.
22. Living with Uncertainty: Jeffrey Weeks.
23. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege
of Partial Perspective: Donna J. Haraway.
Part VI: The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate:.
24. Postmodernism: David Harvey.
25. The Postmodern Condition: Jean-Francois Lyotard.
26. Simulations: Jean Baudrillard.
27. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Frederic
Jameson.
28. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism: Seyla Benhabib.
29. Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence: Zygmunt Bauman.
Index.

Rezensionen

"Concise but Comprehensive, Anthony Elliott's Reader is anideal companion to social theory -a real festival of contemporarysocial thought." Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge

"Contemporary social theory is a treasure-house but also aminefield. One has to tread warily to find the gems. AnthonyElliott has done just that in selecting some of the most importantand influential writings of the past 20 to 30 years. Here are allthe familiar names but also some less familiar ones raisingdifferent but no less relevant questions. This reader will beinvaluable to senior undergraduates and graduates seeking thepath-breaking contributions in contemporary social theory."Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia