| Description |
xiv, 409 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Contributions to a Disclosure Theory of Law and Democracy -- 2. Personal Identity and Disrespect -- 3. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities -- 4. On Ethnographic Allegory -- 5. Power/Knowledge -- 6. Hegemony: The Genealogy of a Concept -- 7. Cultural Studies -- 8. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act -- 9. A Defense of Pluralism and Equality -- 10. Political Liberalism -- 11. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? -- 12. Postmodern Ethics -- 13. Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism -- 14. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism -- 15. The Postmodern Condition -- 16. The Condition of Postmodernity -- 17. The Utopia of Civil Society -- 18. The Binary Discourse of Civil Society -- 19. Justice and the Politics of Difference -- 20. Multicultural Citizenship -- 21. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism -- 22. Nationalism Reframed: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism -- 23. Dimensions of Globalisation -- 24. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy -- 25. Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties -- 26. The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies -- 27. From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a 'Postsocialist' Age -- 28. Queer Politics -- 29. Individualism and Commitment in American Life -- 30. The Making of Modern Identity -- 31. The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism -- 32. Imitation and Gender Insubordination -- 33. Theorizing Hetero- and Homosexuality -- 34. From Identity to Queer Politics: Shifts in Normative Hetersexuality -- 35. African Identities -- 36. Racial Formation -- 37. Orientalism -- 38. The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism |
| Summary |
This reader provides a structured introduction to the writers and works which have shaped the field of social theory. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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| Author |
Seidman, Steven.
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Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
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| LC no. |
00051779 |
| ISBN |
0415188075 |
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0415188083 paperback |
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