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1 online resource (808 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. The Textures of Society; What is society?; Society and social theory; Coping with climate change: Anthony Giddens; Key themes in contemporary social theory; Further questions; Further reading; Internet links; 2. The Contemporary Relevance of the Classics; The contradictions of modernity: Marx; Modernity as iron cage: Weber; Modernity as moral bonds: Durkheim; Trauma, tragedy and Thanatos: Freud; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; Internet links; 3. The Frankfurt School |
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Horkheimer and Adorno: Dialectic of EnlightenmentFreudian revolution: the uses of psychoanalysis; Fromm: fear of freedom; Adorno: The Authoritarian Personality, anti-Semitism and the psychodynamics of modernity; Written in the stars: Adorno on astrology; Marcuse: Eros, or one-dimensional futures?; Utopia and social transformation: Marcuse on libidinal rationality; Criticisms of Marcuse; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; Internet links; 4. Structuralism; Saussure and structural linguistics; Criticisms of Saussure |
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The Raw and The Cooked: Lévi-Strauss and structural anthropologyRoland Barthes: structuralist semiology and popular culture; Foucault: knowledge, social order and power; Society and disciplined bodies; The limits of structuralism: Foucault's History of Sexuality; Governmentality; Criticisms of Foucault; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; Internet links; 5. Post-structuralism; Lacan: the mirror stage and imaginary; Lacan's reformulation of structuralism: language, symbolic order and the unconscious; After Lacan: Althusser and society as interpellation |
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Cinema studies: the screen as mirrorŽižek: beyond interpellation; Appraisal of Lacan; Derrida: difference and deconstruction; Rereading psychoanalysis: Derrida's critique of Lacan; Appraisal of Derrida; Post-structuralism and post-colonial theory: Bhabha's The Location of Culture; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; Internet links; 6. Theories of Structuration; Anthony Giddens: structuration and the practical routines of social life; Giddens on modernity and the self; Giddens, politics and the third way; Criticisms of Giddens; Pierre Bourdieu: habitus and practical social life |
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Questions of taste: Bourdieu's DistinctionCriticisms of Bourdieu; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; Internet links; 7. Contemporary Critical Theory; Habermas: the democratization of society; The early Habermas: development and decline of the public sphere; Habermas on capitalism, communication and colonization; Emotional imperialism: feminist criticism of Habermas; Habermas on globalization and post-national societies; Towards deliberative democracy; Criticisms of Habermas; Honneth: the struggle for recognition; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading |
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In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott examines the major social theoretical traditions. The first edition set new standards for introductory textbooks, such was the far-reaching sweep of social theorists discussed - including Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel Castells, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Giorgio Agamben and Manuel De Landa. From the Frankfurt School to |
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Sociology -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
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Social sciences -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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Sociology -- Philosophy
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134083237 |
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1134083238 |
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