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

Contributor(s): Alexander, Jeffrey C, 1952- [(j. ed.)] | Seidman, Steven [(ed.)].
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001Description: xiv, 409 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0415188075.Subject(s): SociologyDDC classification: 301
Contents:
Acknowledgements. - Introduction / Steven Seidman and Jeffrey C. Alexander. - Pt. One. General theory without foundations. New Critical Theory. 1.Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy. 2. Personal identity and disrespect. Semiotic Structuralism. 3. Historical metaphors and mythical realities. 4. On ethnographic allegory. Poststructuralism. 5. Power/Knowledge. 6. Hegemony : The genealogy of a concept. Cultural Studies. 7. Cultural studies. 8. The political unconscious : Narrative as a socially symbolic act. - Pt. Two. The normative turn. Justice. 9. A defense of pluralism and equality. 10. Political Liberalism. - Ethics. 11. Whose justice? Which rationality?. 12. Postmodern ethics. Truth. 13. Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism. 14. Feminism and the question of postmodernism. - Pt. Three. Postdisciplinary debates : societies. Postmodernity. 15. The postmodern condition. 16. The condition of postmodernity. Civil Society. 17. The utopia of civil society. 18.The binary discourse of civil society. Multiculturalism. 19. Justice and the politics of difference. 20. Multicultural citizenship. Nationalism. 21. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. 22. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the national question in the new europe. Globalisation. 23. Dimensions of globalisation. 24. Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy.
Nature. 25. Ecological questions in a framework of manufactured uncertainties. 26. The Biopolitics of postmodern bodies. Dominationa/Liberation. 27. From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'postsocialist' age. 28. Queer politics. - Pt. Four. Postdisciplinary debates : identities. Self. 29. Individualism and commitment in American life. 30. The making of modern identity. - Gender. 31. The theoretical subject (s) of this bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism. 32. Imitation and gender insubordination. Sexuality. 33. Theorizing Hetero - and Homosexuality. 34. From identity to queer politics: Shifts in normative heterosexuality. Race. 35. African identities. 36. Racial fromation. - Postcoloniality. 37. Orientalism. 38. The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism. - Index.
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Acknowledgements. - Introduction / Steven Seidman and Jeffrey C. Alexander. - Pt. One. General theory without foundations. New Critical Theory. 1.Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy. 2. Personal identity and disrespect. Semiotic Structuralism. 3. Historical metaphors and mythical realities. 4. On ethnographic allegory. Poststructuralism. 5. Power/Knowledge. 6. Hegemony : The genealogy of a concept. Cultural Studies. 7. Cultural studies. 8. The political unconscious : Narrative as a socially symbolic act. - Pt. Two. The normative turn. Justice. 9. A defense of pluralism and equality. 10. Political Liberalism. - Ethics. 11. Whose justice? Which rationality?. 12. Postmodern ethics. Truth. 13. Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism. 14. Feminism and the question of postmodernism. - Pt. Three. Postdisciplinary debates : societies. Postmodernity. 15. The postmodern condition. 16. The condition of postmodernity. Civil Society. 17. The utopia of civil society. 18.The binary discourse of civil society. Multiculturalism. 19. Justice and the politics of difference. 20. Multicultural citizenship. Nationalism. 21. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. 22. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the national question in the new europe. Globalisation. 23. Dimensions of globalisation. 24. Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy.

Nature. 25. Ecological questions in a framework of manufactured uncertainties. 26. The Biopolitics of postmodern bodies. Dominationa/Liberation. 27. From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'postsocialist' age. 28. Queer politics. - Pt. Four. Postdisciplinary debates : identities. Self. 29. Individualism and commitment in American life. 30. The making of modern identity. - Gender. 31. The theoretical subject (s) of this bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism. 32. Imitation and gender insubordination. Sexuality. 33. Theorizing Hetero - and Homosexuality. 34. From identity to queer politics: Shifts in normative heterosexuality. Race. 35. African identities. 36. Racial fromation. - Postcoloniality. 37. Orientalism. 38. The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism. - Index.