The New Social Theory Reader (Paperback, 2 ed)

Part 1: General theory without foundations NEW CRITICAL THEORY 1. Jurgen Habermas Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy 2. Axel Honneth Personal identity and disrespect semiotic structuralism 3. Marshall Sahlins Historical metaphors and mythical realities 4. James Clifford On ethnographic allegory POSTSTRUCTURALISM 5. Michel Foucault Power/Knowledge 6. Pierre Bourdieu Outline of a theory of practice CULTURAL STUDIES 7. Stuart Hall Cultural studies 8. Frederic Jameson The political unconscious: Narrative as a socially symbolic act Part 2: The normative turn JUSTICE 9. Michael Walzer A defense of pluralism and equality 10. John Rawls Political liberalism ETHICS 11. Alasdair MacIntyre Whose justice? Which rationality? 12. Zygmaunt Bauman Postmodern ethics TRUTH 13. Richard Rorty Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism 14. Seyla Benhabib Feminism and the question of postmodernism Part 3: Rethinking power PERFORMATIVITY 15. Judith Butler Imitation and gender insubordination 16. Jeffrey Alexander Performance and Power DOMINATION/LIBERATION 17. Nancy Fraser From redistribution to recognition? 18. David Halperin Queer politics BIOPOLITICS 19. Susan Bordo The body and the reproduction of femininity 20. Nicolas Rose The Politics of life itself Part 4: Societies and World Order POSTMODERNITY 21. Jean Baudrillard Simulcra and simulations 22. David Harvey The condition of postmodernity CIVIL SOCIETY 23. Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato The utopia of civil society 24. Mary Kaldor Global civil society MULTICULTURALISM 25. Iris Marion Young Justice and the politics of difference 26. Will Kymlicka Multicultural citizenship NATIONALISM 27. Benedict Anderson Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism 28. Partha Chatterjee Whose imagined community? WORLD POLITICS 29. Francis Fukuyama The end of history 30. Samuel Huntington The clash of civilizations GLOBALISATION 31. Manuel Castells A new society 32. Ulrich Beck The cosmopolitan perspective EMPIRE 33. Mahmood Mamdani From direct to indirect rule 34. George Steinmetz The new U.S. empire Part 5: Identities SELF 35. Anthony Giddens Self and society in the late modern age 36. Charles Taylor The making of modern identity GENDER 37. R.W. Connell Gender as a structure of social practice 38. Uma Narayan Westernization and third world feminism SEXUALITY 39. Diana Fuss Heter Hetero/Homosexuality 40. Steven Seidman Shifts in normative heterosexuality RACE 41. Michael Omi and Howard Winant Racial formation 42. Ruth Frankenberg The mirage of an unmarked whiteness POSTCOLONIALITY 43. Edward Said Orientalism 44. Paul Gilroy Postcolonial melancholia