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Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory
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Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory
About this book
This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Fredric Jameson, Richard Rorty, Nancy Chodorow, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Luce Irigaray and Donna Haraway. In guiding students through the key figures in an accessible and authoritative fashion, the book provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social theorists and charts the relationship between different traditions of social, cultural and political thought.
Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory will become a major reference work in the field of social theory because it offers in-depth commentaries that comprehensively examine the contents, contexts and critical evaluation of key theorists of the day.
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Yes, you can access Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory by Anthony Elliott, Bryan S Turner, Anthony Elliott,Bryan S Turner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Editor's Introduction
- 1 Martin Heidegger
- 2 Georges Bataille
- 3 Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- 4 Herbert Marcuse
- 5 Theodor Adorno
- 6 Walter Benjamin
- 7 Jurgen Habermas
- 8 Erving Goffman
- 9 Peter Berger
- 10 Michel Foucault
- 11 Jean-Francois Lyotard
- 12 Jacques Lacan
- 13 Jacques Derrida
- 14 Roland Barthes
- 15 Julia Kristeva
- 16 Luce Irigaray
- 17 Jean Baudrillard
- 18 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
- 19 Paul Virilio
- 20 Henri Lefebvre
- 21 Paul Ricoeur
- 22 Niklas Luhmann
- 23 Charles Taylor
- 24 Richard Rorty
- 25 Nancy Chodorow
- 26 Anthony Giddens
- 27 Ulrich Beck
- 28 Pierre Bourdieu
- 29 Zygmunt Bauman
- 30 Donna J. Haraway
- 31 Frederic Jameson
- 32 Stuart Hall
- 33 Juliet Mitchell
- 34 Edward W. Said
- Index