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Book Synopsis* Contains up-to-date coverage of key theorists in sociology, social theory, philosophy, cultural studies, feminism, psychoanalysis and philosophy. * Theorists covered include Benjamin, Elias, Goffman, Lacan, Said, Jameson, Heidegger, Giddens, Bauman, Williams, and many others.
Trade Review"This is a very good book, which successfully achieves the editors' aims of encouraging engagement with the key processes of the contemporary period. I have no doubt that its brief introductions and suggestions for further reading will prove very useful to those new to contemporary social theory, but keen to learn more. I would be pleased to recommend it to my students."
Steven Groarke, University of Surrey "This volume will be useful for anyone seeking to chart the terrain of contempoary social theory ... the work covers much ground and will undoubtedly be a handy reference for students of social and cultural theory." Ian Tregenza, Australian Journal of Political Science
Table of Contentsntroduction. Anthony Elliott and Larry Ray.
1. Theodor Adorno: Maggie O'Neill.
2. Jeffrey Alexander: Paul Colomy.
3. Louis Althusser: Ted Benton.
4. Hannah Arendt: Phillip Hansen.
5. Jean Baudrillard: Rex Butler.
6. Zygmunt Bauman: Ian Varcoe.
7. Ulrich Beck: Joost van Loon.
8. Daniel Bell: Malcolm Waters.
9. Jessica Benjamin: Kay Torney Souter.
10. Walter Benjamin: Howard Caygill.
11. Homi Bhabha: Bart Moore-Gilbert.
12. Maurice Blanchot: Kevin Hart.
13. Pierre Bourdieu: Don Miller.
14. Manuel Castells: Nick Stevenson.
15. Nancy Chodorow: Diane Tietjens Meyers.
16. Gilles Deleuze: Claire Colebrook.
17. Jacques Derrida: Roy Boyne.
18. Norbert Elias: Robert van Kriekan.
19. Michel Foucault: Gerard Delanty.
20. Hans-Georg Gadamer: David West.
21. Anthony Giddens: Anthony Elliott.
22. Erving Goffman: Yves Winkin.
23. Jürgen Habermas: William Outhwaite.
24. Stuart Hall: Michael Kenny.
25. Max Horkheimer: Larry Ray.
26. Luce Irigaray: Kwok Wei Leng.
27. Fredric Jameson: Andrew Milner.
28. Julia Kristeva: John Lechte.
29. Jacques Lacan: Stephen Frosh.
30. Claude Levi-Strauss: Zygmunt.
31. Niklas Luhman: Dieter Rucht.
32. Jean Francois Lyotard: James Williams.
33. Herbert Marcuse: Jem Thomas.
34. Claus Offe: John Dryzek.
35. Richard Rorty: Matthew Festenstein.
36. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Annamarie Jagose.
37. Alain Touraine: Kevin McDonald.
38. Bryan S Turner: Barry Smart.
39. Paul Virilio: Scott McQuire.
40. Raymond Williams: Andrew Milner.
41. Slavoj Zizek: Anthony Elliott.
