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Book SynopsisPresents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informed understanding of the analytical and practical challenges of social theory (in terms of social, sociological, and critical theory), and looks beyond pluralism and fragmentation to the kind of roles social theorists may play.
Table of ContentsEDITORIAL BOARD. List of Contributors. Introduction. The Epistemological Fate of the Authoritarian Character Studies of the Frankfurt School. A Legacy for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism, and Fascism?. Charisma and Critique: Critical Theory, Authority, and the Critique of Political Theology. Trauma and the Limits of Redemptive Critique: Interrogating the Haunting Voices of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The Direction of Contemporary Critical Theory: A Response to Amy Allen's The Politics of Our Selves. Who are we and Who do we want to be? Amy Allen's The Politics of Our Selves. Explaining the Power of Gendered Subjectivity. Power, Autonomy, and Gender: Reply to Critics. Stranger to you and Stranger to Myself? Theorizing Self-Estrangement. For Pragmatic Public Sociology: Theory and Practice After the Pragmatic Turn. Empire, Global Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri. Žižek's Negative (Positive) Project or, Negativity as Positive Possibility. The Diversity of Social Theories. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Copyright page.
