{"product_id":"the-new-social-theory-reader-9780415437707","title":"The New Social Theory Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this revised second edition readers are provided with a much greater range of thinkers and perspectives, including new sections on such issues as imperialism, power, civilization clash, health and performance. The first section sets out the main schools of contemporary thought, from Habermas and Honneth on new critical theory, to Jameson and Hall on cultural studies, and Foucault and Bourdieu on poststructuralism. The sections that follow trace theory debates as they become more issues-based and engaged. They are:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003ethe post-foundational debates over morality, justice and epistemological truth\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003ethe social meaning of nationalism, multiculturalism and globalization\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eidentity debates around gender, sexuality, race, the self and post-coloniality.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition provides more ample biographical and intellectual introductions to each thinker, and substantial introductions to each of the major sections. The editors introduce the volume with a newly revised, interpretive overview of social theory today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Social Theory Reader\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential, reliable guide to current theoretical debates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Seidman and Alexander compiled a collection of essays on social theory in 2001. In the time since enough has changed to warrant a much expanded second edition. The authors give in-depth introductions to each section. The first articles review the latest theories. Then they move from macro to microcosm. From ephemeral concepts like truth, ethics and justice, the authors then look at new ways of defining power, then societies: postmodern, multi-cultural, national, global and imperial. The final focus is on self-definition by race, nationality, gender, sexuality and post colonial identification. Many of the articles have already appeared in a variety of journals. This updated edition is of interest to sociologists and ideal for university classrooms.\" - Book News Inc., August 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: General Theory without Foundations.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Critical Theory 1. Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy \u003cem\u003eJurgen Habermas\u003c\/em\u003e 2. Personal Identity and Disrespect Semiotic Structuralism \u003cem\u003eAxel Honneth\u003c\/em\u003e 3. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities \u003cem\u003eMarshall Sahlins\u003c\/em\u003e 4. On Ethnographic Allegory \u003cem\u003eJames Clifford. \u003c\/em\u003ePoststructuralism 5. Power\/Knowledge \u003cem\u003eMichael Foucault\u003c\/em\u003e 6. Outline of a Theory of Practice \u003cem\u003ePierre Bourdieu.\u003c\/em\u003e Cultural Studies 7. Cultural Studies \u003cem\u003eStuart Hall\u003c\/em\u003e 8. The Political Unconscious \u003cem\u003eFrederic Jameson\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: The Normative Turn.\u003c\/strong\u003e Justice 9. A Defense of Pluralism and Equality \u003cem\u003eMichael Walzer\u003c\/em\u003e 10. Political Liberalism \u003cem\u003eJohn Rawls.\u003c\/em\u003e Ethics 11. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? \u003cem\u003eAlasdair MacIntyre\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Postmodern Ethics \u003cem\u003eZygmaunt Bauman.\u003c\/em\u003e Truth 13. Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism \u003cem\u003eRichard Rorty\u003c\/em\u003e 14. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism \u003cem\u003eSeyla Benhabib \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Rethinking Power.\u003c\/strong\u003e Performativity 15. Imitation and Gender Insubordination \u003cem\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/em\u003e 16. Performance and Power \u003cem\u003eJeffrey Alexander. \u003c\/em\u003eDomination\/Liberation 17. From Redistribution to Recognition? \u003cem\u003eNancy Fraser\u003c\/em\u003e 18. Queer Politics \u003cem\u003eDavid Halperin.\u003c\/em\u003e Biopoliftics 19. The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity \u003cem\u003eSusan Bordo\u003c\/em\u003e 20. : The Politics of Life Itself \u003cem\u003eNicolas Rose \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Societies and World Order.\u003c\/strong\u003e Postmodernity 21. Simulcra and Simulations \u003cem\u003eJean Baudrillard \u003c\/em\u003e22. The Condition of Postmodernity \u003cem\u003eDavid Harvey.\u003c\/em\u003e Civil Society 23. The Utopia of Civil Society \u003cem\u003eJean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato\u003c\/em\u003e 24. Global Civil Society \u003cem\u003eMary Kaldor.\u003c\/em\u003e Multiculturalism 25. Justice and the Politics of Difference \u003cem\u003eIris Marion Young \u003c\/em\u003e26. Multicultural Citizenship \u003cem\u003eWill Kymlicka.\u003c\/em\u003e Nationalism 27. Imagined Communities \u003cem\u003eBenedict Anderson\u003c\/em\u003e 28. Whose Imagined Community? \u003cem\u003ePartha Chatterjee.\u003c\/em\u003e World Politics 29. The End of History \u003cem\u003eFrancis Fukuyama\u003c\/em\u003e 30. The Clash of Civilizations \u003cem\u003eSamuel Huntington.\u003c\/em\u003e Globalisation 31. A New Society \u003cem\u003eManuel Castells\u003c\/em\u003e 32. The Cosmopolitan Perspective \u003cem\u003eUlrich Beck.\u003c\/em\u003e Empire 33. From Direct to Indirect Rule \u003cem\u003eMahmood Mamdani \u003c\/em\u003e34. The New U.S. Empire \u003cem\u003eGeorge Steinmetz\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart 5: Identities.\u003c\/strong\u003e Self 35. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age \u003cem\u003eAnthony Giddens \u003c\/em\u003e36. The Making of Modern Identity \u003cem\u003eCharles Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e. Gender 37. Gender as a Structure of Social Practice \u003cem\u003eR.W. Connell\u003c\/em\u003e 38. Westernization and Third World Feminism \u003cem\u003eUma Narayan.\u003c\/em\u003e Sexuality 39. Heter Hetero\/Homosexuality \u003cem\u003eDiana Fuss\u003c\/em\u003e 40. Shifts in Normative Heterosexuality \u003cem\u003eSteven Seidman.\u003c\/em\u003e Race 41. Racial Formation \u003cem\u003eMichael Omi and Howard Winant \u003c\/em\u003e42. The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness \u003cem\u003eRuth Frankenberg.\u003c\/em\u003e Postcoloniality 43. Orientalism \u003cem\u003eEdward Said \u003c\/em\u003e 44. 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