The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social

The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory provides a comprehensive and exciting introduction to the major developments, debates, and schools of thought in social theory today.

Anthony Elliott is Research Fellow in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His recent books include Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction (1994), Subject to Ourselves: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Postmodernity (1996), and The Mourning of John Lennon (1999). He is the editor of Freud 2000 (1998) and coeditor, with Dr. Stephen Frosh, of Psychoanalysis in Contexts (1995).

Preface

viii

(2)

Acknowledgment

x

Introduction

1

(32)

Anthony Elliott

Part I The Theory of the Subject

33

(62)

1 The Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man

35

(13)

Herbert Marcuse

2 Language and Speech

48

(13)

Roland Barthes

3 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience

61

(6)

Jacques Lacan

4 Revolution in Poetic Language

67

(14)

Julia Kristeva

5 The Individual and Representation

81

(14)

Cornelius Castoriadis

Part II Social Structure and Institutional Analysis

95

(74)

6 The Means of Correct Training

97

(10)

Michel Foucault

7 Structures, Habitus, Practices

107

(12)

Pierre Bourdieu

8 Elements of the Theory of Structuration

119

(12)

Anthony Giddens

9 Society Turns Back upon Itself

131

(12)

Alain Touraine

10 The Concept of Society

143

(13)

Niklas Luhmann

11 Individualization and "Precarious Freedoms": Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-orientated Sociology

156

(13)

Ulrich Beck

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Part III Contemporary Critical Theory

169

(40)

12 The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld

171

(13)

Jurgen Habermas

13 Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights and Solidarity

184

(12)

Axel Honneth

14 Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity

196

(13)

Albrecht Wellmer

Part IV Race, Multiculturalism, Difference

209

(48)

15 DissemiNation: Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation

211

(9)

Homi K. Bhabha

16 Sigmund Freud and the Epistemology of Race

220

(11)

Sander L. Gilman

17 Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity

231

(13)

Paul Gilroy

18 Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography

244

(13)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Part V Feminism, Gender, and Sexual Difference

257

(44)

19 Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering

259

(4)

Nancy Chodorow

20 This Sex Which Is Not One

263

(7)

Luce Irigaray

21 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire

270

(7)

Judith Butler

22 Living with Uncertainty

277

(10)

Jeffrey Weeks

23 Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

287

(14)

Donna J. Haraway

Part VI The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate

301

(76)

24 Postmodernism

303

(14)

David Harvey

25 The Postmodern Condition

317

(10)

Jean-Francois Lyotard

26 The Precession of Simulacra

327

(11)

Jean Baudrillard

27 The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

338

(13)

Fredric Jameson

28 Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism

351

(12)

Seyla Benhabib

29 Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence

363

(14)

Zygmunt Bauman

Index

377

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