The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

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ISBN: 9780631206507 | 0631206507
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Copyright: 9/8/1999

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This title provides a comprehensive & exciting introduction to the major developments, debates, & 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
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Theory of the Subject
The Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man
Language and Speech
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I in Psychoanalytic Experience
Revolution in Poetic Language
The Individual and Representation
Social Structure and Institutional Analysis
The Means of Correct Training
Structures, Habitus, Practices
Elements of the Theory of Structuration
Society Turns Back upon Itself
The Concept of Society
Individualization and "Precarious Freedoms": Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Centered Sociology
Contemporary Critical Theory
The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld
Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights, and Solidarity
Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity
Race, Multiculturalism, Difference
DissemiNation
Freud and the Epistemology of Race
Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity
Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography
Feminism, Gender, and Sexual Difference
The Reproduction of Mothering
This Sex which Is Not One
Gender Trouble
Living with Uncertainty
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate
Postmodernism
The Postmodern Condition
Simulations
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism
Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence
Index
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