Critical Visions: New Directions in Social TheoryRowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 221 páginas In this remarkable book, Anthony Elliott develops a wide-ranging analysis of key issues and debates in contemporary social theory. Drawing social theory, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis together in a bold configuration, Elliott challenges the widespread view that social theory seems to have lost its way as a result of the diversification of conceptual approaches. In outlining an approach that places imagination and creativity at the center of social theory, Elliott argues that theoretical pluralism--from post-structuralism to postmodernism, from psychoanalysis to deconstruction--represents not the demise, but the renewal of critical social theory. Elliott opens with critical readings of the terrain of contemporary social theory and theorists, among them Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Lacan, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Julia Kristeva. He follows with an analysis of key debates in critical social theory. Questions relating to the globalization of risk, citizenship, morality and ethics, politics and norms, and sexuality and desire are all explored. This book is essential reading for students seeking a broad understanding of the confluence of sociology, social theory, politics, and cultural studies. |
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Risk and Reflexivity Ulrich Beck | 19 |
Social Theory and Politics in the Writings of Anthony Giddens | 43 |
Jacques Lacan as Social Theorist | 62 |
Subjectivity Culture Autonomy Cornelius Castoriadis | 82 |
Habermas Kristeva and Global Transformations in the Public Sphere | 105 |
CENTRAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY | 131 |
Sexualities Social Theory and the Crisis of Identity | 133 |
The Reinvention of Citizenship | 151 |
Politics and Social Theory | 166 |
Social Theory Morality and Ethics | 183 |
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action analysis Anthony Giddens argues argument autonomy backdrop Bauman Beck Beck's Castoriadis central chapter citizenship communication communitarians complex conception concerns constituted context core creative critical theory critique cultural deconstruction Derrida desire discourse domination Elliott emotional ethics as sociality fantasy feminist forms Foucault Freud Freudian gender Giddens Giddens's global Habermas Habermas's human subjects identity increasingly individual institutional intersubjective issues Jacques Lacan Julia Kristeva Jürgen Habermas knowledge Kristeva Lacan Lacanian language Levinas linguistic means mirror mirror stage modernist moral narcissistic philosophy political science political theory postmodern postmodernist poststructuralism poststructuralist problems processes psyche psychic psychoanalysis public sphere queer theory radical imagination rational reflection reflexive modernization relations relationship repression reproduction risk society routine says semiotic sense sexuality signifier social imaginary social practices social thought social-theoretical sociologists sociology structuralist structure Symbolic Order technoscience theoretical theorists tion tradition transformation Ulrich Beck unconscious writes
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Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction Anthony Elliott No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Deadly Worlds: The Emotional Costs of Globalization Charles C. Lemert,Anthony Elliott Vista previa restringida - 2006 |