Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory

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Anthony Elliott, Bryan S Turner
SAGE, Jul 23, 2001 - Social Science - 400 pages

This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Frederic Jameson, Richard Rorty, Nancy Chodorow, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Luce Irigaray and Donna Haraway. In guiding students through the key figures in an accessible and authoritative fashion, the book provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social theorists and charts the relationship between different traditions of social, cultural and political thought.

 

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Contents

Martin Heidegger 9
2
Maurice MerleauPonty
30
Herbert Marcuse
43
Theodor Adorno
59
Jürgen Habermas
84
Peter Berger
107
Michel Foucault
117
Jacques Lacan
140
Henri Lefebvre
226
Niklas Luhmann
249
Richard Rorty
270
Anthony Giddens
292
Pierre Bourdieu
315
Donna J Haraway
338
Stuart Hall
360
Edward W Said
382

Roland Barthes
162
Luce Irigaray
184
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
205
Index
395
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About the author (2001)

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

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TitleProfiles in Contemporary Social Theory
EditorsAnthony Elliott, Bryan S Turner
PublisherSAGE, 2001
ISBN0761965890, 9780761965893
Length400 pages
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