The New Social Theory Reader

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This 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. In 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: the post-foundational debates over morality, justice and epistemological truth the social meaning of nationalism, multiculturalism and globalization identity debates around gender, sexuality, race, the self and post-coloniality. This 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. The New Social Theory Reader is an essential, reliable guide to current theoretical debates. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION PART ONE General theory without foundations NEW CRITICAL THEORY 1 CONTRIBUTIONS TO A DISCOURSE THEORY OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY 2 PERSONAL IDENTITY AND DISRESPECT SEMIOTIC STRUCTURALISM 3 HISTORICAL METAPHORS AND MYTHICAL REALITIES 4 ON ETHNOGRAPHIC ALLEGORY POSTSTRUCTURALISM 5 POWER/KNOWLEDGE 6 OUTLINE OF A THEORY OF PRACTICE CULTURAL STUDIES 7 CULTURAL STUDIES 8 THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS: NARRATIVE AS A SOCIALLY SYMBOLIC ACT PART TWO The normative turn JUSTICE 9 A DEFENSE OF PLURALISM AND EQUALITY 10 POLITICAL LIBERALISM ETHICS 11 WHOSE JUSTICE? WHICH RATIONALITY? 12 POSTMODERN ETHICS TRUTH 13 PRAGMATISM, RELATIVISM, AND IRRATIONALISM 14 FEMINISM AND THE QUESTION OF POSTMODERNISM PART THREE Rethinking power PERFORMATIVITY 15 IMITATION AND GENDER INSUBORDINATION 16 PERFORMANCE AND POWER DOMINATION/LIBERATION 17 FROM REDISTRIBUTION TO RECOGNITION? DILEMMAS OF JUSTICE IN A 'POSTSOCIALIST' AGE 18 QUEER POLITICS BIOPOLITICS 19 THE BODY AND THE REPRODUCTION OF FEMININITY: A FEMINIST APPROPRIATION OF FOUCAULT 20 THE POLITICS OF LIFE ITSELF PART FOUR Societies and world order POSTMODERNITY 21 SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS 22 THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY CIVIL SOCIETY 23 THE UTOPIA OF CIVIL SOCIETY 24 GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: AN ANSWER TO WAR MULTICULTURALISM 25 JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE 26 MULTICULTURAL CITIZENSHIP NATIONALISM 27 IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF NATIONALISM 28 WHOSE IMAGINED COMMUNITY? WORLD POLITICS 29 THE END OF HISTORY? 30 THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? GLOBALIZATION 31 A NEW SOCIETY 32 THE COSMOPOLITAN PERSPECTIVE EMPIRE 33 FROM DIRECT TO INDIRECT RULE 34 RETURN TO EMPIRE: THE NEW U.S. IMPERIALISM IN COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE PART FIVE Identities SELF 35 MODERNITY AND SELF-IDENTITY: SELF AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE MODERN AGE 36 THE MAKING OF MODERN IDENTITY GENDER 37 GENDER AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE 38 "WESTERNIZATION", RESPECT FOR CULTURES AND THIRD-WORLD FEMINISTS SEXUALITY 39 THEORIZING HETERO- AND HOMOSEXUALITY 40 FROM IDENTITY TO QUEER POLITICS: SHIFTS IN NORMATIVE HETEROSEXUALITY RACE 41 RACIAL FORMATION 42 THE MIRAGE OF AN UNMARKED WHITENESS POSTCOLONIALITY 43 ORIENTALISM 44 POSTCOLONIAL MELANCHOLIA Index