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Contemporary Social Theory by This book is arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on contemporary social theory. Written by one of the world s most acclaimed social theorists, Anthony Elliott provides a dazzlingly accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern social theory from the Frankfurt School to globalization theories and beyond. In distilling the essentials of social theory, Elliott reviews the works of major theorists including Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel Castells, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Giorgio Agamben and Manuel De Landa. Every social theorist discussed is contextualized in a wider political and historical context, and from which their major contributions to social theory are critically assessed. This book is essential reading for students and professionals in the fields of social theory, sociology and cultural studies, as it is both an original enquiry and a consummate introduction to social theory."
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Biopolitics by This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical--the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body--is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of essential medicines and medical technologies. Michel Foucault gave new and unprecedented meaning to the term "biopolitics" in his 1976 essay "Right of Death and Power over Life." In this anthology, that touchstone piece is followed by essays in which biopolitics is implicitly anticipated as a problem by Hannah Arendt and later altered, critiqued, deconstructed, and refined by major political and social theorists who explicitly engaged with Foucault's ideas. By focusing on the concept of biopolitics, rather than applying it to specific events and phenomena, this Reader provides an enduring framework for assessing the central problematics of modern political thought. Contributors. Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, Timothy Campbell, Gilles Deleuze, Roberto Esposito, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Michael Hardt, Achille Mbembe, Warren Montag, Antonio Negri, Jacques Ranci#65533;re, Adam Sitze, Peter Sloterdijk, Paolo Virno, Slavoj Žižek
Social Theory by The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides awide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The newedition preserves, and further enhances, the book?s strikingqualities ? its clarity, reliability, comprehensiveness andscholarship. The theorists treated include Montesquieu, Adam Smithand the Scottish Enlightenment, Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Maistre,Gobineau, Darwin, Spencer, Kautsky, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Weber,Simmel, Freud, Lukács, Gramsci, Heidegger, Keynes, Hayek,Parsons, the Frankfurt School, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser,Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Beck, and Giddens. Callinicos examines the ways in which social theory grew out ofthe eighteenth century Enlightenment, a time when societiesemerging in the West ceased to invoke the authority of tradition tovalidate themselves, instead looking to scientific knowledge tojustify their mastery of the world. He traces social theory?sconnections with central themes in modern philosophy, with thedevelopment of political economy, and with the impact ofevolutionary biology on social thought. The book has been carefully updated to ensure that it engageswith the most up-to-date debates in social theory, and concludeswith a substantial new chapter. Here Callinicos assesses thesignificance of contemporary debates about globalization, includingthe recent re-emergence of critiques of capitalism and imperialismin the work of Michael Hardt, Toni Negri, Luc Boltanski, EveChiapello, David Harvey, Robert Brenner, Giovanni Arrighi, andSlavoj ?i?ek. This updated version of a widely praised text will be essentialreading for students of politics, sociology and social andpolitical thought.
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The Queer Art of Failure by The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Judith Halberstam proposes "low theory" as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one's way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. She pays particular attention to animated children's films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido.
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Encountering the Everyday by Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something that just is, something unnoticed. But everyday life is perhaps the most important dimension of society - it's where we live most parts of our lives with each other. This book provides a clear, contemporary and comprehensive overview of the sociologies of everyday life. Looking at everyday activities and experiences, from language and emotions to popular culture and leisure, Encountering the Everyday explores what social structures, orders and processes mean to us on a daily basis. The book carefully leads the reader through historical developments in the field, beginning at the earlier Chicago school and finishing with up-to-date ideas of postmodernism and interactionism. Each chapter relates theoretical ideas directly to case studies and real empirical research to make complex concepts and core issues accessible, relevant and engaging. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this truly global book will inspire and inform all students and scholars of everyday life sociology.
