ISBN:
0761965890
,
0761965882
,
9781847871237
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9780761965893
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 400 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory
DDC:
300/.92/2
Keywords:
Social sciences Philosophy
;
Social scientists Biography
;
Philosophy
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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, Fredric 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 the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Editor's Introduction ; 1 Martin Heidegger ; 2 Georges Bataille ; 3 Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; 4 Herbert Marcuse ; 5 Theodor Adorno ; 6 Walter Benjamin ; 7 Jurgen Habermas ; 8 Erving Goffman ; 9 Peter Berger ; 10 Michel Foucault ; 11 Jean-Francois Lyotard ; 12 Jacques Lacan ; 13 Jacques Derrida ; 14 Roland Barthes ; 15 Julia Kristeva ; 16 Luce Irigaray ; 17 Jean Baudrillard ; 18 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari ; 19 Paul Virilio ; 20 Henri Lefebvre ; 21 Paul Ricoeur ; 22 Niklas Luhmann ; 23 Charles Taylor ; 24 Richard Rorty
Description / Table of Contents:
25 Nancy Chodorow 26 Anthony Giddens ; 27 Ulrich Beck ; 28 Pierre Bourdieu ; 29 Zygmunt Bauman ; 30 Donna J. Haraway ; 31 Frederic Jameson ; 32 Stuart Hall ; 33 Juliet Mitchell ; 34 Edward W. Said ; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
