International handbook of contemporary social and political theory

Table of Contents:
Introduction Social, Political, and Cultural Theory since the Sixties: the Demise of Classical Marxism and Liberalism, the New Reality of the Welfare State, and the Loss of Epistemic Innocence by Stephen P. Turner and Gerard Delanty;
Part 1: Living Traditions;
1. The Marxist Legacy by Peter Beilharz;
2. Foucault and the Promise of Power without Dogma by Gary Wickham;
3. Accidental Conditions: the Social Consequences of Poststructuralist Philosophy by Thomas Docherty;
4. Lacanian Theory: Ideology, Enjoyment and the Spirit of Capitalism by Yannis Stavrakakis;
5. Bourdieu and his Legacy by Marcel Founrier;
6. Re-discovering Political Sovereignty: the Rebirth of French Political Philosophy by Nathalie Doyle;
7. Continuity through Rupture with the Frankfurt School: Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition by Mauro Basaure;
8. Lessons from Twentieth Century Political Philosophy before Rawls by Jeremy Shearmur;
9. Liberalism after Communitarianism by Charles Blattberg;
10. Republicanism; Non-Domination and the Free State by Richard Bellamy;
11. Pragmatism and Political Theory by Robert Talisse;
12. Methodological and Political Pluralism: Democracy, Pragmatism and Critical Theory by James Bohman;
13. What is 'Critical' about Critical Theory? by Patricia Hill Collins;
14. Feminist Social and Political Theory by Clare Mary Colebrook;
15. Latin American and Social Political Thought: A Historical and Analystical Perspective by Mauricio Domingues and Aurea Mota;
16. Intellectuals and Society: Sociological and Historical Perspectives by Patrick Baert and Joel Issac Part 2: New and Emerging Frameworks;
17. Power, Legitimacy and Authority by Stuart Clegg;
18. Modernity: from Convergence and Stability to Plurality and Transformation by Peter Wagner;
19. Social and Political Trust by Karen S. Cook and Brian D. Cook;
20. Environment and Risk by Tim Luke;
21. Networks: Emerging Frameworks for Analysis by Amelia Arsenault;
22. From Linquistic Performativity to Social Performance: the Development of a Concept by Moya Lloyd;
23. Nationalism and Social Theory: the Distinction between Community and Society by Steve Grosby;
24. Empire and Imperialism by Krishan Kumar;
25. Cosmopolitanism's Theoretical and Substantive Dimensions by Fuyuki Kurasawa;
26. Nature and Society by Byron Kaldis;
27. The Cognitive and Metacognitive Dimension of Social and Political Theory by Piet Strydom;
28. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Theory and Practice of Social and Politial Theory by John Gunnell;
29. Feminist Border Theory by Elena Ruiz-Aho;
30. Contemporary Chinese Political Thought by Guanjun Wu;
Part 3: Emerging Problems;
31. The Limits of Power and the Complexity of Powerlessness by Saskia Sassen;
32. Sovereignty, Security and the Exception: Towards Situating Postcolonial 'homo sacer' by Sheila Nair;
33. Future of the State by Georg Sørensen;
34. Modern Constitutionalism and the Challenges of Complex Pluralism by Paul Blokker; 35. Reflexive Integration: a Perspective on the Transformation of Europe by Erik O. Eriksen;
36. Transnational Activisms and the Global Justice Movement by Donatella della Porta and Raf Marchetti;
37. The Transnational Social Question by Thomas Faist;
38. Hospitality, Rights and Migrancy by Meyda Yegenoglu;
39. Social Suffering and the New Politics of Sentimentality by Iain Wilkinson;
40. New Forms of Value Production by Adam Arvidsson;
41. Memory Practices and Theory in a Global Age by Daniel Levy;
42. Post-secular Society by Austin Harrington.