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The postmodern turn : new perspectives on social theory / edited by Steven Seidman.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.Description: vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 052145235X (hardback)
  • 052145879X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 SEI 20
LOC classification:
  • HM24 .P663 1994
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents 1. The postmodern condition Jean-Francois Lyotard; 2. Genealogy and social criticism Michel Foucault; 3. Method, social science, and social hope Richard Rorty; 4. The new cultural politics of difference Cornel West; 5. A manifesto for Cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s Donna Haraway; 6. The end of sociological theory Steven Seidman; 7. The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism Norma Alarcon; 8. Contingent foundations: feminism and the question of postmodernism Judith Butler; 9. Subjectivity and social analysis Renato Rosaldo; 10. Is there a postmodern sociology? Zygmunt Bauman; 11. On ethnographic allegory James Clifford; 12. Rhetoric, textuality, and the postmodern turn in sociological theory Richard Brown; 13. Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson; 14. Post-structuralism and sociology Charles Lemert; 15. Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism Joan Scott; 16. The plague of discourse: politics, literary theory, and AIDS Lee Edelman.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents
1. The postmodern condition Jean-Francois Lyotard;
2. Genealogy and social criticism Michel Foucault;
3. Method, social science, and social hope Richard Rorty;
4. The new cultural politics of difference Cornel West;
5. A manifesto for Cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s Donna Haraway;
6. The end of sociological theory Steven Seidman;
7. The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism Norma Alarcon;
8. Contingent foundations: feminism and the question of postmodernism Judith Butler;
9. Subjectivity and social analysis Renato Rosaldo;
10. Is there a postmodern sociology? Zygmunt Bauman;
11. On ethnographic allegory James Clifford;
12. Rhetoric, textuality, and the postmodern turn in sociological theory Richard Brown;
13. Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson;
14. Post-structuralism and sociology Charles Lemert;
15. Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism Joan Scott;
16. The plague of discourse: politics, literary theory, and AIDS Lee Edelman.

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