The Blackwell reader in contemporary social theory / edited by Anthony Elliott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface.Acknowledgements.Introduction: Anthony Elliott. Part I: The Theory of the Subject: 1. The Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man: Herbert Marcuse. 2. Language and Speech: Roland Barthes. 3. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I in Psychoanalytic Experience: Jacques Lacan. 4. Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva. 5. The Individual and Representation: Cornelius Castoriadis. Part II: Social Structure and Institutional Analysis: 6. The Means of Correct Training: Michel Foucault. 7. Structures, Habitus, Practices: Pierre Bourdieu. 8. Elements of the Theory of Structuration: Anthony Giddens. 9. Society Turns Back upon Itself: Alain Touraine. 10. The Concept of Society: Niklas Luhmann. 11. Individualization and "Precarious Freedoms": Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Centered Sociology: Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. Part III: Contemporary Critical Theory: 12. The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld: Jurgen Habermas. 13. Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights, and Solidarity: Axel Honneth. 14. Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity: Albrecht Wellmer. Part IV: Race, Multiculturalism, Difference: 15. DissemiNation: Homi K. Bhabha. 16. Freud and the Epistemology of Race: Sander L. Gilman. 17. Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity: Paul Gilroy. 18. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Part V: Feminism, Gender, and Sexual Difference: 19. The Reproduction of Mothering: Nancy Chodorow. 20. This Sex which Is Not One: Luce Irigaray. 21. Gender Trouble: Judith Butler. 22. Living with Uncertainty: Jeffrey Weeks. 23. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective: Donna J. Haraway. Part VI: The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate: 24. Postmodernism: David Harvey. 25. The Postmodern Condition: Jean-Francois Lyotard. 26. Simulations: Jean Baudrillard. 27. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Frederic Jameson. 28. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism: Seyla Benhabib. 29. Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence: Zygmunt Bauman.Index.