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Postmodern social theory / George Ritzer.

Title
Postmodern social theory / George Ritzer.
Author
Ritzer, George.
Publication
New York : McGraw-Hill, c1997.

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Description
xix, 296 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Postmodernism > Social aspects
  • Sociology > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-280) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Postmodern Social Theory, Sociology, and Sociological Theory -- 2. The Development of Postmodern Social Theory -- 3. Michel Foucault: Part 1: Archaeology of Knowledge; Genealogy of Power -- 4. Michel Foucault: Part 2: Sexuality, Power, and Self -- 5. Jean Baudrillard: Part 1: The Basic Theoretical Ideas -- 6. Jean Baudrillard: Part 2: Problems in the Contemporary World and the Possibility of Dealing With Them -- 7. Other French Postmodern Thinkers: Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Lacan, Virilio -- 8. Other European Perspectives: Giddens, Beck, Habermas, Bauman, and Harvey -- 9. American Interventions: Bell, Jameson, Feminists, and Multiculturalists -- 10. Postmodern Social Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory -- 11. Postmodern Social Theory: An Application -- 12. Criticisms of, and the Move Beyond, Postmodernism.
ISBN
007053019X (acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^96021073^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library