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Title

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

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Seidman, Steven.

Description

vi, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The Postmodern Turn gathers together some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. Addressing the postmodern social theory that emphasizes the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. Contributors include well-known theorists in the varied fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.

Subject

• Bürger, Christa 1935-
• Sociology > Philosophy
• Social sciences > Philosophy
• Postmodernism > Social aspects
• Postmodernism > Social aspects
• Social sciences > Philosophy
• Sociology > Philosophy
• Soziologische Theorie
• Postmoderne
• Sociologie
• Theorieën
• Postmodernisme
• Poststructuralisme
• Ciencias humanas e sociais
• Sociologia (filosofia e teoria)
• Tradicao e modernidade
• Sociologie et philosophie
• Postmodernisme > Aspect social
• Philosophie sociale
• Postmoderne
• Soziologische Theorie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The postmodern condition / Jean-François Lyotard -- Genealogy and social criticism / Michel Foucault -- Method, social science, and social hope / Richard Rorty -- The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West -- A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s / Donna Haraway -- The end of sociological theory / Steven Seidman -- The theoretical subject(s) of This bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcón -- Contingent foundations: feminism and the question of 'postmodernism" / Judith Butler -- Subjectivity in social analysis / Renato Rosaldo -- Is there a postmodern sociology? / Zygmunt Bauman -- On ethnographic allegory / James Clifford -- Rhetoric, textuality, and the postmodern turn in sociological theory / Richard Harvey Brown -- Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism / Nancy Fraser, Linda Nicholson -- Post-structuralism and sociology / Charles C. Lemert -- Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism / Joan W. Scott -- The plague of discourse: politics, literary theory, and AIDS / Lee Edelman.

ISBN

• 052145235X
• 9780521452359
• 052145879X
• 9780521458795

LCCN

93048758

OCLC

• ocm29596835
• 29596835
• SCSB-8788212

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library