The basic concept of society has come under attack--political acts, critical theory, new media and even history itself have undermined what we think of as the social. The Future of Social Theory brings together new interviews with the world's leading social theorists on what society means today: Zygmunt Bauman, John Urry, Saska Sassen, Bruno Latour, Scott Lash, Nikolas Rose, Judith Butler and Francoise Verges. The topics covered include: liquid modernization and the individualization of society; the shift towards global forms of chaos and complexity; the displacement of the social into global city networks; the shift away from a theory of the social to a theory of space; the transformation of society with the rise of new technology; the continuing influence of historical forms of political power; society as a gendered idea; and society as a product of Empire.
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Ignoring price, 4 stars. For the retail price, 1 star,
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This book is a series of interviews with some important contemporary social theorists. The interviews are pretty good--the interviewer is knowledgeable but isn't out to act like a know-it-all, and the theorists sometimes explain things pretty clearly and in novel ways. For followers of social theory, well worth the $2.50 used price on Amazon.
But $131 or $55 retail? For a book of stock interviews, of just over 200pp.? That's odious. The publisher apparently is just trying to steal from needy scholarly libraries, and the editor should be ashamed to have cooperated. For leftist scholars, this is one more tawdry capitalist undertaking--but they're postmodernists, so calling them unprincipled is not especially an insult, I guess.
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postcolonial challenges, Françoise Vergès, transnational social forms, methodological cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan turn, methodological nationalism, global fluid, social itself, global complexity, liquid modernity, first modernity, different rationality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Future of Social Theory, Zygmunt Bauman, New York, United States, Judith Butler, Liquid Sociality, Reanimating the Social, Ulrich Beck, Nikolas Rose, The Cosmopolitan Turn, Critique of Information, Governing the Social, Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, Another Modernity, Scott Lash, John Urry, Reflexive Modernization, Powers of Freedom, Complex Mobilities, Gabriel Tarde, Rethinking Social Theory, Sociology Beyond Societies, Pierre Bourdieu, Herculine Barbin Browse Sample Pages:
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postcolonial challenges, Françoise Vergès, transnational social forms, methodological cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan turn, methodological nationalism, global fluid, social itself, global complexity, liquid modernity, first modernity, different rationality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Future of Social Theory, Zygmunt Bauman, New York, United States, Judith Butler, Liquid Sociality, Reanimating the Social, Ulrich Beck, Nikolas Rose, The Cosmopolitan Turn, Critique of Information, Governing the Social, Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, Another Modernity, Scott Lash, John Urry, Reflexive Modernization, Powers of Freedom, Complex Mobilities, Gabriel Tarde, Rethinking Social Theory, Sociology Beyond Societies, Pierre Bourdieu, Herculine Barbin Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Future of Society (Blackwell Manifestos) by William Outhwaite on 6 pages
- The Future of Society (Blackwell Manifestos) by William Outhwaite on 6 pages
- Zygmunt Bauman (Key Sociologists) by Tony Blackshaw in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Auguste Comte (Key Sociologists) by Mike Gane in Back Matter
- Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power and the Self by Gerard Delanty in Back Matter
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