The Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social TheorySteven Seidman Cambridge University Press, 25/11/1994 - 312 من الصفحات The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The postmodern condition | 27 |
Genealogy and social criticism | 39 |
Method social science and social hope | 46 |
The new cultural politics of difference | 65 |
A manifesto for cyborgs Science technology and socialist feminism in the 1980s | 82 |
The end of sociological theory | 119 |
The theoretical subjects of This Bridge Called My Back and AngloAmerican feminism | 140 |
Subjectivity in social analysis | 171 |
Is there a postmodern sociology? | 187 |
On ethnographic allegory | 205 |
Rhetoric textuality and the postmodern turn in sociological theory | 229 |
Social criticism without philosophy An encounter between feminism and postmodernism | 242 |
Poststructuralism and sociology | 265 |
Deconstructing equalityversus difference Or the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism | 282 |
The plague of discourse Politics literary theory and AIDS | 299 |
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AIDS allegory American argue argument articulate become binary Black claim concept consciousness constituted construction contested critique cyborg deconstruct defense Derrida discourse domination Donna Haraway empirical epistemology equality ethnographic example experience feminism feminist theory Foucault foundations gender hermeneutic historical human identity ideology intellectual interpretation Jean-François Lyotard knowledge language language games Lee Edelman legitimation literal literary logic Lyotard Marxism meaning metanarrative metaphor Michel Foucault modern moral Mpongwé narrative nature Nisa normative notion object opposition organic philosophy politics of difference position post-structuralist postmodern turn postmodernist poststructuralism practice pragmatic produced question race radical radical feminism reality relations representation reproduction rhetorical scientific sense sexism sexual social analysis social criticism social sciences social theory socialist feminism society sociological theory specific story strategies structure struggle texts textual theoretical theorists tion tradition truth University Press vocabulary Western woman women of color writing York