The postmodern turn : new perspectives on social theory / [print] edited by Steven Seidman. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1994. - vi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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



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Sociology--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Postmodernism--Social aspects.

HM24.S458.P678 1994