The Postmodern Turn
New Perspectives on Social Theory

This book collects the most important statements of the postmodern theory, including the classics essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault, and Rorty.

Steven Seidman (Edited by)

9780521458795, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 November 1994

322 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.508 kg

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.

1. The postmodern condition Jean-Francois Lyotard
2. Genealogy and social criticism Michel Foucault
3. Method, social science, and social hope Richard Rorty
4. The new cultural politics of difference Cornel West
5. A manifesto for Cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s Donna Haraway
6. The end of sociological theory Steven Seidman
7. The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism Norma Alarcon
8. Contingent foundations: feminism and the question of postmodernism Judith Butler
9. Subjectivity and social analysis Renato Rosaldo
10. Is there a postmodern sociology? Zygmunt Bauman
11. On ethnographic allegory James Clifford
12. Rhetoric, textuality, and the postmodern turn in sociological theory Richard Brown
13. Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson
14. Post-structuralism and sociology Charles Lemert
15. Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism Joan Scott
16. The plague of discourse: politics, literary theory, and AIDS Lee Edelman.

Subject Areas: Social theory [JHBA]