Post-structuralist and post-modernist sociology

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Post-structuralist and post-modernist sociology

edited by Scott Lash

(Schools of thought in sociology / series editor, John Urry, 9)(An Elgar reference collection)

Edward Elgar Pub., c1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This important volume - prepared by a leading authority in the field - presents those articles and excerpts that have served as pivotal texts in the development of post-structuralism and post-modernism. The book will be an essential reference point to an area of sociological theory that is attracting increasing attention.

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Contents: Part I: Structuralism: Social Structures, Part II: Semiotic Structures, Part III: Post-Structuralism, Part IV: Post-Modernism: The Classical Conception, Part IV: Modernity: The Alternative Critique Part I - Structuralism: Social Structures E. Durkheim and M. Mauss (1963), 'Primitive Classification' D. Lockwood (1964), 'Social Integration and System Integration' E. Balibar (1970), 'From Periodization to the Modes of Production' G.A. Cohen (1982), 'Functional Explanation, Consequence Explanation and Marxism' Part II - Semiotic Structures R. Barthes (1972), 'Myth Today' M. Foucault (1971), 'Orders of Discourse' E. Said (1974), 'An Ethics of Language' J. Mitchell (1982), 'Introduction - I, to Idem and J. Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality, Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne' Part III - Post-Structuralism U. Eco (1979), 'Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs' R. Rorty (1978), 'Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida' D. Carroll (1982), 'Disruptive Discourse and Critical Power: The Conditions of Archaeology and Genealogy' H. Cixous (1976), 'The Laugh of the Medusa' Part IV - Post-Modernism: The Classical Conception G. Deleuze and F. Guattari (1984), 'Psychoanalysis and Capitalism' P. Dews, 'The Letter and the Line: Discourse and its Other in Lyotard' D. Bell (1976), 'The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse' M. Poster (1981), 'Technology and Culture in Habermas and Baudrillard' A. Gutmann, 'Communitarian Critics of Liberalism' Part V - Modernity: The Alternative Critique M. Foucault (1987), 'Technologies of the Self' N. Luhmann (1989), 'Ecological Communication' M. Berman (1983), 'Modernism in New York' Name Index

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