09/29/21 Contemporary Social Theory | University of Kent Contemporary Social Theory View Online 230 items Useful reference works (6 items) Key contemporary social theorists - Anthony Elliott, Larry J. Ray, 2003 Book | Core (Must Read) Contemporary social theory: an introduction - Anthony Elliott, 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) Social theory: the multicultural and classic readings - Charles C. Lemert, 2004 Book | Core (Must Read) Contested knowledge: social theory today - Steven Seidman, c2004 Book | Core (Must Read) Week 13: Introduction: What is social theory? (16 items) Key readings: (3 items) Contemporary social theory: an introduction - Anthony Elliott, 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Chapter 1: ‘The Textures of Society’). Why Is Classical Theory Classical?1 - R. W. Connell, 1997 Article | Core (Must Read) The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) | Feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge: questions of marginality Further readings: (13 items) Rethinking modernity: postcolonialism and the sociological imagination - 1974- Bhambra, Gurminder K., 2007 Book | Background (Could Read) 1/18 09/29/21 Contemporary Social Theory | University of Kent Current Sociology - Gurminder K Bhambra, July 2014 Journal | Background (Could Read) | (Special Issue: Knowledge Production in a Global Context – **see introduction and all articles). Southern theory: the global dynamics of knowledge in social science - Raewyn Connell, 2007 Book | Background (Could Read) Key contemporary social theorists - Anthony Elliott, Larry J. Ray, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read) Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective - Donna Haraway, 1988 Article | Background (Could Read) Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins, 1986 Article | Background (Could Read) Black feminist thought: knowledge consciousness and the politics of empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins, 1991 Book | Background (Could Read) Critical theory: selected essays - Max Horkheimer, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp. 188–243. Social theory: the multicultural and classic readings - Charles C. Lemert, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read) Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, c2003 Book | Background (Could Read) Editors' Introduction Reinscribing British sociology: some critical reflections - Thomas Osborne, Nikolas Rose, Mike Savage, 2008-11-24 Article | Background (Could Read) Contested knowledge: social theory in the postmodern era - Steven Seidman, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read) Engendering the social: feminist encounters with sociological theory - Barbara L. Marshall, Anne Witz, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read) Part I: Contested Foundations Week 14: The Frankfurt School (13 items) Key readings: (2 items) 2/18 09/29/21 Contemporary Social Theory | University of Kent Dialectic of enlightenment: philosophical fragments - Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, 2002 Book | Core (Must Read) | Enlightenment as Mass Deception Culture industry reconsidered Webpage | Core (Must Read) | pp. 12-19. Further readings: (11 items) The essential Frankfurt School reader - A. Arato, 1978 Book | Background (Could Read) Critical theory: a very short introduction - Stephen Eric Bronner, Dawsonera, c2011 Book | Background (Could Read) Contemporary social theory: an introduction - Anthony Elliott, 2014 Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 2: ‘The Frankfurt School’). The philosophical discourse of modernity: twelve lectures - Ju ̈ rgen Habermas, 1987 Book | Background (Could Read) | Ch.V Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas - David Held, 1990 Book | Background (Could Read) Critical theory: selected essays - Max Horkheimer, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp. 188–243. Between philosophy and social science: selected early writings - Max Horkheimer, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read) | The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research Critical theory, Marxism and modernity - Douglas Kellner, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read) Critical theory and society: a reader - Stephen Eric Bronner, Douglas Kellner, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Introduction). Critical Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Webpage | Background (Could Read) | (entry on ‘Critical Theory’): The Frankfurt School: its history, theories, and political significance - Rolf Wiggershaus, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read) Week 15: Psychoanalysis (21 items) 3/18 09/29/21 Contemporary Social Theory | University of Kent Key readings: (3 items) Civilization, society and religion: group psychology, civilization and its discontents and other works - Sigmund Freud, Albert Dickson, James Strachey, 1985 Book | Core (Must Read) | Vol 12. For and against psychoanalysis - Stephen Frosh, 1997 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp.175-227. For and against psychoanalysis - Stephen Frosh, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp.175-227. Further readings: (18 items) What does the black man want - H Bhabha Webpage | Background (Could Read) Still crazy after all these years: women, writing and psychoanalysis - Rachel Bowlby, 1992 Book | Background (Could Read) | Still crazy after all these years: travels in feminism and Psychoanalysis Between feminism and psychoanalysis - Teresa Brennan, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read) Case histories I: 'Dora' and 'Little Hans' - Sigmund Freud, Alix Strachey, James Strachey, Angela Richards, Alan Tyson, Sigmund Freud, Sigmund Freud, 1977 Book | Background (Could Read) | Still crazy after all these years: travels in feminism and Psychoanalysis On metapsychology: the theory of psychoanalysis ; 'Beyond the pleasure principle,' 'The egoand the id' and other works - Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Angela Richards, 1984 Book | Background (Could Read) | Mourning and Melancholia On sexuality: three essays on the theory of sexuality, and other works - Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Angela Richards, 1977 Book | Background (Could Read) | Female Sexuality Introductory lectures on psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Angela Richards , 1973 Book | Background (Could Read) | Studies in Hysteria Freud, race, and gender - Sander L. Gilman, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read) Postcolonial theory and psychoanalysis: from uneasy engagements to effective critique - Mrinalini Greedharry, 2008 Book | Background (Could Read) The gendered unconscious: can gender discourses subvert psychoanalysis? - Louise Gyler, 2010 Book | Background (Could Read) 4/18 09/29/21 Contemporary Social Theory | University of Kent The gendered unconscious: can gender discourses subvert psychoanalysis? - Louise Gyler, 2010 Book | Background (Could Read) Dark continents: psychoanalysis and colonialism - Ranjana Khanna, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Introduction). Powers of horror: an essay on abjection - Julia Kristeva, 1982 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp. 1-31. The four fundamental concepts of psycho-analysis - Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, Alan Sheridan, 1979 Book | Background (Could Read) States of fantasy - Jacqueline Rose, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read) Freud and the non-European - Edward W. Said, Jacqueline Rose, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read) THE INCOMMENSURABILITY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORY - JOAN W. SCOTT, 2012-02 Article | Background (Could Read) Sigmund Freud - Pamela Thurschwell, c2009 Book | Background (Could Read) Week 16: Post-structuralism (20 items) Key readings: (2 items) Writing and difference - Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass, 2001 Book | Core (Must Read) | Structure Sign and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences Philosophy in a time of terror: dialogues with Ju ̈ rgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida - Ju ̈ rgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Giovanna Borradori, 2003 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially ‘Introduction’ and ‘Deconstructing Terrorism – Derrida’). Further readings: (18 items) Derrida & the political - Richard Beardsworth, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read) 5/18 09/29/21 Contemporary Social Theory | University of Kent Deconstruction and Everyday Life, Or How Deconstruction Helped Me Quit Smoking | Boothroyd | Culture Machine Webpage | Background (Could Read) Of grammatology - Jacques Derrida, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read) Spectres de Marx: l'E ́ tat de la dette, de travail du deuil et la nouvelle Internationale - Jacques Derrida, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read) Rogues: two essays on reason - Jacques Derrida, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read) Taking Turns: Democracy to Come and Intergenerational Justice - Matthias Fritsch, 2011-11 Article | Background (Could Read) | Moodle Derrida's Ethical Turn and America: Looking Back from the Crossroads of Global Terrorism and the Enlightenment by Michel Rosenfeld :: SSRN Webpage | Background (Could Read) Deconstructions: a user's guide - Nicholas Royle, 2000 Book | Background (Could Read) Jacques Derrida - Nicholas Royle, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read) Margins of philosophy - J. Derrida, 1982 Book | Background (Could Read) Poststructuralist ethics: subjectivity, responsibility and the space of community - E. Jeffrey Popke, 2003-6-1 Article | Background (Could Read) Deconstruction and democracy: Derrida's Politics of friendship - A. J. P. Thomson, c2005 Book | Background