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This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences. Delanty examines the writings of a number of key contemporary thinkers, including Habermas, Foucault, Bauman, Touraine, Giddens and Beck, and provides a clear account of the strengths and limitations of their work.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Defining Modernity: The Quest for Autonomy
- 2 The Limits of Modernity: From Autonomy to Fragmentation
- 3 Discourse and Democracy: Habermasâs Theory of Modernity
- 4 Creativity and the Rise of Social Postmodernism: Foucault, Lyotard and Bauman
- 5 The Return of Agency: Touraine and Melucci
- 6 Reflexive Modernization: Beck and Giddens
- Conclusion: Knowledge, Democracy and Discursive Institutionalization
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index