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Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google's algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences? Tracing the changing fortunes of artificial intelligence, Elliott develops a systematic account of how automated intelligent machines impact different sph...

∗ Highly readable and bold defence of the relevance and importance of Freud′s theories to contemporary culture. ∗ A lucid application of Freudian concepts to current theoretical issues in the social sciences and the humanities. ∗ Includes contributions from highly distinguished scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.

∗ Highly readable and bold defence of the relevance and importance of Freud′s theories to contemporary culture. ∗ A lucid application of Freudian concepts to current theoretical issues in the social sciences and the humanities. ∗ Includes contributions from highly distinguished scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.

∗ Selections from the best-known intellectuals and researchers in social theory around the globe. ∗ Includes discussion of not only traditional aspects of social theory, but also recent controversies surrounding such topics as self, identity and subjectivity, race, multiculturalism, modernism and postmodernism.

The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory" provides a comprehensive and exciting introduction to the major developments, debates, and schools of thought in social theory today.

Key Contemporary Social Theorists" is a comprehensive introduction to some of the most significant figures in social, cultural, political and philosophical thought of the twentieth century. This collection of newly commissioned entries offers students and scholars an authoritative guide on current contributions to contemporary social theory and social science. Preceding the entries is a well-organized chart of the main trends of development in...