This thought-provoking new book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to American gender and sexuality theory. It aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of gender and sexuality theory by fundamentally challenging the paradigm of social constructionism.
This thought-provoking new book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to American gender and sexuality theory. It aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of gender and sexuality theory by fundamentally challenging the paradigm of social constructionism.
In this Palgrave Pivot, Duane Rousselle aims to disrupt the hold that pragmatist ideology has had over American sociology by demonstrating that the social bond has always been founded upon a fundamental and primordial bankruptcy. Using the Lacanian theory of "capitalist discourse, " Rousselle demonstrates that most of early American sociology suffered from an inadequate account of the "symbolic" within the mental and social lives of the indivi...
What's left to say about the anarchist canon? One answer might be that reflecting on the canon's construction can help reveal something about the ways in which anarchism has been misunderstood. Another possibility is that it locates anarchism --- in all its diversity and complexity --- in particular geographical and historical locations. The canon not only establishes the parameters of anarchist theory, it sets them in a particular (European) ...
Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory with developments in post-structuralist and post-modernist thought. "Post-Anarchism: A Reader" includes the most comprehensive collection of essays about this emergent body of thought, making it a...
Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory with developments in post-structuralist and post-modernist thought. "Post-Anarchism: A Reader" includes the most comprehensive collection of essays about this emergent body of thought, making it a...
