Books written by Anthony Elliott

Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory

Whichever ones, among others, apply, these are marks that cannot be gotten around just as, for example, a criminal record cannot be erased. They may include genetic or physical attributes such as deafness, which in some cases can be ...
Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva

Hélène Cixous, 'Sorties5, in F. Marks and I. de Courtivron (eds), New French Feminisms (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1980), p. 95. 15. Hélène Cixous, 'The laugh of the Medusa5, in Marks and de Courtivron, New French Feminisms, pp. 259-60.
On Society

These include William Georg Stauth and Bryan Hennis's Max Webers Fragstellung,16 Turner's Nietzsche's Dance,17 Daniel W. Conway's Nietzsche and the Political,18 and Keith Ansell-Pearson's An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political ...
Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives

... on current trends in the selfreinventions of teenagers: 'What I'm seeing is this absolute cult of celebrity ... I've got girls who want to look like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, but what they want above all is their ...
The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization

... self - composure it was women like the Jane Eyre of Charlotte Bronte's imagination . No blacks needed apply for the status , save for the now famous madwoman in the attic in Jane Eyre and other accidents of the colonial system .
Deadly Worlds: The Emotional Costs of Globalization

... also know from the great nineteenth - century novels of English literature , if any among the landed classes were deprived of a sense of individual self - composure , it was women like Jane Eyre of Charlotte Bronte's imagination .
On Society

... 35,144,150 Kristeva on, 126 'mediated socialities', 129 recognition of, 151 solidarity with, 67 Outhwaite,William, 22, 24, 26–7 outsourcing, 93, 94, 132 Paine,Thomas, 4 Palin, Sarah, 64 parallel communities, 61–2 Parsons,Talcott, 1, ...
Mobile Lives

This book represents a novel approach in "post-carbon" social theory.
The Consequences of Global Disasters

The Consequences of Global Disasters makes a distinctive contribution to the ever-expanding field of disaster research by developing a multi-contextual, multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological approach to the social analysis of ...
On Society

The book also critiques recent social theories that simply equate the demise of society with globalization, the communications revolution or multiculturalism, and in so doing provides an original insight into today's world.
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities

The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism.
Identity in Question

"A spectacular collection of essays by the most noted theorists of identity. The book well frames the issues around identity that presently are defining living in the early 21st century ... A must read.
Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

Archer, Margaret (2007) Making our Way through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility. New York: Cambridge University Press. Bauman, Zygmunt (1998) “On glocalization: or globalization for some, localization for others”, ...
Contemporary Social Theory: An introduction

This book is arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on contemporary social theory.
Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory

This Handbook, edited by Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before.
Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction

This book is arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on contemporary social theory.
The Routledge Companion to Social Theory

Including a helpful glossary of key terms and theorists, this accessible guide is essential reading for students and professionals in social theory, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, women’s studies and politics.
Psychoanalysis at its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn

Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis have to play in the cultural debate in postmodern times?
Routledge Revivals: Anthony Elliott

... 17-18, 213-15 identity 98 weakened 56-7, 58 ego-libido 29, 55 ego-psychology 6, 55, 96, 100, 238 emancipation Habermas 97, 104-5, 217 Laclau and Mouffe 160 Marcuse 85, 86, 87, 91 Englightenment 103, 105 equality 72, 106 Eros 37, ...
The Contemporary Bauman

This text covers Bauman’s contribution to sociology and social theory.