Books written by Anthony Elliott

Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory

This stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory combines lively exposition and clarity with reflective social critique and original insights across areas such as American pragmatism, structural functionalism, ...
The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI

Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 141–144. Miller, T. (2019). Explanation in artificial intelligence: Insights from the social sciences. Artificial Intelligence, 267, 1–38. ... A tale of seven scientists and a new philosophy of science.
Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction

This book is an essential starting point for any exploration of the contribution of psychoanalysis to contemporary theory. "Anthony Elliott understands psychoanalysis on its own terms.
Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory

This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory.
Concepts of the Self

Anthony Elliott has written a new preface to this third edition to address some of the most recent developments in the field, and offers a powerful challenge to what he describes as ‘the emergence of anti-theories of the self’.
Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory

G. Bennington and B. Massumi, Manchester: Manchester University Press. McKenzie, J. (2006) 'Performance and globalization', in D. S. Madison and J. Hamera (eds) The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, London: Sage.
The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution

In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong.
Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies

For Wahlberg, somewhat contradicting Ellin, Entourage is a docu-drama about the “realities” of show business. But for fans of the series, its appeal rests on its depiction of a Playboy life style replete with money and free sexual ...
Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva

Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and ...
The Contemporary Bauman

Yet this is one of Bauman's starting points in which he also draws on psychoanalytic accounts of consuming desire. This, however, leads to a cul-de-sac both in psychoanalysis and in the story of manic consumerism Bauman tells in Liquid ...
Freud 2000

Freud 2000 is a bold defense of the relevance and importance of Freud to contemporary culture, offering a highly readable and lucid application of Freudian concepts to current theoretical issues in the social sciences and the humanities.
Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction

Fully revised and updated, the book examines the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to posthumanism, and from feminism and post-structuralism to globalization theory and beyond.
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?
Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva

... social theory acknowledges a Freudian debt. Psychoanalysis begins but does not end with Freud. Its subsequent development is extremely rich and diverse. Theoretical revisions, schools, and critiques have developed as strongly in ...
Social Theory Since Freud: Traversing Social Imaginaries

... Transition , I argued that Lacan's linguistic or post - structuralist reintepretation of the Freudian unconscious has , in ... psychoanalysis persuasively show that the status of the psychic representative prior to representation , and ...
Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory

... psychoanalysis and social changes ' , The Institute of Psychoanalysis News . Mitchell , J. ( in press b ) ... Transition : Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva , 2nd edn . London : Free Association Books . Gallop , J. ( 1982 ) Feminism ...
The Mourning of John Lennon

Elliott explores the complex, contradictory role of love in Lennon's life, with a particular focus on the themes of guilt and grief, sexuality and desire.
You're Stupid and Dumb, and You Don't Know Anything!

"You're Stupid and Dumb and You Don't Know Anything!" is the true story of Paul Johnston, a boy growing up in an abusive family. The story follows Paul from ages 3 to 14, and how his life was engulfed in his mother's betrayal.
The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization REVISED EDITION

This edition contains a substantial new Introduction in which Elliott and Lemert reply to some of the standard criticisms made of the theory of the new individualism, and also addresses the escalation of new individualist thinking in the ...
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 ...