This course reviews some of the most important developments in contemporary sociological theory. It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; ...

Lacan and psychoanalysis -- Derrida and deconstruction -- Foucalt and the social sciences -- Some currents within post-structuralism -- Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: French feminist theories -- Lyotard ...

To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

This essay critiques classical anarchism using Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ressentiment’ and Michel Foucault’s ideas on power. While Newman caricatures 'classical anarchism' in his haste to define his own ...

In a paper for the International Journal of Cultural Studies, David Craig and Tanner Mirrlees present a Foucauldian analysis of the creator, arguing that greater terminological consistency will lead ...