Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-232) and index.
The disciplinary positioning of theory -- The politics of grand narratives I : theorizing postmodernity -- The politics of grand narratives II : from Derrida to difference theory -- The critical theory of the Frankfurt School -- Feminist theory -- Cultural studies -- Critiques of critical social theory -- Critical social theory : applications and implications -- The 1960s at forty : renewing public sociology in the twenty-first century