Lectures: Tuesdays 4-5 pm [Room RS 4] STARTS 30/9. Seminars: Monday mornings [Room 13.33] STARTS 6/10

School of Politics and International Studies READING LIST - PIED 3602 2008 sem 1 s Critical Contents: Page Module description/structure 1 Theory Recommended texts 2 Lecture & Seminar schedule 3 Seminar readings 4-5 Assessment 6 Supplementary reading list 7-15 Rules and procedures 16-17 Lectures: Tuesdays 4-5 pm [Room RS 4] STARTS 30/9 Seminars: Monday mornings [Room 13.33] STARTS 6/10 Voluntary Discussion Group: Wednesdays 2-3pm [Room SS 9.01] - STARTS 8/10 Office hours: Mondays 1-2pm [Room 13.33] Dr. Ricardo Blaug Office 13.33 ESS email: d.r.blaug@leeds.ac.uk Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 0

Module Description and Structure Critical Theory is a third level theory module. It has no pre-requisites, but it does require consistent work. Objectives: To introduce contemporary issues in Western social and political thought by looking at the seminal debate between Critical Theory (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas) and Postmodern theory (Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari). To examine their respective critiques of enlightenment and modernity. To inspect the relation of radical political theory to practice. To gather critical resources and explore political possibilities and obstacles. To sharpen intellectual skills and gain confidence in critical reasoning, accurate communication, textual and conceptual analysis. To encourage students to develop their own critical position. Assessment: Two essays of 3000 words, due mid-term and first day of exam period respectively. Each essay is worth 50% of the final grade. Syllabus: Structure: The course begins with an exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of Critical Theory as it developed from the Frankfurt School to Jürgen Habermas. Particular attention is paid to the critique of Enlightenment reason and its relation to a radical politics. Students then choose an area of practical concern to which Habermasian Critical Theory has been applied, and analyse it in an essay. The second section inspects the claim that we have moved into a period of Postmodernity, and concentrates on those theorists who have sought both to reject Enlightenment reason and to challenge the very nature of the political. Third, the acrimonious debate between Habermas and the Postmodernists is assessed and inspected for its political implications. Finally, theoretical advances in both modernist and postmodernist Critical Theory are used to explore the future of radical politics and participatory democracy. The literature of both camps offer rich seams of theory, giving students scope to explore individual interests in areas such as psychiatry, education, media, international politics, feminism and language. This is a course in radical political philosophy. It makes contemporary theory approachable, useful, personal and political. The weekly lecture on Tuesdays introduces a topic. Students then do the required reading on that topic and explore it further in the following Monday seminar. Attendance at Monday's seminar is compulsory. In addition, there is a weekly discussion group on Wednesdays between 2 and 3pm. Please note that attendance at the discussion group is entirely voluntary. For more details on attendance, please see the section 'Rules and Procedures' at the end of this module pack. Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 1

Recommended Texts You will need some way of getting primary material by Habermas and Foucault, as well as a range of secondary material on each. Most of these titles are available from the University Student Union Bookshop. [PRIMARY MATERIAL] W. Outhwaite (ed.), The Habermas Reader, Cambridge: Polity, 1996. [In library, also being reprinted, also in Student Union Bookshop.] P. Rabinow, (ed.) The Foucault Reader, London: Penguin Books, 1991. [In library and Student Union Bookshop]. Good overall introductions to the first and second parts of the module respectively are: D. Kellner, Critical Theory, Marxism and Modernity, Cambridge: Polity, 1989. S. Best, D. Kellner, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations, London: Penguin, 1991. Introductory texts that offer good introductions to Habermasian theory are: W. Outhwaite, Habermas: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge: Polity, 1994. D.M. Rasmussen, Reading Habermas, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. A. Brand, The Force of Reason, London: Allen & Unwin, 1990, pp. 1-64. J.G. Finlayson, Habermas: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: OUP, 2005. More challenging and more rewarding are: S.K. White, The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas, Cambridge: CUP, 1988. T.A. McCarthy, The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas, Boston: MIT Press, 1978. S.K. White, Political Theory and Postmodernism, Cambridge: CUP, 1991. Anthologies of secondary literature that cover issues pursued in this module are: F. Rush (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, Cambridge: CUP, 2004. D.M. Rasmussen (ed.), The Handbook of Critical Theory, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. P. Dews (ed.), Habermas: A Critical Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. D. Held, Introduction to Critical Theory, Oxford: Polity, 1980. Reference works are: A. Edgar, Habermas: The Key Concepts, London: Routledge, 2006. D. Macey, The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory, London: Penguin, 2000. The sheer number of theorists we look at in this module is such that it is also helpful to buy a decent dictionary of ideas, or of political thought, philosophy, or the history of ideas. You might also use the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online at www.rep.routledge.com and the excellent, indeed life-saving, Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory. Also helpful is the open-source collaborative encyclopedia at www.wikipedia.org. A time-tested dictionary of the history of ideas is now available at http://etext.virginia.edu/dichist/dict.html. If you find any good sites, do let other students and the lecturer know. Liberal use should also be made of the Dear Habermas site at www.habermas.org. Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 2

Lecture and Seminar Schedule Lecture: [Tues. 30 th. Sept.] Introduction: reason, radicalism, relativism Seminar week 2: [Mon. 6 th. Oct.] The Problem of Justification Lecture: [Tues. 7 th. Oct.] The Frankfurt School Discussion Group [Wed. 8 h. Oct.] Seminar 3: [Mon. 13 th. Oct.] The Critique of Reason Lecture: [Tues. 14 th. Oct.] The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas Discussion Group [Wed. 15 th. Oct.] Seminar 4: [Mon. 20 th. Oct.] Exploring Habermasian Theory Lecture: [Tues. 21 st. Oct.] Critical Theory and its Practices (i) Discussion Group [Wed. 22 nd. Oct.] Seminar 5: [Mon. 27 th. Oct.] Applying Habermasian Theory Lecture: [Tues. 28 th. Oct.] Critical Theory and its Practices (ii) Discussion Group [Wed. 29 th. Oct.] Seminar 6: [Mon. 3 rd. Nov.] Essay Preparation Critical Practice? NO LECTURE: [Tues. 4 th. Nov.] Discussion Group [Wed. 5 th. Nov.] FIRST ESSAY DUE: 10 th. Nov. 2008 NO SEMINAR 7: [Mon. 10 th. Nov.] March, 2006 Lecture: [Tues. 11 th. Nov.] A Transition to Postmodernity? Discussion Group [Wed. 12 th. Nov.] Seminar 8: [Mon. 17 th. Nov.] Feedback on Essays Lecture: [Tues.18 th. Nov.] Postmodern Questions Discussion Group [Wed. 19 th. Nov.] Seminar 9: [Mon. 24 th. Nov.] Exploring Postmodernism Lecture: [Tues. 25 th. Nov.] Critical Theory and its Practices (iii) Discussion Group [Wed. 26 th. Nov.] Seminar 10: [Mon. 1 st. Dec.] Postmodern Politics and Critique Lecture: [Tues. 2 nd. Dec.] Accusations and Counter-Accusations Discussion Group [Wed. 3 rd. Dec.] Seminar 11: [Mon. 8 th. Dec.] Focusing the Debate Lecture: [Tues. 9 th. Dec.] The Organisation of Resistance Discussion Group [Wed. 10 th. Dec.] SECOND ESSAY DUE: 12 th. Jan. 2009 Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 3

Required Reading for Seminars Seminar Week 2: [Monday, 6 th. Oct.] The Problem of Justification Required Reading: Bring definitions of The Enlightenment ; normative ; relativism and universalism from a dictionary or website. Discussion: Do we have, or need, normative grounds for social criticism? Seminar 3: [Monday, 13 th. Oct.] The Critique of Reason Required Reading: Horkheimer & Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, pp. 3-42. Discussion: What's wrong with Enlightenment reason? Is the DofE a usable critique? Seminar 4: [Monday, 20 th. Oct.] Exploring Habermasian Theory Required Reading: Discussion: Task: W. Outhwaite,(ed.), The Habermas Reader. pp. 28-40; 160-168; 180-191; 248-264. Rehearsing Habermasian arguments and concepts. Students take list of applications. Seminar 5: [Monday, 27 th. Oct.] Applying Habermasian Theory Required Reading: W. Outhwaite, (ed.), The Habermas Reader, pp. 278-303. R. Blaug, "Habermas' Treatment for Relativism," Politics, Vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 1-22. Discussion: Task: What use is critical theory? Students select one application from list to read for next week. Seminar 6: [Monday, 3 rd. Nov.] Essay Preparation Critical Practice? Required Reading: Task: Your chosen article applying Habermasian theory to practice. Working in pairs on chosen applications of Habermasian theory. FIRST ESSAY DUE: 10 th. November, 2008 Seminar 7: [Monday, 10 th. Nov.] NO SEMINAR Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 4

Seminar 8: [Monday, 17 th. Nov.] Feedback on Essays Required Reading: None Seminar 9: [Monday, 24 th. Nov.] Exploring Postmodernism Required Reading: M. Foucault, The Foucault Reader, pp. 141-166. M. Foucault, "Two Lectures," in Power/Knowledge, pp. 78-108. Discussion: Clarifying issues around power and knowledge. Seminar 10: [Monday, 1 st. Dec.] Postmodern Politics and Critique Required Reading: Best & Kellner, Postmodern Theory, ch. 6. AND EITHER C. Mouffe, "Radical Democracy: Modern or Postmodern? in Universal Abandon, pp. 31-45, OR N. Fraser, L. Nicholson, "Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism," in Universal Abandon, pp. 83-104, OR Deleuze & Guattari, 1000 Plateaux, pp. 351-404; 416-423. Discussion: Clarifying the differences between critical theories. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the postmodern approach? Seminar 11: [Monday, 8 th. Dec.] Focusing the Debate Required Reading: J. Habermas, "Modernity Versus Postmodernity," New German Critique, pp. 3-14, Best & Kellner, Postmodern Theory, ch. 7. Discussion: Rehearsing the arguments and counter-arguments. SECOND PAPER DUE: 12 th. January, 2009 Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 5

Assessment Both essays should be 3000 words long, typed, double-spaced, single-stapled and please number your pages, as this assists feedback. You should give page number references for quotes and a full bibliography. Each essay constitutes 50% of final grade. Please check Rules and Procedures at the end of this pack for more details on assessed essays, particularly on how to hand your work into the office. FIRST ESSAY FIRST ESSAY DUE: 10 th. November, 2008 Having chosen an article from the list of 'Applications of Habermas,' please write your first essay using the following title: "Applying Habermas: A Critical Assessment of {your chosen application}." Possible Essay Plan: Open with the importance of applying critical theory to social problems State your central argument and the plan by which you will deliver it Briefly outline Habermas's intellectual project Clarify Habermasian concepts used in your chosen application Describe and assess your chosen application What did this application reveal about the social problem it examined? What did this application reveal about Habermas's theoretical project? SECOND ESSAY SECOND ESSAY DUE: 12 th. January, 2009 Please write your second essay on one of the following titles: 1. What theoretical problems arise for those who claim the West has entered an age of postmodernity? 2. How might Foucault s analysis of power inform a radical politics? 3. Describe and assess (Deleuzian) nomadic organisational forms and their relevance to contemporary politics. 4. Must there be a normative basis for social criticism? 5. Why does Habermas accuse postmodern theorists of crypto-normativism, performative contradiction and/or conservativism? (i.e. all three or focus on just one) 6. Is modernity doomed? Discuss with reference to both French and German critical theory. 7. Critically assess a selected case-study article in which postmodern theory is applied to a current social problem (please see seminar leader with your suggestion and make sure you state your chosen area of application at the beginning of your essay) Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 6

The Problem of Justification: Supplementary Reading List K. Baynes, "Rational Reconstruction and Social Criticism: Habermas's Model of Interpretive Social Science," The Philosophical Forum, Vol. 21, no. 1/2, 1989, pp. 122-145. K. Baynes, The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. R.J. Bernstein, The New Constellation, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991. H.L. Fairlamb, Critical Conditions: Postmodernism and the Question of Foundations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. B. Fay, Social Theory and Political Practice, London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. A. Ferrara, "Universalisms: Procedural, Contextual and Prudential," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 14, no. 3/4, 1989, pp. 243-269. M. Kelly, "MacIntyre, Habermas, and Philosophical Ethics," in Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in Ethics and Politics, M. Kelly (ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990, pp. 70-93. S.K. White, "The Normative Basis of Critical Theory," Polity, Vol. 16, 1983, pp. 150-164. The Frankfurt School S. Benhabib, Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. S. Benhabib, "Modernity and the Aporias of Critical Theory," Telos, Vol. 49, 1981, pp. 39-59. Benjamin, W. & Adorno, T. The Complete Correspondence 1928-1940, Cambridge: Polity, 2003. R. Geuss, The Idea of a Critical Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1981. P.U. Hohendahl, "The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited: Habermas' Critique of the Frankfurt School," New German M. Horkheimer, Critical Theory: Selected Essays, New York: Herder and Herder, 1972. M. Horkheimer, T. Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, New York: Seabury Press, 1972. M. Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason, New York: Continuum, 1947. M. Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, Boston: Little Brown, 1973. D. Kellner, Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis in Marxism, London: Macmillan, 1984. T. Adorno, History and Freedom, Cambridge: Polity, 2005. H. Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, Toronto: Beacon Press, 1966. H. Marcuse, Negations: Essays in Critical Theory, London: Free Association Books, 1988. H. Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, New York: Vintage, 1962. S. Muller-Doohm, Adorno: An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge: Polity, 2005. Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 7

J.T. Nealon (ed.), Rethinking the Frankfurt School, Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. Critique, Vol. 35, 1985, pp. 3-26. F. Rush ed., The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. M. Schoolman, Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy and Aesthetic Individuality, New York: Routledge, 2001. G. Therborn, "Critical Theory and the Legacy of Twentieth-Century Marxism," in B.S. Turner (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996, pp. 53-82. G. Therborn, "The Frankfurt School," New Left Review, Vol. 63, 1970, pp. 65-96. R. Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories and Political Significance, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994. R. Wolin, The Frankfurt School Revisited, London Routledge, 2006. Habermas S. Benhabib, F. Dallmayr, (eds.) The Communicative Ethics Controversy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. S. Benhabib, "The Methodological Illusions of Modern Political Theory: The Case of Rawls and Habermas," Neue Hefte fur Philosophie, Vol. 21, 1982, pp. 47-74. R.J. Bernstein, (ed.) Habermas and Modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985. J.M. Bernstein, Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory, London: Routledge, 1995. R. Blaug, "Habermas' Treatment for Relativism," Politics, Vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 1-22. J. Braaten, Habermas s Critical Theory of Society, Albany: SUNY Press, 1991. A. Brand, The Force of Reason, London: Allen & Unwin, 1990, pp. 1-64. S. Chambers, Reasonable Democracy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. N. Crossley, & J.M. Roberts, (Ed.) After Habermas, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. P. Dews, (ed.) Habermas: A Critical Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. P. Dews, (ed.) Habermas, Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas, London: Verso, 1986. J.G. Finlayson, Habermas: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. K. Günther, The Sense of Appropriateness: Application Discourses in Morality and Law, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. J. Habermas, "A Philosophico-Political Profile," New Left Review, Vol. 151, 1985, pp. 75-105. J. Habermas, 'Hannah Arendt's Communications Concept of Power', Social Research, Spring, 1977, pp. 3-24. J. Habermas, Hannah Arendt s Communications Concept of Power in S.Lukes ed. Power, New York: New York University Press, 1986. Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 8

J. Habermas, "The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article," New German Critique, Vol. 3, 1974, pp. 49-55. J. Habermas, "Towards a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism," Theory and Society, Vol. 2, 1975, pp. 287-300. J. Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990. J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1, Cambridge, MA: Beacon Press, 1984. J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 2, Cambridge, MA: Beacon Press, 1987. J. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. J. Habermas, Time of Transitions, Cambridge: Polity, 2005. J. Habermas, The Future of Human Nature, Oxford: Polity, 2002. J. Habermas, Truth and Justification, Cambridge: Polity, 2003. R.C. Holub, Jürgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere, London: Routledge, 1991. A. Honneth, Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas s The Theory of Communicative Action, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1991. M.B. Matustik, Jürgen Habermas, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. T.A. McCarthy, The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas, Boston: MIT Press, 1978. W. Outhwaite, Habermas: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994. O.A. Payrow Shabani, Democracy, Power and Legitimacy: The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas, Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2003. A. Pinter, Public Sphere and History: Historians Response to Habermas on the Worth of the Past, Journal of Communication Inquiry 28:3 (July 2004): 217-232. D.M. Rasmussen, Handbook of Critical Theory, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. D.M. Rasmussen, Reading Habermas, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. W. Rehg, "Discourse and the Moral Point of View: Deriving a Dialogic Principle of Universalization," Inquiry, 34, 1991, pp. 27-48. J.B. Thompson, D. Held, (eds.) Habermas: Critical Debates, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. S.K. White, The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. S.K. White (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Habermasian politics and social criticism [Also see the handout "Areas of Application of Critical Theory" for further references.] N. Adams, Habermas and Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. K. Baynes, R. von Schomberg, eds., Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas s Between Facts and Norms, Albany: State University of New York Press, c2002. Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 9

S. Benhabib, Situating the Self, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. R. Blaug, "Between Fear and Disappointment: Critical, Empirical and Political Uses of Habermas," Political Studies, 45/1, 1997, pp. 100-117. R. Blaug, "The Distortion of the Face to Face: Communicative Reason and Social Work Practice," British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 25, no. 4, 1995, pp. 423-439. R. Blaug, "New Theories of Discursive Democracy: A User's Guide," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 22, no. 1, 1996, pp. 49-80. R. Blaug, "New Developments in Deliberative Democracy," Politics, 16/2, 1996, pp. 71-77. R. Blaug, Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. C. Calhoun, "Social Theory and the Public Sphere," in B.S. Turner (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996, pp. 429-470. C. Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. J.S. Dryzek, Democracy in Capitalist Times: Idea, Limits, and Struggles, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. J.S. Dryzek, Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, and Political Science, Cambridge: CUP, 1990. J. Forester, (ed.) Critical Theory and Public Life, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. N. Fraser, "What's Critical About Critical Theory? The case of Habermas and Gender," New German Critique, Vol. 35, 1985, pp. 97-131; also in Unruly Practices, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989. C. Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. L. Goode, Habermas: Democracy and the Public Sphere, Pluto Press, 2005. J. Habermas, "Three Models of Democracy," Constellations, Vol. 1/1, 1994, pp. 1-10. J. Habermas, "New Social Movements," Telos, Vol. 49, 1981, pp. 33-37. J. Habermas, "The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies," in The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate, S.W. Nicholson (ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989, pp. 48-70. R. Howard, "A Politics in Search of the Political," Theory and Society, Vol. 1, 1974: 271-306. A. Linklater, Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. J. Meehan (ed.), Feminists Read Habermas: Gendering the Subject of Discourse, London: Routledge, 1995. A. Phillips, "Dealing With Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence?," Constellations, Vol. 1, no. 1, 1994, pp. 74-91. L.J. Ray, Rethinking Critical Theory: Emancipation in the Age of Global Social Movements, London: Sage, 1993, pp. xii-xxi J.J. Rodger, "On the Degeneration of the Public Sphere," Political Studies, Vol. 33, 1985, pp. 203-217. Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 10

J.F. Sitton, Habermas and Contemporary Society, Houndmills: Macmillan, 2003. B. Walker, "Habermas and Pluralist Political Theory," Philosophy and Social Criticism, 18, 1992, pp. 81-102. M. Waller, S. Marcos, Dialogue and Difference, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. M.R. Welton, (ed.) In Defense of the Lifeworld: Critical Perspectives on Adult Learning, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. J. Whitebook, Perversion and Utopia: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. R.E. Young, A Critical Theory of Education: Habermas and our Children's Future, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989. Postmodernity P. Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, London: Verso, 1998. Z. Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity, London: Routledge, 1992. Z. Bauman, Modernity and Ambivalence, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991. Z. Bauman, Liquid Modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. H. Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern: A History, London: Routledge, 1995. S. Best, D. Kellner, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations, London: Macmillan, 1991. S.E. Bronner, Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists, London: Routledge, 2002. L. Cahoone, (ed.) From Modernism to Postmodernism, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. T. Carver, J. Martin, (eds.) Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. W. Connolly, Political Theory and Modernity, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. T. Dant, Critical Social Theory, London: Sage, 2003. P. Dews, "The Limits of Disenchantment," New Left Review, Sept./Oct., 1995, pp. 61-75. D. Harris, Teaching Yourself Social Theory, London: Sage, 2003. D. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. A. Huyssens, "Mapping the Postmodern," New German Critique, 33, 1984, pp. 5-52. F. Jameson, "The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in the Postmodernism Debate," in D. Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory, London: Longman, 1991. F. Jameson, "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," New Left Review, Vol. 146, 1984, pp. 53-92. J.F. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. D. Latimer, "Jameson and Post-Modernism," New Left Review, Vol. 148, 1984, pp. 116-128. D. Lyon, Postmodernity, Second Edition: Open University Press, 1999. Ricardo Blaug, 2008/9 Page 11

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