• First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work
• Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformations
• Distills the central ideas in Castells work into an accessible and concise introduction for undergraduate students
• Explores Castells writings on the network society, informational capitalism and democracy in crisis
• Provides a critical analysis of Castells thought in relation to ongoing debates about globalization

Offering a critique of Spivak's work, this book demonstrates her engagements with noted thinkers, feminists and literary texts. It interrogates the materialist basis of Spivak's thought, and demonstrates the ethical and political commitment which lies at the heart of her work.

Donald Davidson is unquestionably one of America's greatest living philosophers. His influence on Anglo-American philosophy over the last twenty years has been enormous, and his work is an unavoidable reference point in current debates in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. This book offers a systematic and accessible introduction to Davidson's work. Evnine begins by discussing Davidson's contribution to the philosophy of mind, including his views on action, events and causation. He then examines Davidson's work in the philosophy of language. The link between meaning and...

This book is the first full-length study of Certeau's thought, designed as a guide to draw out not only the exceptional range but the overall coherence of his oeuvre. The author focuses on those intertexts that work most powerfully in Certeau's major writings: contemporary French historiography, the writings of early modern mystics and travelers, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, Freud, the linguistics of -utterance,- and a broad spectrum of work on contemporary cultural practices.

This is a study of Nozick's work and the debates to which it has given rise. It locates Nozick's work in the complex of current philosophical and political debates, and explores the influences on his work. It then proceeds to a more detailed analysis of Anarchy, State and Utopia, concentrating on Nozick's doctrine of rights, the minimal role he assigns to the state and his theory of justice. The book argues that many of the libertarian theories put forward by Nozick lack a convincing justification.

This text examines all Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. The author examines the way in which the latter relate to his previous theories of power and the body. She also assesses the normative and political implications of his social criticism.

Theodor Adorno is widely acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers. The extraordinary range of his work is matched by the distinctiveness of his central intellectual preoccupations.


This new introduction offers a comprehensive and accessible account of Adorno's work. Jarvis discusses the intellectual and institutional contexts for Adorno's thought and, in a broad-ranging study, examines his contributions to social theory, cultural theory, aesthetics and philosophy. He shows how a re-examination of Adorno's work from the perspective of...

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century. This introduction presents the concepts at the centre of Levinas's thought - alterity, the other, the face, infinity - concepts which have previously presented readers with major problems of interpretaton.

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the work of Fredric Jameson, one of the most important cultural critics writing today. Homer provides a clear exposition and appraisal of Jameson's theories and an assessment of his contribution to contemporary cultural theory.