[ebooks] A Violent Embrace: Art and Aesthetics after Representation (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) by reneacute;e c. hoogland in Arts-Photography

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If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas; Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens; then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams; Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise; comprehensive overview of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory; and in so doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural research in the twenty-first century.This Handbook; edited by Anthony Elliott; develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before. Key social and cultural theories; ranging from classical approaches to postmodern; psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches; are drawn together and critically appraised. There are substantive chapters looking at ndash; among others ndash; structuralism and post-structuralism; critical theory; network analysis; feminist cultural thought; cultural theory and cultural sociology. Throughout the Handbook there is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity; with chapters drawing from research in sociology; cultural studies; psychology; politics; anthropology; womenrsquo;s studies; literature and history.Written in a clear and direct style; this Handbook will appeal to a wide undergraduate and postgraduate audience across the social sciences and humanities.