Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His most recent publication is Critical Theory and Social Transformation (2020) and, as editor, Pandemics, Society and Politics (2021).Stephen P. Turner is currently Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, USA. His books include Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (2003) and essays collected in The Politics of Expertise (2013). He has also written extensively on Max Weber, especially on politics, on Carl Schmitt, and on the politics of science and science policy.

• Introduction PART 1: LIVING TRADITIONS 1. Foucault and the Promise of Power without Dogma 2. Pierre Bourdieu and His Legacy 3. Lacanian Theory: Ideology, Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism 4. The Marxist Legacy 5. Critical Race Theory 6. Feminist Social and Political Theory 7. Accidental Conditions: The Social Consequences of Poststructuralist Philosophy 8. Critical Theory Today: Legacies and New Directions 9. Pragmatism and Political Theory 10. Lessons from Twentieth Century Political Philosophy before Rawls 11. Liberalism after Communitarianism 12. Republicanism: Non-domination and the Free State 13. Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of European Democracy 14. A Journey Through Latin American Social and Political Thought 15. Intellectuals and Society: Sociological and Historical Perspectives 16. Power and Violence in the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt PART 2: NEW AND EMERGING FRAMEWORKS 17. Anarchist Social and Political Theory 18. Deleuze, Guattari, and the Concept of Social Assemblage 19. Critical Realism 20. Power, Legitimacy and Authority 21. Environment and Risk 22. Modernity in Social and Political Theory: Correcting Misunderstandings 23. Social and Political Trust 24. From Linguistic Performativity to Social Performance 25. Nationalism and Social Theory: The Distinction between Community and Society 26. Empire and Imperialism 27. Cosmopolitanism: Roots and Diversities 28. From Friction to Fruition: Social Theory Meets Postcolonial Studies 29. Nature and Society 30. The Cognitive and Metacognitive Dimensions of Social and Political Theory 31. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Theory and Practice of Social and Political Inquiry 32. Humanism, Anti-humanism, Posthumanism 33. Contemporary Chinese Social and Political Thought PART 3: NEW PROBLEMS 34. Sovereignty, Security and the Exception: Bare Life in a Pandemic Time 35. The Future of the State 36. Modern Constitutionalism under Challenge 37. Social Theory and European Integration 38. The Limits of Power and the Complexity of Powerlessness: The Case of Immigration 39. Transnational Activisms and the Global Justice Movement 40. The Transnational Social Question 41. Social Suffering and the New Politics of Sentimentality 42. Memory Practices and Theory in a Global Age 43. The Gift Paradigm 44. Postcapitalism: The Return of Radical Critique 45. Populism: The Concept and the Polemic 46. New Materialism(s) 47. Political Theology 48. Theories of Violence 49. Universalism, Human Rights and Islamic Relativism 50. Animals in Social and Political Theory

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His most recent publication is Critical Theory and Social Transformation (2020) and, as editor, Pandemics, Society and Politics (2021).Stephen P. Turner is currently Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, USA. His books include Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (2003) and essays collected in The Politics of Expertise (2013). He has also written extensively on Max Weber, especially on politics, on Carl Schmitt, and on the politics of science and science policy.

• Introduction PART 1: LIVING TRADITIONS 1. Foucault and the Promise of Power without Dogma 2. Pierre Bourdieu and His Legacy 3. Lacanian Theory: Ideology, Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism 4. The Marxist Legacy 5. Critical Race Theory 6. Feminist Social and Political Theory 7. Accidental Conditions: The Social Consequences of Poststructuralist Philosophy 8. Critical Theory Today: Legacies and New Directions 9. Pragmatism and Political Theory 10. Lessons from Twentieth Century Political Philosophy before Rawls 11. Liberalism after Communitarianism 12. Republicanism: Non-domination and the Free State 13. Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of European Democracy 14. A Journey Through Latin American Social and Political Thought 15. Intellectuals and Society: Sociological and Historical Perspectives 16. Power and Violence in the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt PART 2: NEW AND EMERGING FRAMEWORKS 17. Anarchist Social and Political Theory 18. Deleuze, Guattari, and the Concept of Social Assemblage 19. Critical Realism 20. Power, Legitimacy and Authority 21. Environment and Risk 22. Modernity in Social and Political Theory: Correcting Misunderstandings 23. Social and Political Trust 24. From Linguistic Performativity to Social Performance 25. Nationalism and Social Theory: The Distinction between Community and Society 26. Empire and Imperialism 27. Cosmopolitanism: Roots and Diversities 28. From Friction to Fruition: Social Theory Meets Postcolonial Studies 29. Nature and Society 30. The Cognitive and Metacognitive Dimensions of Social and Political Theory 31. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Theory and Practice of Social and Political Inquiry 32. Humanism, Anti-humanism, Posthumanism 33. Contemporary Chinese Social and Political Thought PART 3: NEW PROBLEMS 34. Sovereignty, Security and the Exception: Bare Life in a Pandemic Time 35. The Future of the State 36. Modern Constitutionalism under Challenge 37. Social Theory and European Integration 38. The Limits of Power and the Complexity of Powerlessness: The Case of Immigration 39. Transnational Activisms and the Global Justice Movement 40. The Transnational Social Question 41. Social Suffering and the New Politics of Sentimentality 42. Memory Practices and Theory in a Global Age 43. The Gift Paradigm 44. Postcapitalism: The Return of Radical Critique 45. Populism: The Concept and the Polemic 46. New Materialism(s) 47. Political Theology 48. Theories of Violence 49. Universalism, Human Rights and Islamic Relativism 50. Animals in Social and Political Theory

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His most recent publication is Critical Theory and Social Transformation (2020) and, as editor, Pandemics, Society and Politics (2021).Stephen P. Turner is currently Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, USA. His books include Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (2003) and essays collected in The Politics of Expertise (2013). He has also written extensively on Max Weber, especially on politics, on Carl Schmitt, and on the politics of science and science policy.

• Introduction PART 1: LIVING TRADITIONS 1. Foucault and the Promise of Power without Dogma 2. Pierre Bourdieu and His Legacy 3. Lacanian Theory: Ideology, Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism 4. The Marxist Legacy 5. Critical Race Theory 6. Feminist Social and Political Theory 7. Accidental Conditions: The Social Consequences of Poststructuralist Philosophy 8. Critical Theory Today: Legacies and New Directions 9. Pragmatism and Political Theory 10. Lessons from Twentieth Century Political Philosophy before Rawls 11. Liberalism after Communitarianism 12. Republicanism: Non-domination and the Free State 13. Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of European Democracy 14. A Journey Through Latin American Social and Political Thought 15. Intellectuals and Society: Sociological and Historical Perspectives 16. Power and Violence in the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt PART 2: NEW AND EMERGING FRAMEWORKS 17. Anarchist Social and Political Theory 18. Deleuze, Guattari, and the Concept of Social Assemblage 19. Critical Realism 20. Power, Legitimacy and Authority 21. Environment and Risk 22. Modernity in Social and Political Theory: Correcting Misunderstandings 23. Social and Political Trust 24. From Linguistic Performativity to Social Performance 25. Nationalism and Social Theory: The Distinction between Community and Society 26. Empire and Imperialism 27. Cosmopolitanism: Roots and Diversities 28. From Friction to Fruition: Social Theory Meets Postcolonial Studies 29. Nature and Society 30. The Cognitive and Metacognitive Dimensions of Social and Political Theory 31. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Theory and Practice of Social and Political Inquiry 32. Humanism, Anti-humanism, Posthumanism 33. Contemporary Chinese Social and Political Thought PART 3: NEW PROBLEMS 34. Sovereignty, Security and the Exception: Bare Life in a Pandemic Time 35. The Future of the State 36. Modern Constitutionalism under Challenge 37. Social Theory and European Integration 38. The Limits of Power and the Complexity of Powerlessness: The Case of Immigration 39. Transnational Activisms and the Global Justice Movement 40. The Transnational Social Question 41. Social Suffering and the New Politics of Sentimentality 42. Memory Practices and Theory in a Global Age 43. The Gift Paradigm 44. Postcapitalism: The Return of Radical Critique 45. Populism: The Concept and the Polemic 46. New Materialism(s) 47. Political Theology 48. Theories of Violence 49. Universalism, Human Rights and Islamic Relativism 50. Animals in Social and Political Theory