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∗ This volume is an outstanding collection of critical essays on Bourdieu′s work, it provides the best critical appraisal of Bourdieu which is currently available. ∗ The contributors are well known and well established authors. ∗ The volume also includes a new essay by Bourdieu in which he replies to his critics.

In this outstanding reinterpretation - and extension - of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches. Moving with ease from the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, to contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism, Calhoun breathes new life into Critical Social Theory, showing how it can learn from the past and contribute to the ...

Jurgen Habermas is among the most influential and important social theorists in the world today. This volume represents the first sustained engagement with Habermas′s recent turn to religion as a focus of philosophical inquiry.

New social movements of the post-war era have brought to prominence the idea that identity can be a crucial focus for political struggle. Linked to an increasing recognition that social theory itself must put the politics of identity on center stage, this volume impels social theorists not only to make sense of the "world out there, " but also to make sense of differences within the discourse of theory.