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Contradictions Series

Series editor: Craig Calhoun, New York University

The modern era has been uniquely productive of theory. Some theory claimed uniformity despite human differences or unilinear progress in the face of catastrophic changes. Other theory was informed more deeply by the complexities of history and recognition of cultural specificity. This series publishes books that explore the problems of theorizing the modern in its manifold and sometimes contradictory forms and that examine the specific locations of theory within the modern.

Books in the series:

Tariq Modood
Multicultural Politics
Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain
volume 22 | 2005

Fuyuki Kurasawa
The Ethnological Imagination
A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity
volume 21 | 2004

Lawrence Peter King and Iván Szelényi
Theories of the New Class
Intellectuals and Power
volume 20 | 2004

Pier Carlo Bontempelli
Knowledge, Power, and Discipline
German Studies and National Identity
volume 19 | 2003

Elizabeth Jelin
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
volume 18 | 2003

Gil Eyal
The Origins of Postcommunist Elites
From Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia
volume 17 | 2003

Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg, editors
Foucault and Heidegger
Critical Encounters
volume 16 | 2003

Michael D. Kennedy
Cultural Formations of Postcommunism
Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War
volume15 | 2002

Michèle H. Richman
Sacred Revolutions
Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie
volume 14 | 2002

Pierre-Andre Taguieff
The Force of Prejudice
On Racism and Its Doubles
volume 13 | 2001

Krishan Kumar
1989
Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals
volume 12 | 2001

Timothy Mitchell
Questions of Modernity

volume 11 | 2000

Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, editors
Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System
volume 10 | 1999

Francois Dosse
History of Structuralism, volume 2

The Sign Sets: 1967-Present
volume 9 | 1998

Francois Dosse
History of Structuralism, volume 1

The Rising Sign: 1945-1966
volume 8 | 1998

Patricia Hill Collins
Fighting Words
Black Women and the Search for Justice
volume 7 | 1998

Craig Calhoun and John McGowan, editors
Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics
volume 6 | 1997

Gérard Noiriel
The French Melting Pot
Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity
volume 5 | OUT OF PRINT

John C. Torpey
Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent
The East German Opposition and Its Legacy
volume 4 | 1995

T. M. S. Evens
Two Kinds of Rationality
Kibbutz, Democracy and Generational Conflict
volume 3 | OUT OF PRINT

Micheline R. Ishay
Internationalism and Its Betrayal
volume 2 | OUT OF PRINT

Johan Heilbron
The Rise of Social Theory
volume 1 | 1995