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This interdisciplinary book addresses the key questions posed by the postmodernist challenge: Is it possible to reflect and criticize in an age when every claim to truth is placed under suspicion? Are social critics contaminated by the same ideological distortions they identify in society?

The text reviews different responses to such dilemmas and thus examines ways to reconstruct social theory and critique following the postmodern attack on the traditional foundations of knowledge. Whether looking at political critique and praxis, feminist issues, ideology or teaching practices, the contributions are united by the need to ground a new theoretical and political position in the absence of the foundational certainties once provided by positivism and empiricism.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 The Postmodern Problematic
• Reconstructing Social Theory after the Postmodern Critique
• Evading the Subject
• The Poverty of Contingency Theory
• The Limits of Pure Critique
• Inscription and Horizon
• A Postmodern Civilizing Effect?
• Part 2 Ideology Critique and Cultural Studies
• Staying Dumb? Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern
• Teaching the Pedagogies
• A Dialectical Approach to an Ideological Dilemma
• Sod Baudrillard! Or Ideology Critique in Disney World
• The New Politics of the Workplace
• Ideology and Other Unobtrusive Controls
• For the Nation! How Street Gangs Problematize Patriotism
• 'Socialism of the Mind'
• The New Age of Post-Marxism

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Herbert W Simons is a professor of rhetoric and communication at Temple University, Philadelphia and Michael Billig is a professor of the social sciences at Loughborough University, England.