Book Review: Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology
Jean-Francois Cote, Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology (Polity, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Issue 177, August 2023 – Reflections on the Pandemic
This special issue revisits the Thesis Eleven online project: Living and Thinking Crisis. The original project published close to fifty contributions; a multimedia presentation that included postcards, words, poems and music responding to the pandemic in the real-time of its making. This issue of the journal brings a selection of these to publication and reflects on this moment of global upheaval and transformation.
Issue 176, June 2023 – Archipelago of forms
Contributors: Virgilio Rivas, Jon Stratton, Chris Barker, Amos Netzer, Peter Beilharz, Stuart Macintyre, Keith Tribe, Andrew Feenberg, Ian H. Angus, Joshua M Makalintal, John Lechte and Dániel Havrancsik
Issue 175, April 2023 – Factor(ie)s of Theory
Contributors: Peter Lenco, Raffaela Puggioni, Mark T. Hewson, Will Atkinson, Bregham Dalgliesh, Kateřina Nedbálková and Wojciech Zomerski
Issue 174, February 2023 – Undetermined Social Theory: Futures, Presents, Pasts
Contributors: Peter Wagner, Frédéric Vandenberghe, Florence Chiew, Domonkos Sik, Nicholas Holm, Tyson E. Lewis, Todd Madigan, Brad West, Jon Piccini, Claire Colebrook and Brooke Wilmsen
Review Essay: Singular sociology? On the work of the German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz
Reviewed by Christine Magerski (University of Zagreb)
Issue 170, April 2022 – Including Special Section: Living in Crisis
This special section is the result of a online workshop called ‘Living in Crisis’ hosted by the TASA Social Theory thematic group and Thesis Eleven in 2020. Attendees were invited to think about the relationship between social theory and crisis in two ways. First, how can social theory be utilised to unpack what is happening in the world today? Second, do social theorists offer legitimate ways of understanding and responding to this crisis?
Book Review: Critical Theories and the Budapest School
Jonathan Pickle and John Rundell (eds.), Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, and Modernity (Routledge, 2018)
Reviewed by J.F. Dorahy
Book Review: At the Risk of Thinking
Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Reviewed by John Lechte, Macquarie University, Australia
Book Review: The End of Illusions
Andreas Reckwitz, The Society of Singularities (Polity 2020)
The End of Illusions (Polity 2021)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University
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