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Theorizing Our Anxious Age

Theorists of Late Modernity

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What Is Late Modernity? … 441

From Modernism to Late Modernity: The Social Theories

of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu … 447

Structuration Theory of Anthony Giddens … 448

The Structuration Theory of Pierre Bourdieu … 459

Key Concepts in Bourdieu’s Structuration Theory … 461

Zygmunt Bauman and the Tragic Sense of Life … 465

Slavoj Žižek, the Jocular Iconoclast … 474

Žižek’s Politics … 482

Alain Badiou: The Armchair Revolutionary … 492

Controversial Conclusions … 495

References … 501

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Tony Simmons

Tony Simmons teaches sociology at Athabasca University. He is the author of Revitalizing the Classics: What Past Social Theorists Can Teach Us Today and co-author of Reading Organizational Theory: A Critical Approach to the Study of Organizational Behaviour and Structure.