The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory provides a comprehensive and exciting introduction to the major developments, debates, and schools of thought in social theory today. It covers twentieth-century social theory stretching from critical theory, structuralism, and psychoanalysis, to feminism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. The book includes treatments not only of the traditional lines of orientation in social theory, but also of recent controversies the resurgence of interest in the self, self-identity, and subjectivity.