ABSTRACT

This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars, it develops new conceptions of social critique, new techniques of interpretive analysis, and new concepts for the sociology of democratic practice. It is a volume for the twenty-first-century, where global and local meet, when critical theory must examine its most fundamental presuppositions.

chapter |46 pages

Beyond the Politics of Denunciation

Cultural Sociology as the "Sociology for the Meantime"

chapter |28 pages

From Mass to Public

Rethinking the Value of the Culture Industry

chapter |34 pages

The Healing of Wounds

Forgiveness as a Cultural Practice

chapter |8 pages

The Social Structure of Denial

A Formal Sociological Analysis of Conspiracies of Silence