About the author

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. About the author x
4. Preface and acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Debating modernity
7. ‘How to be modern’: theorising modernity 21
8. ‘Solid’ modernity and ‘liquid’ modernity 43
9. Modernity and capitalism 57
10. Modernity, neoliberalism, crisis 77
11. Theorists
12. Thinking with Antonio Gramsci 103
13. Thinking with Pierre Bourdieu 123
14. Thinking with Jürgen Habermas 153
15. Thinking with Michel Foucault 167
16. Thinking with Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser 189
17. Alternative directions? Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Italian Autonomist Marxism, Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello 205
18. Conclusion: looking for the ‘blue’ 231
19. References 237
20. Index 275