This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features, such as Reflection and Talk Boxes, to encourage classroom and workplace discussions.
Introduction;
Part One: Debating modernity;
`How to be modern': Theorising modernity
`Solid' Modernity & `Liquid' Modernity;
Modernity and Capitalism;
Modernity, neoliberalism, crisis;
Part Two: Theorists;
Thinking with Antonio Gramsci;
Thinking with Pierre Bourdieu;
Thinking with Jürgen Habermas;
Thinking with Michel Foucault;
Thinking with Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser;
Alternative Directions? Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Italian Autonomist Marxism, Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello;
Conclusion: Looking for the `blue'.
