Avenel companion to modern social theorists / edited by Pradip Basu

Includes index.

W.E.B. Du Bois : "the contradiction of double aims" - the Janus Syndrome / Ajanta Paul -- Syed Hussein Alatas : challenger of universalism : theorist of social change / Allan Lee -- Gilles Deleuze : anti-essentialism, transcendental empiricism, difference / Amrit Heer -- Roland Barthes : "I rarely lose sight of myself" - the semiological adventure / Anirban Bhattacharjee -- Abdul R. Jan Mohamed : minority discourse / Anupama Nayar -- Alain Badiou : Truth-ful politics of subtraction and genericity / Arka Chattopadhyay -- Dipesh Chakrabarty : 'locating a cozy prefecture between the self, alterity and transcendence' / Arnab Roy Chowdhury-- Pierre Bourdieu : 'cultural arbitrary' / Arya Aiyappan -- Helene Cixous : post structuralist feminism / Bonita Aleaz -- John Rawls : justice as fairness / Debasis Poddar -- Loius Pierre Althusser : ideology and ideological state apparatuses / Druv Jain -- Antonio Gramsci : social theory-hegemony, civil society / Esteve Morera -- Slavoj .i.ek : Marxism and political - ontology / Gregory C. Flemming -- Claude Ake : political economy of Africa / Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe -- Walter Benjamin : modernity, history and constellation / Jonathan Short -- Samir Amin : a context of living Marxism, transition, imperialism / Joshua Moufawad Paul Bill Ashcroft : cultural production of colonized and formerly colonized / Kaustav Bakshi -- Anthony Giddens : structuration, nation-state and war, modernity / Ketaki Dwivedi -- Rosa Luxemburg : dialectic of spontaneity and organisation – critique of bolshevism / Manoj Kumar -- Emile Durkheim : division of labour – suicide – religious life / Nasir Uddin -- Ferdinand de Sassure : structural linguistics / Ryan Liam O’Connor -- Carol Gilligan : her care ethics – a different approach / Sananda Sen -- Hannah Arendt : chaotic modernity and totalitarianism / Shrutarsi Das -- Simone de Beauvoir : from the shadow to the self / Sreemoyee Baneerjee -- Rabindra nath Tagore: the sentinel of the east / Subhalakshmi Pandey -- Ashis Nandy : tradition, modernity and the colonialized mind / Vineeth Mathoor