Key Contemporary Social Theorists

1. Theodor Adorno: Maggie O'Neill.

2. Jeffrey Alexander: Paul Colomy.

3. Louis Althusser: Ted Benton.

4. Hannah Arendt: Phillip Hansen.

5. Jean Baudrillard: Rex Butler.

6. Zygmunt Bauman: Ian Varcoe.

7. Ulrich Beck: Joost van Loon.

8. Daniel Bell: Malcolm Waters.

9. Jessica Benjamin: Kay Torney Souter.

10. Walter Benjamin: Howard Caygill.

11. Homi Bhabha: Bart Moore-Gilbert.

12. Maurice Blanchot: Kevin Hart.

13. Pierre Bourdieu: Don Miller.

14. Manuel Castells: Nick Stevenson.

15. Nancy Chodorow: Diane Tietjens Meyers.

16. Gilles Deleuze: Claire Colebrook.

17. Jacques Derrida: Roy Boyne.

18. Norbert Elias: Robert van Kriekan.

19. Michel Foucault: Gerard Delanty.

20. Hans-Georg Gadamer: David West.

21. Anthony Giddens: Anthony Elliott.

22. Erving Goffman: Yves Winkin.

23. Jürgen Habermas: William Outhwaite.

24. Stuart Hall: Michael Kenny.

25. Max Horkheimer: Larry Ray.

26. Luce Irigaray: Kwok Wei Leng.

27. Fredric Jameson: Andrew Milner.

28. Julia Kristeva: John Lechte.

29. Jacques Lacan: Stephen Frosh.

30. Claude Levi-Strauss: Zygmunt.

31. Niklas Luhman: Dieter Rucht.

32. Jean Francois Lyotard: James Williams.

33. Herbert Marcuse: Jem Thomas.

34. Claus Offe: John Dryzek.

35. Richard Rorty: Matthew Festenstein.

36. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Annamarie Jagose.

37. Alain Touraine: Kevin McDonald.

38. Bryan S Turner: Barry Smart.

39. Paul Virilio: Scott McQuire.

40. Raymond Williams: Andrew Milner.

41. Slavoj Zizek: Anthony Elliott.