Introduction
The Enlightenment and Beyond
Georg Hegel: Foundations of Modern Social Thought
Auguste Comte: The Origins of Modern European Sociology
Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest
Harriet Marineau: Feminist Sociologist
Karl Marx: Capitalism and Human Exploitation
Emile Durkheim: The Eclipse of Community
Max Weber: Reason and Bureaucracy
Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Civilization
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
Georg Simmel: Sociologists as Outsider
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Double Consciousness of Race
Antonio Gramsci: Critique of Hegemonic Capitalism
Adorno and Horkheimer: The Frankfurt School: Critical Theory
Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Civilization
Walter Benjamin: Art and Modernity
Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process
Simone de Beauvoir: Otherness
Hannah Arendt: Banality of Reason
Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology
Frantz Fanon: Race and Postcolonialism
Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault: Structuralism and Beyond: Poststructuralism
Talcott Parsons: The Systems Society
Erving Goffman: The Drama of the Self
Nancy Chodorow, Judith Butler, and Bell Hooks: Feminist Social Theory
Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, Zygmunt Bauman: Postmodernism
Jurgen Habermas: Communicative Action
Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus
Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory

ROGER A. SALERNO is Professor of Sociology at Pace University.

Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought-ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world-are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas.
A mixture of biographical and historical ideas, this book was written to introduce social theory to a broad audience. It looks at the intersection between the theorist as a social actor and as a reflection of his or her time. The volume's breadth makes it a useful tool for those interested in sociology and its many luminaries.