Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory Book

	Introduction : social theory in Europe today
1	Founders, classics, and canons in the formation of social theory	3
2	Social theory and the social sciences	14
3	Social theory and political philosophy	25
4	Social theory and theology	37
5	Contemporary German social theory	51
6	The age of epigones : post-Bourdieusian social theory in France	69
7	The peculiarities of the British : social theory in the United Kingdom	82
8	Everything changes and nothing changes : change, culture and identity in contemporary Italian social theory	95
9	Contemporary Spanish social theory	108
10	Nordic social theory : between social philosophy and grounded theory	123
11	Contemporary East Central European social theory	138
12	Contemporary Russian social theory	153
13	How to criticize? : convergent and divergent paths in critical theories of society	171
14	After dialectics : postmodernity, post-Marxism, and other posts and positions	185
15	Hermeneutics, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology	203
16	Contemporary European cognitive social theory	218
17	Civilizational analysis, social theory and comparative history	230
18	Cosmopolitanism : a social science research agenda	242
19	European master narratives about freedom	257
20	Modernity and the escape from Eurocentrism	266
21	European transformations	279
22	The politics of commemoration : the Holocaust, memory and trauma	289
23	Cultural identities	298
24	Nations, belonging and community	310
25	Theorizing the European city	323
26	Making sense of the public sphere	333
27	Nature, embodiment and social theory	347
28	Euros to America : the disciplining, deconstruction and diaspora of American social theory	361
29	Encounters between European and Asian social theory	372
30	Social theory, 'Latin' America and modernity	381
	Epilogue : Asia in European sociology	395