Postmodernism is Not What You Think

Charles Lemert is Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He is the author of Durkeim's Ghosts (2006).

• Part I Disturbances; Chapter 1 Beasts, Frogs, Freaks, and Other Postmodern Things; Chapter 2 Postmodernism Is Not What You Think; Chapter 3 An Impossible Glossary of Social Reality; Part II Beginnings; Chapter 4 The Politics of Language: Rethinking Europe; Chapter 5 Structuralism’s Zero Signifier: Letters from Brazil; Chapter 6 The Uses of French Structuralisms: Reconsidering Vietnam; Part III Questions; Chapter 7 In the Imperial Silence, Will the Subaltern Ever Shut Up?; Chapter 8 On an Ironic Globe, What Does It Mean To Be Serious?; Chapter 9 If There Is a Global We, Might We All Be Dispossessed?;

Praise for the First Edition "Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious opposition of 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives." -Craig Calhoun, New York University "Charles Lemert is the preeminent social theorist in America today. Writing from a space that only he can occupy, Lemert shows the sociological community how to embrace and learn from this thing called postmodernism." -Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Charles Lemert invites imaginative cultural inquiry into both the discipline of sociology and the transdisciplinary practice of social theory in an era where global changes in politics, knowledge production, and technology make trust in reality itself open to discussion." -Stephen Pfohl, Boston College