Social in Question

Patrick joyce is Professor of History in the School of History and Classics at Manchester University

• 1. Patrick Joyce, Introduction Part 1: The Old Social: Histories of the Social 2. Catherine Pickstock The Mediaeval Origins of Civil Society 3. Mary Poovey, The Liberal Civil Subject and the Social in 18th Century British Moral Philosophy 4. Robert Wokler repatriating Modernity's Alleged Debt to the Enlightenment: French Revolutionary Social Science and the Genesis of the Nation State 5. Gyan Prakash The Colonial Genealogy of Society: Community and Political Modernity in Indonesia 6. Patrick Joyce Maps, Blood and the City: The Governance of the Social in 19th Century Britain Part 2: The New Social: Theory, Practice and Disciplines 7. Bruno Latour Gabriel Tarde and the End of the Social 8. Richard Biernacki and Jennifer Jordan The Place of Space in the Study of the Social 9.Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift the Spaces of Clock Times 10. Thomas Osborne History, Theory, Disciplinarity 11. John R. Hall Cultures of Inquiry, and the Rethinking of Disciplines