Social Theory/ a reader Joseph, Jonathan [ed.]

Introduction 1
Part 1 Marx and Engels: Conflict and Dissent
Introduction 7
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy 14
Karl Marx
From 'The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret' 19
Jiarl Marx
From 'The Communist Manifesto' 25
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
From The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 36
Karl Marx
From Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts 41
Karl Marx
Recent Theories of the Capitalist State 50
Bob Jessop
Part 2 Gramsci: Theorist of Hegemony
Introduction ^ 63
The Modern Prince: Brief Notes on Machiavelii's • i
Politics 69
Antonio Gramsci
The Modern Prince: Analysis of Situations.
Relations of Force 76
Antonio Gramsci
From 'State and Civil Society' 83
Antonio Gramsci
The Intellectuals 89
Antonio Gramsci
From 'Americanism and Fordism' 95
Antonio Gramsci
Part 3 Durkheim and Functionalism
Introduction 103
From The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life ' 110
Emile Durkheim
From The Division of Labour in Society 116
Emile Durkheim
From Suicide 131
Emile Durkheim
Part 4 Weber and Rationalism
Introduction 139
From 'Politics as a Vocation' 146
Max Weber
From 'Bureaucracy' 132
Max Weber
Class, Status, Party 165
Max Weber
Without Regard for Persons 178
Derek Sayer
Part 5 Culture and Communication in the
Frankfurt School
193 Introduction
From 'The Concept of Enlightenment' 201
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkhehner
From 'The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as
Mass Deception'
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkhehner
From 'The New Forms of Control' ^20
Herbert Marcuse
Extracts from The Theory of Communicative
Action, vol. 2
Jiirgen Habermas
212
Part 6 Foucault: Discourse, Power and
Regulation
Introduction 245
From 'The Carceral' 253
Michel Foucault
Method • 261
Michel Foucault
Writing the History of the Present 269
Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose