Kenneth H Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 115495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth H Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth H |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A new kind of personal politics: On the populism of Trump and Sanders
While most studies of contemporary populism see it as a reaction to economic and cultural change that appeals to solidarities based on nation, race, or class, this essay argues that the American populism embodied by Trump and Sanders must be viewed through a new register. The political culture of the U.S. has been dramatically transformed in recent years, and Trump’s and Sanders’s versions of populism reflects these changes. Given the prominence …
American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency
(S)he Conquers Who Endures”: Theodora DeWolf Colt and the Birth of a New Cultural Elite
This essay explores the intersection of gender and class in the making of the new “high brow” culture of the late nineteenth century, represented by the matriarch of Bristol, Rhode Island, Theodora Goujaud DeWolf Colt. Through her poetry and salons, Theodora, like other wealthy women of the time, helped fashion a new bourgeois culture, which, though centered in New York and Boston, radiated outward to the smaller cities of the U.S., such as Brist…
The political is personal, expressive, aesthetic, and networked: Contemporary American languages of the self from Trump to Black Lives Matter
Althusser, Louis (1918–1990)
Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher, best known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism in the 1960s. He was also important as a strong intellectual influence on many of the poststructuralist authors such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida, who became central figures in social‐scientific and literary studies in Europe and the United States in the 1970s
Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process
Renewal in the French Trade Union Movement: A Grassroots Perspective
The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties
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From the Imaginary to Subjectivation: Castoriadis and Touraine on the Performative Public Sphere
Neither Habermas nor his communitarian and poststructuralist critics sufficiently explore the non-linguistic, playful, and performative dimensions of contemporary public spheres. I argue that the approaches of Castoriadis and Touraine can inform a theoretical understanding of the history and current resonance of this public sphere of performance. Their concepts of the social imaginary, the autonomous society, and subjectivation highlight the role…
Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective
Recent discussion about the role of civil society in democratic governance around the world and the decline of social capital in the US has raised pressing theoretical and empirical questions about the character of contemporary societies and the social and institutional correlates of sound and dynamic democracies. This debate has reached a North American and European audience that extends well beyond academia. The predominant refrain in the debat…
Another Modernity, A Different Rationality
This book is Lash′s most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has – in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition – initiated a different rationality of uncertainty…
The elements of social theory
State-Making and Labor-Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914. Gerald Friedman
Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory
This thorough assessment of Giddens' work incorporates many different perspectives on his theory of structuration, his work on the formation of cultural identities and the fate of the nation-state
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
Important Brush Strokes: The Significance of Two Biblical Episodes in Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
Habermas and the Public Sphere
Aesthetics, Play, and Cultural Memory: Giddens and Habermas on the Postmodern Challenge
This essay examines the response of Habermas to Giddens to postmodern criticism of modernity. Although Giddens and Habermas recognize that the « totalizing critique » of postructuralism lacks a convincing analysis of social interaction, neither of their perspectives adequately addresses the postmodern themes of aesthetics, play, and cultural memory. Giddens and Habermas believe that these dimensions of social life are important ; yet they remain …
From Georges Sorel: Vol. 2: Hermeneutics and the Sciences
A Critical Dictionary of Sociology. Raymond Boudon and Francois Bourricaud
How New are the New Social Movements
Margins of Political Discourse
Culture, television, and opposition: Rethinking cultural studies
This essay critically addresses the issues of culture, cultural politics, social power, and the television audience in cultural studies. Although this approach has become a dominant one in media studies, its theoretical assumptions have not been sufficiently scrutinized. Our criticism focuses on two major themes. First, we argue that cultural studies tends to analyze all cultural interpretation in terms of struggles between dominant and subordina…
How New are the New Social Movements
Culture, television, and opposition: Rethinking cultural studies
This essay critically addresses the issues of culture, cultural politics, social power, and the television audience in cultural studies. Although this approach has become a dominant one in media studies, its theoretical assumptions have not been sufficiently scrutinized. Our criticism focuses on two major themes. First, we argue that cultural studies tends to analyze all cultural interpretation in terms of struggles between dominant and subordina…
Ideology and Social Movements: The Contributions of Habermas
Theorists of social movements have not developed a sufficiently complex perspective of the role that ideology has in the dynamics of social movements. This essay demonstrates that Habermas'theory of the autonomy of normative structures is useful to explain the independent role of ideology in determining the direction taken by social movements. Habermas'emphasis on the interrelationship between cultural traditions, consensus formation, epistemolog…
Aesthetics, Play, and Cultural Memory: Giddens and Habermas on the Postmodern Challenge
This essay examines the response of Habermas to Giddens to postmodern criticism of modernity. Although Giddens and Habermas recognize that the « totalizing critique » of postructuralism lacks a convincing analysis of social interaction, neither of their perspectives adequately addresses the postmodern themes of aesthetics, play, and cultural memory. Giddens and Habermas believe that these dimensions of social life are important ; yet they remain …
Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process
Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective
Recent discussion about the role of civil society in democratic governance around the world and the decline of social capital in the US has raised pressing theoretical and empirical questions about the character of contemporary societies and the social and institutional correlates of sound and dynamic democracies. This debate has reached a North American and European audience that extends well beyond academia. The predominant refrain in the debat…
The political is personal, expressive, aesthetic, and networked: Contemporary American languages of the self from Trump to Black Lives Matter
A new kind of personal politics: On the populism of Trump and Sanders
While most studies of contemporary populism see it as a reaction to economic and cultural change that appeals to solidarities based on nation, race, or class, this essay argues that the American populism embodied by Trump and Sanders must be viewed through a new register. The political culture of the U.S. has been dramatically transformed in recent years, and Trump’s and Sanders’s versions of populism reflects these changes. Given the prominence …
Did John Webster Know Shakespeare’s King John
NotesThe While Devil, ed. John Russell Brown (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1960), p.4.See especially, Travis Bogard, The Tragic Satire of John Webster (1955; New York: Russell and Russell, 1965, p. 8; and D C. Gunby, Webster: The White Devil. Studies in English Literature 45 (London: Edward Arnold, 1971), p. 8.Charles Crawford, “Montaigne, Webster, and Marston: Dr. Donne and Webster,” NQ 112 (1905), 41–43, 121–23, 202–03; 113 (1906). 301–03,38…
Ideology and Social Movements: The Contributions of Habermas
Theorists of social movements have not developed a sufficiently complex perspective of the role that ideology has in the dynamics of social movements. This essay demonstrates that Habermas'theory of the autonomy of normative structures is useful to explain the independent role of ideology in determining the direction taken by social movements. Habermas'emphasis on the interrelationship between cultural traditions, consensus formation, epistemolog…
Margins of Political Discourse
Culture, television, and opposition: Rethinking cultural studies
This essay critically addresses the issues of culture, cultural politics, social power, and the television audience in cultural studies. Although this approach has become a dominant one in media studies, its theoretical assumptions have not been sufficiently scrutinized. Our criticism focuses on two major themes. First, we argue that cultural studies tends to analyze all cultural interpretation in terms of struggles between dominant and subordina…
From Georges Sorel: Vol. 2: Hermeneutics and the Sciences
A Critical Dictionary of Sociology. Raymond Boudon and Francois Bourricaud
How New are the New Social Movements
Habermas and the Public Sphere
Aesthetics, Play, and Cultural Memory: Giddens and Habermas on the Postmodern Challenge
This essay examines the response of Habermas to Giddens to postmodern criticism of modernity. Although Giddens and Habermas recognize that the « totalizing critique » of postructuralism lacks a convincing analysis of social interaction, neither of their perspectives adequately addresses the postmodern themes of aesthetics, play, and cultural memory. Giddens and Habermas believe that these dimensions of social life are important ; yet they remain …
Important Brush Strokes: The Significance of Two Biblical Episodes in Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory
This thorough assessment of Giddens' work incorporates many different perspectives on his theory of structuration, his work on the formation of cultural identities and the fate of the nation-state
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
The elements of social theory
State-Making and Labor-Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914. Gerald Friedman
Another Modernity, A Different Rationality
This book is Lash′s most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has – in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition – initiated a different rationality of uncertainty…
Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective
Recent discussion about the role of civil society in democratic governance around the world and the decline of social capital in the US has raised pressing theoretical and empirical questions about the character of contemporary societies and the social and institutional correlates of sound and dynamic democracies. This debate has reached a North American and European audience that extends well beyond academia. The predominant refrain in the debat…
From the Imaginary to Subjectivation: Castoriadis and Touraine on the Performative Public Sphere
Neither Habermas nor his communitarian and poststructuralist critics sufficiently explore the non-linguistic, playful, and performative dimensions of contemporary public spheres. I argue that the approaches of Castoriadis and Touraine can inform a theoretical understanding of the history and current resonance of this public sphere of performance. Their concepts of the social imaginary, the autonomous society, and subjectivation highlight the role…
The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Renewal in the French Trade Union Movement: A Grassroots Perspective
Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process
(S)he Conquers Who Endures”: Theodora DeWolf Colt and the Birth of a New Cultural Elite
This essay explores the intersection of gender and class in the making of the new “high brow” culture of the late nineteenth century, represented by the matriarch of Bristol, Rhode Island, Theodora Goujaud DeWolf Colt. Through her poetry and salons, Theodora, like other wealthy women of the time, helped fashion a new bourgeois culture, which, though centered in New York and Boston, radiated outward to the smaller cities of the U.S., such as Brist…
The political is personal, expressive, aesthetic, and networked: Contemporary American languages of the self from Trump to Black Lives Matter
Althusser, Louis (1918–1990)
Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher, best known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism in the 1960s. He was also important as a strong intellectual influence on many of the poststructuralist authors such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida, who became central figures in social‐scientific and literary studies in Europe and the United States in the 1970s
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (18 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works)