Theory, Culture & Society Key Theorists

Theory, Culture & Society has featured many articles by leading social and cultural theorists. On this page we provide information on these theorists and their areas of interest, as well as links to their work both in TCS and on other sites.

• Theodor Adorno articles in TCS | On popular music video | bio | Excerpt from Dialectic of Enlightenment

• Giorgio Agamben articles in TCS | An interview with the German Law Journal | EGS | Les pires des régimes   | On Security and Terror

• Arjun Appadurai articles in TCS | Fear of Small Numbers (Google Books) | bio

• Jean Baudrillard articles in TCS | The Violence of the Global | bio | interview

• Zygmunt Bauman articles in TCS | Guardian interview | bio | how to survive death video | e-Special

• Ulrich Beck articles in TCS | A new cosmopolitanism | bio | e-Special

• Pierre Bourdieu articles in TCS | In perspective | interviews; 1986, 1993 | Special Issue

• Judith Butler articles in TCS | bio | interviews; 1999, 2010

• Jacques Derrida articles in TCS | Derrida Online | bio | key concepts

• Gilles Deleuze articles in TCS | ‘The Crowd and Deleuze’ video | bio | Online resources

• Norbert Elias articles in TCS | Norbert Elias Foundation | bio | key concepts

• Bracha Ettinger articles in TCS | blog | bio | Flickr photostream

• Michel Foucault articles in TCS | michel-foucault.com | bio | Special Issue

• Hans-Georg Gadamer articles in TCS | other online resources | bio | interview

• Anthony Giddens articles in TCS | bio | interview

• Erving Goffman articles in TCS | Bibliography | bio 

• Jack Goody articles in TCS | The Labyrinth of Kinship | bio | interviewed by Eric Hobsbawm video

• Jürgen Habermas articles in TCS | bio | interview 

• Donna Haraway articles in TCS | interviews; 2006, 2017 | from A Cyborg Manifesto | Wired.com on Haraway

• Michael Hardt articles in TCS | bio | New Left Review | interview

• Katherine Hayles articles in TCS | Writing Machines supplement | bio | Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers | interviews; 2007, 2019 | Special Issue

• Max Horkheimer articles in TCS | other online essays | bio 

• Luce Irigaray articles in TCS | bio

• Friedrich Kittler articles in TCS | Review | bio | interview at EGS video | interview | e-Special

• Niklas Luhmann articles in TCS | interview | bio 

• Jean-François Lyotard articles in TCS | interview | other online essays | bio | The Postmodern Condition

• Antonio Negri articles in TCS | antonionegri.com | A Revolt that Never Ends video | interview

• Paul Ricoeur articles in TCS | bio | blog postings on Ricoeur

• Georg Simmel articles in TCS | bio | Georg Simmel on Philosophy and Culture | Special Issue

• Bernard Stiegler articles in TCS | bio | Technics and Time | interview

• Paul Virilio articles in TCS | Lev Manovich on Virilio | bio | video | interview | Special Issue

• Immanuel Wallerstein articles in TCS | World system theory | bio | end of Capitalism video

• Max Weber articles in TCS | bio | key excerpts

• Alfred North Whitehead articles in TCS | bio | TCS Special issue on Whitehead | Whitehead research project