Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique, and History

Through engagement with the core problems of social theory as well as recent socio-political thought, this book explores landmark instances of 21^st century social contestation, in order to demonstrate the importance of critical social theory to explaining and understanding contemporary social conflict and social transformation.

Craig Browne is an associate professor at The University of Sydney. He works in the area of critical social theory. His research into intersubjectivity, creative democracy, social change, contestation, global modernity and social and political imaginaries systematically revises the philosophy of praxis. He is the author of Critical Social Theory, Sage; and Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity: A Constructive Comparison, Anthem; and co-author of Taylor and Politics: A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh University Press. He co-edited Violence in France and Australia: Disorder in the Postcolonial Welfare State, SUP, and a special issue of Social Epistemology on conceptualizing the political imaginary.