The Politics of Critical Theory

The contribution of George Snedeker's The Politics of Critical Theory represents a corrective within and to the discipline of sociology, revisiting some key thinkers in order to revitalize the critical potentials of sociology. One of Snedeker's most notable interventions concerns the necessity of literary criticism for any sociology worth the name. Although Snedeker, in the end, falls short of realizing such a synthesis, his book still offers a useful introduction to a varied group of thinkers indispensable for the practice of critical social thought.