Thesis Eleven
Thesis Eleven publishes theories and theorists, surveys, critiques, debates and interpretations. The journal also brings together articles on place, region, or problems in the world today, encouraging civilizational analysis and work on alternative modernities from fascism and communism to Japan and Southeast Asia. Marxist in origin, post-Marxist by necessity, the journal is vitally concerned with change as well as with tradition.
Since it was established, the journal has published the work of some of the world's leading theorists including Niklas Luhmann, Alain Touraine, Immanuel Wallerstein, Martin Jay, Richard Rorty and Agnes Heller.
International Coverage
The identity of the journal, like its location, is multiple: European in the continental sense, but also transatlantic and colonial. The journal translates European social theory, mainstream and marginal, and it also takes theory from the margins of the world system to the centres.
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Thesis Eleven is multidisciplinary, reaching across the social sciences and liberal arts (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, geography, cultural studies, literature and politics) and cultivating a diversity of critical theories of modernity across both the German and French senses of critical theory.
Review Section
Each issue of the journal contains a review section including review articles and reviews of the latest publications in social theory.
Student Subscription Rate
Students can subscribe at a 30% discount on the individual rate. Please contact our subscription department for details.
"Thesis Eleven is read around the world, as an exemplification of cosmopolitan theorizing at its best. Always original, always interdisciplinary, it has developed a unique, and uniquely valued, voice in global intellectual life." Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, USA
"Thesis Eleven is a well established and internationally recognized journal in social and political theory; it publishes excellent and innovative papers of an interdisciplinary nature." Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex, UK
"Thesis Eleven is one of the few indispensable journals for those concerned with the contemporary social world and with the situation of social theory." Chamsy el-Ojeili, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
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Thesis Eleven (Thesis 11), peer reviewed and published quarterly, is multidisciplinary, reaching across the social sciences (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, geography, cultural studies, literature and politics) and cultivating diverse critical theories of modernity. Reflecting the broad scope of social theory it encourages civilizational analysis on a wide range of alternative modernities and takes critical theory from the margins of the world system to its centre.
Established in 1996 Thesis Eleven is a truly international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal. Innovative and authoritative the journal produces articles, reviews and debate with a central focus on theories of society, culture, and politics and the understanding of modernity.
The purpose of this journal is to encourage the development of social theory in the broadest sense. We view social theory as both multidisciplinary and plural, reaching across social sciences and liberal arts (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, politics, geography, cultural studies and literature) and cultivating a diversity of critical theories of modernity across both the German and French senses of critical theory.
The identity of the journal, like its location, is multiple: European in the continental sense, but also transatlantic and colonial. The journal translates European social theory, mainstream and marginal, and it also takes theory from the margins of the world system to the centres.
Social theory progresses through substantive concerns as well as formal or textural endeavour; the journal therefore publishes theories, and theorists, surveys, critiques, debates and interpretations, but also papers to do with place, region, or problems in the world today, encouraging civilizational analysis and work on alternative modernities from fascism and communism to Japan and Southeast Asia. Marxist in origin, post-Marxist by necessity, the journal is vitally concerned with change as well as with tradition.
Peter Beilharz | Sichuan University, China |
Rachel Busbridge | Australian Catholic University, Australia |
Howard Prosser | Monash University, Australia |
Alonso Casanueva Baptista | La Trobe University, Australia |
Tin Luong | La Trobe University, Australia |
Timothy Andrews | La Trobe University, Australia |
James Dorahy | University of Sydney, Australia |
Julian Joseph Potter | Australian Catholic University, Australia |
Ira Raja | University of Delhi, India |
Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí | La Trobe University, Australia |
Sian Supski | La Trobe University, Australia |
Jeffrey C. Alexander | Yale University, USA |
Zygmunt Bauman | University of Leeds, UK and Warsaw University, Poland |
Dominique Bouchet | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
Craig Calhoun | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
Luis David SJ | Ateneo de Manila Law School, Philippines |
Mark Davis | University of Leeds, UK |
Eduardo De La Fuente | University of Wollongong, Australia |
Gerard Delanty | University of Sussex, UK |
Chamsy el-Ojeili | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
Austin Harrington | University of Leeds, UK |
Agnes Heller | New School for Social Research, New York, USA |
Barry Hindess | Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
Trevor Hogan | La Trobe University, Australia |
Axel Honneth | J W Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany |
Martin Jay | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
Hans Joas | Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
Joel S Kahn | La Trobe University, Australia |
Krishan Kumar | University of Virginia, USA |
Udaya Kumar | University of Delhi |
Fuyuki Kurasawa | York University, Canada |
Vassilis Lambropoulos | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
María Pía Lara | U AM-I, Mexico |
John Lechte | Macquarie University, Australia |
Simon Marginson | Oxford University, UK |
György Markus | University of Sydney, Australia |
Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia |
Maria Celia Paoli | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Carole Pateman | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
Orlando Patterson | Harvard University, USA |
Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. | Georgia State University, UK |
Donald Sassoon | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
Priti Singh | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
Margaret R Somers | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
George Steinmetz | University of Michigan, USA |
Ivan Szelenyi | Yale University, USA |
Keith Tester | University of Hull, UK |
Alain Touraine | CADIS, Paris, France |
Julian Triado | Melbourne, Australia |
Peter Vale | Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa |
Loic Wacquant | University of California, USA |
Peter Wagner | University of Barcelona, Spain |
Immanuel Wallerstein | Yale University, USA |
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