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Robert J. Antonio is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. He works in classical, critical, and contemporary social theory. Among his publications are: “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” American Journal of Sociology ; “The Normative Foundations of Emancipatory Theory: Evolutionary vs. Pragmatic Perspectives,” American Journal of Sociology ; and “Mapping Postmodern Social Theory,” in What Is Social Theory? Douglas J. Goodman completed his dissertation, “The Sociology of Freedom,” at the University of Maryland at College Park, and is now an assistant professor at the University of Puget Sound, WA. He has published pieces on Lacan, Luhmann, and Habermas, and has written on the sociology of consumption and postmodernism. Susan Hoecker-Drysdale is Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec; Visiting Fellow, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1997–8. Her publications include: Harriet Martineau: First Woman Sociologist (1992); “Harriet Martineau (1802–1876): Kritische Sozialforschung: Theorie und Praxis,” in Frauen in der Soziologie: Neun Porträts (edited by Claudia Honegger and Theresa Wobbe, 1998); “The Enigma of Harriet Martineau's Letters on Science,” Women's Writings: the Elizabethan to Victorian Period (1995); “Sociologists in the Vineyard: ... log in or subscribe to read full text