Title: Mediocre collection. Awkwardly extracted + spliced.
Product review: With a Ph.D and extensive training in the areas detailed by this book, I should have enjoyed the read more. But the editor's choice of chapters did not lend to a good read. The excerpts chosen fail to cohere. And the excerpts here are not good representations of the authors' work.The table of contents made my mouth water: Bourdieu, Strathern, Foucault, Dumont, Luhmann, Habermas, Lyotard, etc. But the sum is far, far less than the sum of parts.The introduction isn't a great deal of help--one feels that this collection is more representative of Faubion's personal faves, and less a work designed to communicate to a greater audience.There are much better collections addressing the re-thought subject. This is not the one to choose. I'm afraid I just cannot recommend this collection to anyone.
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