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The landscape of the social sciences, in the last few decades, has increasingly become reluctant to engage in theoretical production. Nevertheless, this lack of academic echo is neither due to an alarming absence of authors willing to commit themselves to in-depth perspectives on social phenomena, nor to a shy and dispersed readership of sophisticated arguments. Instead, it seems to be a question of allotting and sharply differentiating intellectual interests. Indeed, most of contemporary theoretical works embrace either a single specific field (e.g., philosophy, sociology, linguistics) or display an appetence for broad diagnoses of intellectual production. These views seldom meet—but when they do, the results are worth mentioning. Such is the case of The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciencesby Simon Susen: a book that maps the “impact” (p. 1) of the “postmodern turn” in different fields of the social sciences, retraces the contrapuntal accents of postmodernism in the face of the...

DOI: 10.1007/s10746-018-9478-4

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