Keith Tester is Professor of Social Theory at the University of Portsmouth. Author of The Inhuman Condition (Routledge, 1995); The Life and Times of Postmodernity (Routledge, 1993); Civil Society (Routledge, 1992); Two Sovereigns: Social Contradictions of European Modernity (Routledge, 1992); Animals and Society (Routledge, 1991), this book was winner of the Philip Abrams Prize; and editor of The Flaneur (Routledge, 1994).
