From Agamben to Zizek: Contemporary Critical TheoristsJon Simons Edinburgh University Press, 2010 M09 10 - 288 pages In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Ranciere and Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on Green critical theorists. |
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... Althusser, Foucault, Negri, Berardi, Virno and others. Samuel A. Chambers teaches political theory at Johns Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and ...
... Althusser, Foucault, Negri, Berardi, Virno and others. Samuel A. Chambers teaches political theory at Johns Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and ...
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... Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject (Continuum, 2001), as well as journal articles and essays on Spinoza, Althusser, and post- structuralism more generally. She is currently working on xi Notes on Contributors.
... Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject (Continuum, 2001), as well as journal articles and essays on Spinoza, Althusser, and post- structuralism more generally. She is currently working on xi Notes on Contributors.
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... Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen introductory essays about xii Notes on Contributors.
... Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen introductory essays about xii Notes on Contributors.
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... Althusser, Barthes, Kristeva, Derrida, Levinas, Lyotard, Irigaray, Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Habermas, Jameson and Said.1 As I wrote in the introduction to that volume, the thinkers included there ...
... Althusser, Barthes, Kristeva, Derrida, Levinas, Lyotard, Irigaray, Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Habermas, Jameson and Said.1 As I wrote in the introduction to that volume, the thinkers included there ...
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... Althusser, Foucault, Freud, Hegel, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, Nietzsche Castoriadis Althusser, Arendt, Freud, Lacan, Marx Green critical theorists Heidegger Haraway Foucault, Heidegger, Marx Laclau and Mouffe Althusser, Arendt (for ...
... Althusser, Foucault, Freud, Hegel, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, Nietzsche Castoriadis Althusser, Arendt, Freud, Lacan, Marx Green critical theorists Heidegger Haraway Foucault, Heidegger, Marx Laclau and Mouffe Althusser, Arendt (for ...
Contents
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4 Homi K Bhabha 1949 | 60 |
5 Judith Butler 1956 | 77 |
6 Cornelius Castoriadis 192297 | 93 |
7 Green Critical Theorists | 110 |
10 Bruno Latour 1947 | 161 |
11 Antonio Negri 1933 | 177 |
12 Jacques Rancière 1940 | 194 |
13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1942 | 210 |
14 Paul Virilio 1932 | 227 |
15 Slavoj Žižek 1949 | 243 |
Names index | 259 |
Subject index | 263 |
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