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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... ) Moya Lloyd 6 Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–97) Caroline Williams 93 110 7 Green Critical Theorists David Kidner 127 8 Donna J. Haraway (1944–) Joan Faber McAlister 144 9 Ernesto Laclau (1935–) and Chantal Mouffe (1943–) Simon Contents.
... ) Moya Lloyd 6 Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–97) Caroline Williams 93 110 7 Green Critical Theorists David Kidner 127 8 Donna J. Haraway (1944–) Joan Faber McAlister 144 9 Ernesto Laclau (1935–) and Chantal Mouffe (1943–) Simon Contents.
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... Castoriadis (who belongs in the generation of Lyotard, Deleuze and Foucault, and is the only author included here who has died) and Virilio, whose significance has, however, grown notably since their first 'breakthrough'. Others appear ...
... Castoriadis (who belongs in the generation of Lyotard, Deleuze and Foucault, and is the only author included here who has died) and Virilio, whose significance has, however, grown notably since their first 'breakthrough'. Others appear ...
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... Castoriadis Althusser, Arendt, Freud, Lacan, Marx Green critical theorists Heidegger Haraway Foucault, Heidegger, Marx Laclau and Mouffe Althusser, Arendt (for Mouffe), Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Marx Latour Foucault Negri Deleuze and ...
... Castoriadis Althusser, Arendt, Freud, Lacan, Marx Green critical theorists Heidegger Haraway Foucault, Heidegger, Marx Laclau and Mouffe Althusser, Arendt (for Mouffe), Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Marx Latour Foucault Negri Deleuze and ...
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... Castoriadis had no truck with his more fashionable contemporaries, finding his inspiration for a Marxist politics in Freudian rather than Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as Aristotle, Kant and Merleau- Ponty. Green theorists tend to ...
... Castoriadis had no truck with his more fashionable contemporaries, finding his inspiration for a Marxist politics in Freudian rather than Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as Aristotle, Kant and Merleau- Ponty. Green theorists tend to ...
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... Castoriadis, Rancière and Virilio shows that Paris still holds a significant place in contemporary theory, and one might argue that Agamben comes through the same Franco- Germanic intellectual formation. Latour, Actor- Network Theory ...
... Castoriadis, Rancière and Virilio shows that Paris still holds a significant place in contemporary theory, and one might argue that Agamben comes through the same Franco- Germanic intellectual formation. Latour, Actor- Network Theory ...
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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