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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... (1956–) 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.
... (1956–) 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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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. 144 9 Ernesto Laclau (1935–) and Chantal Mouffe (1943–) Simon Tormey 10 Bruno Latour (1947–) Ilana Gershon 161 177 11 Antonio Negri (1933–) Arianna Bove 194 12 Jacques Rancière (1940–) Samuel A ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. 144 9 Ernesto Laclau (1935–) and Chantal Mouffe (1943–) Simon Tormey 10 Bruno Latour (1947–) Ilana Gershon 161 177 11 Antonio Negri (1933–) Arianna Bove 194 12 Jacques Rancière (1940–) Samuel A ...
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... Laclau and Mouffe Althusser, Arendt (for Mouffe), Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Marx Latour Foucault Negri Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Marx Rancière Althusser, Marx Spivak Deleuze and Guattari ... Laclau's and Mouffe's post- 4 Jon Simons.
... Laclau and Mouffe Althusser, Arendt (for Mouffe), Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Marx Latour Foucault Negri Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Marx Rancière Althusser, Marx Spivak Deleuze and Guattari ... Laclau's and Mouffe's post- 4 Jon Simons.
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. previous theorists. While the innovation of Laclau's and Mouffe's post ... Laclau and Mouffe combined Gramscian neo- Marxism with Derridean and Foucauldian poststructuralism to conceptualise a ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. previous theorists. While the innovation of Laclau's and Mouffe's post ... Laclau and Mouffe combined Gramscian neo- Marxism with Derridean and Foucauldian poststructuralism to conceptualise a ...
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... Laclau also insists that the 'post- theoretical' universe is not 'a- theoretical'.18 In another volume whose title ... Laclau and Mouffe to theorise the radical democratic alternative to the prevailing liberal capitalist hegemony; Latour ...
... Laclau also insists that the 'post- theoretical' universe is not 'a- theoretical'.18 In another volume whose title ... Laclau and Mouffe to theorise the radical democratic alternative to the prevailing liberal capitalist hegemony; Latour ...
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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