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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... Marxism (with Jules Townshend [Sage, 2006]), as well as numerous articles and chapters about radical political theory. Caroline Williams is Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London. She is the author of ...
... Marxism (with Jules Townshend [Sage, 2006]), as well as numerous articles and chapters about radical political theory. Caroline Williams is Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London. She is the author of ...
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... Marxism and post- Marxism, semiotics and discourse analysis, structuralism and post- structuralism, ideology critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as ...
... Marxism and post- Marxism, semiotics and discourse analysis, structuralism and post- structuralism, ideology critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as ...
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... Marxism in their groundbreaking work in postcolonial theory. Butler built on a blend of 'French feminism', psychoanalysis, Foucault and deconstruction to forge a bold direction for queer theory. By contrast, Žižek's Lacanian Marxist ...
... Marxism in their groundbreaking work in postcolonial theory. Butler built on a blend of 'French feminism', psychoanalysis, Foucault and deconstruction to forge a bold direction for queer theory. By contrast, Žižek's Lacanian Marxist ...
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... Marxism harkens back to Plato in a conscious distancing from Nietzschean postmodernism, while Bauman works above all to ... Marxist politics in Freudian rather than Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as Aristotle, Kant and Merleau- Ponty ...
... Marxism harkens back to Plato in a conscious distancing from Nietzschean postmodernism, while Bauman works above all to ... Marxist politics in Freudian rather than Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as Aristotle, Kant and Merleau- Ponty ...
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... Marxism by becoming not so much post- Marxist as post- political. Yet they both ascribe critical theory's decline to the waning of a general political radicality, the decline of the left (old and new). The political conditions of ...
... Marxism by becoming not so much post- Marxist as post- political. Yet they both ascribe critical theory's decline to the waning of a general political radicality, the decline of the left (old and new). The political conditions of ...
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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