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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... Negri (1933–) Arianna Bove 194 12 Jacques Rancière (1940–) Samuel A. Chambers 210 227 13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942–) Stephen Morton 14 Paul Virilio (1932–) John Armitage 15 Slavoj Žižek (1949–) Matthew Sharpe 243 Names index ...
... Negri (1933–) Arianna Bove 194 12 Jacques Rancière (1940–) Samuel A. Chambers 210 227 13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942–) Stephen Morton 14 Paul Virilio (1932–) John Armitage 15 Slavoj Žižek (1949–) Matthew Sharpe 243 Names index ...
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... 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 sexuality. He is the ...
... 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 sexuality. He is the ...
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... Negri and Rancière, who had published significant work before 1990 but which either was not translated until later ... Negri's Spinozist autonomist Marxism mingled with Foucault's biopolitics and Deleuze's notion of desire provides a ...
... Negri and Rancière, who had published significant work before 1990 but which either was not translated until later ... Negri's Spinozist autonomist Marxism mingled with Foucault's biopolitics and Deleuze's notion of desire provides a ...
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... Negri, refers back to Spinoza. Haraway engages critically with Marx, Derrida and Foucault in her feminist, post- colonial, anti- racist, anti- anthropocentric analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also ...
... Negri, refers back to Spinoza. Haraway engages critically with Marx, Derrida and Foucault in her feminist, post- colonial, anti- racist, anti- anthropocentric analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also ...
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... Negri's reference to Spinoza's ontology similarly posits a world of lively matter. This empiricist and even scientific tendency among these critical theorists indicates something of a waning of the 'linguistic turn', as Richard Rorty ...
... Negri's reference to Spinoza's ontology similarly posits a world of lively matter. This empiricist and even scientific tendency among these critical theorists indicates something of a waning of the 'linguistic turn', as Richard Rorty ...
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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