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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... animals to be without speech and humans the speaking animal. Not so, writes Agamben, as animals are in language, whilst humans come to it gradually, acquiring it as something external to them. This discovery of language is what 15 ...
... animals to be without speech and humans the speaking animal. Not so, writes Agamben, as animals are in language, whilst humans come to it gradually, acquiring it as something external to them. This discovery of language is what 15 ...
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... animal' is a widespread problem in critical theory of the last few years). Elsewhere, he states explicitly that ... animal cannot have this negative experience. Instead of dying, animals merely cease living. After a long discussion on ...
... animal' is a widespread problem in critical theory of the last few years). Elsewhere, he states explicitly that ... animal cannot have this negative experience. Instead of dying, animals merely cease living. After a long discussion on ...
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... animal and human, Agamben's insight is that the human voice is the loss of animal voice (a loss which only occurs for the animal at death). The idea announced in Infancy and History is developed here to add in the notion of human ...
... animal and human, Agamben's insight is that the human voice is the loss of animal voice (a loss which only occurs for the animal at death). The idea announced in Infancy and History is developed here to add in the notion of human ...
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... animal who seems not to be encumbered by any specific nature or any specific identity [i.e. the situation animals find themselves in] – must experience this poverty more radically'.11 Agamben's recent works maintain his obsession with ...
... animal who seems not to be encumbered by any specific nature or any specific identity [i.e. the situation animals find themselves in] – must experience this poverty more radically'.11 Agamben's recent works maintain his obsession with ...
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... animal'.13 Agamben's take on 'the animal' is problematic. He acknowledges that in differentiating human and animal through use of language we are only retrospectively justifying a difference based on a presumption, one that requires ...
... animal'.13 Agamben's take on 'the animal' is problematic. He acknowledges that in differentiating human and animal through use of language we are only retrospectively justifying a difference based on a presumption, one that requires ...
Contents
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29 | |
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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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