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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Page 7
... argue that Agamben comes through the same Franco- Germanic intellectual formation. Latour, Actor- Network Theory and science studies do not belong to that formation and Mouffe, who was born in Belgium, has flourished in an Anglophone ...
... argue that Agamben comes through the same Franco- Germanic intellectual formation. Latour, Actor- Network Theory and science studies do not belong to that formation and Mouffe, who was born in Belgium, has flourished in an Anglophone ...
Page 8
... argues that the critique of social theory has run out of steam.7 Yet, critical theory has also succeeded in certain ways at the same time as excitement about it has waned, at least for the generation for whom it was a novel discovery ...
... argues that the critique of social theory has run out of steam.7 Yet, critical theory has also succeeded in certain ways at the same time as excitement about it has waned, at least for the generation for whom it was a novel discovery ...
Page 15
... arguing it is a massive category mistake, implying a holiness of sacrifice rather than murder on a colossal scale).3 Beyond those works, he has honed his ideas of ethics, sovereignty and limit situations, where the question of what it ...
... arguing it is a massive category mistake, implying a holiness of sacrifice rather than murder on a colossal scale).3 Beyond those works, he has honed his ideas of ethics, sovereignty and limit situations, where the question of what it ...
Page 20
... argues that Western society moves from a regimen where the ruler controls the right over life and death (that is, to wield the power of death), to one where life itself becomes subject to control. Biopolitics governs in bureaucratic ...
... argues that Western society moves from a regimen where the ruler controls the right over life and death (that is, to wield the power of death), to one where life itself becomes subject to control. Biopolitics governs in bureaucratic ...
Page 24
... argues that it is only with democracy that we get the notion of 'exception',33 as individual sovereigns simply wielded power without recourse to breaking free of law in a way that required consulting other legally constituted bodies. As ...
... argues that it is only with democracy that we get the notion of 'exception',33 as individual sovereigns simply wielded power without recourse to breaking free of law in a way that required consulting other legally constituted bodies. As ...
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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