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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... Autonomy, Contingency and the Postmodern: The Political Thought of Agnes Heller (Manchester University Press, 2000), Anti- Capitalism (Oneworld, 2004), and Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post- Marxism (with Jules Townshend [Sage ...
... Autonomy, Contingency and the Postmodern: The Political Thought of Agnes Heller (Manchester University Press, 2000), Anti- Capitalism (Oneworld, 2004), and Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post- Marxism (with Jules Townshend [Sage ...
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... autonomy for all; green thinkers to theorise our existence as embodied creatures within our environment; Haraway to theorise the relation between techno- scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and ...
... autonomy for all; green thinkers to theorise our existence as embodied creatures within our environment; Haraway to theorise the relation between techno- scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and ...
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... autonomy of 'living labour' that struggles to transform it; Rancière to theorise the radical democratic politics of attending to those who do not count in the 'police' ordering of who can be heard and seen; Spivak to theorise the ...
... autonomy of 'living labour' that struggles to transform it; Rancière to theorise the radical democratic politics of attending to those who do not count in the 'police' ordering of who can be heard and seen; Spivak to theorise the ...
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... autonomy, modernity does not foreclose the issue of its contingency, but allows the contingent and universal to confront each other on the same plane of decision. In this sense, Badiou's call to return to a mindset oriented toward the ...
... autonomy, modernity does not foreclose the issue of its contingency, but allows the contingent and universal to confront each other on the same plane of decision. In this sense, Badiou's call to return to a mindset oriented toward the ...
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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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