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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... become a 'critical canon' established by the first generations of Anglophone academics to disseminate the mostly imported ideas of critical theory. I also argued that the explosion of critical theories by the 1980s had both its ...
... become a 'critical canon' established by the first generations of Anglophone academics to disseminate the mostly imported ideas of critical theory. I also argued that the explosion of critical theories by the 1980s had both its ...
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... becoming not so much post- Marxist as post- political. Yet they both ascribe critical theory's decline to the waning of a ... become a 'transferable skill' required by the entrepreneurial denizens of liquid modernity. Critical theory, as ...
... becoming not so much post- Marxist as post- political. Yet they both ascribe critical theory's decline to the waning of a ... become a 'transferable skill' required by the entrepreneurial denizens of liquid modernity. Critical theory, as ...
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... becomes nothing. Throughout his oeuvre, he has also considered the form and function of aesthetic production, the role of the artist and so on.2 Above these two areas of interest, though, towers his thought on the limits of what it is ...
... becomes nothing. Throughout his oeuvre, he has also considered the form and function of aesthetic production, the role of the artist and so on.2 Above these two areas of interest, though, towers his thought on the limits of what it is ...
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... becomes internal in and as language. According to Agamben, the history of metaphysics (he does not specify Western, but that seems to be his sole reference) understands language as the means of attaining or approaching the ...
... becomes internal in and as language. According to Agamben, the history of metaphysics (he does not specify Western, but that seems to be his sole reference) understands language as the means of attaining or approaching the ...
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... becomes a way of knowing the world that is other to the subject, and then the means of self- consciousness: 'if language were immediately the voice of man [as it is for animals] ... he could never experience the taking place of language ...
... becomes a way of knowing the world that is other to the subject, and then the means of self- consciousness: 'if language were immediately the voice of man [as it is for animals] ... he could never experience the taking place of language ...
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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