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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... capital'.17 But critical reflection has itself become a 'transferable skill' required by the entrepreneurial denizens of liquid modernity. Critical theory, as Eagleton notes, is in an ambiguous position, both inside and outside the ...
... capital'.17 But critical reflection has itself become a 'transferable skill' required by the entrepreneurial denizens of liquid modernity. Critical theory, as Eagleton notes, is in an ambiguous position, both inside and outside the ...
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... capital 'T', will continue to replenish itself as it challenges different academic, cultural and political establishments (including its own orthodoxies). It will carry on playing a central role in innovative research in the humanities ...
... capital 'T', will continue to replenish itself as it challenges different academic, cultural and political establishments (including its own orthodoxies). It will carry on playing a central role in innovative research in the humanities ...
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... Capital Volume One. It was to have a major effect on the life and work of Zygmunt Bauman, who had become a communist in Poland during the Second World War. For it contained a world- view, and a critique of capitalist civilisation as ...
... Capital Volume One. It was to have a major effect on the life and work of Zygmunt Bauman, who had become a communist in Poland during the Second World War. For it contained a world- view, and a critique of capitalist civilisation as ...
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... capital which emigrates. The mechanisation of agriculture likewise compels local and regional migration. This is what Marx calls latent surplus population. Finally, by stagnant relative surplus population Marx designates those workers ...
... capital which emigrates. The mechanisation of agriculture likewise compels local and regional migration. This is what Marx calls latent surplus population. Finally, by stagnant relative surplus population Marx designates those workers ...
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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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