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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... colonial literature, critical theory and visual culture. His publications include Foucault in an Age of Terror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), co- edited with Stephen Bygrave, Salman Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity (Palgrave ...
... colonial literature, critical theory and visual culture. His publications include Foucault in an Age of Terror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), co- edited with Stephen Bygrave, Salman Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity (Palgrave ...
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... colonial, anti- racist, anti- anthropocentric analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also critical of her fellow- traveller in science studies, Latour, who shares with her and post- structuralism a ...
... colonial, anti- racist, anti- anthropocentric analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also critical of her fellow- traveller in science studies, Latour, who shares with her and post- structuralism a ...
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... colonial theory would have with a chapter on Trin T. Minh- ha, and contemporary feminism with a chapter on Rosi Braidotti. The decision to include a chapter on Rancière was made consciously in comparison to other French political ...
... colonial theory would have with a chapter on Trin T. Minh- ha, and contemporary feminism with a chapter on Rosi Braidotti. The decision to include a chapter on Rancière was made consciously in comparison to other French political ...
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... colonial struggles for independence, the student revolts, the women's movements and the anti- war movement. At that point, universities, or at least certain sectors of them, were no longer 'citadels of disinterested inquiry' but ...
... colonial struggles for independence, the student revolts, the women's movements and the anti- war movement. At that point, universities, or at least certain sectors of them, were no longer 'citadels of disinterested inquiry' but ...
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... colonial past in the hybrid identities and migrant experiences of the post- colonial present; Butler to theorise the oppression of the 'heterosexual matrix' and the resistance to it in queer performativity; Castoriadis to theorise the ...
... colonial past in the hybrid identities and migrant experiences of the post- colonial present; Butler to theorise the oppression of the 'heterosexual matrix' and the resistance to it in queer performativity; Castoriadis to theorise the ...
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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