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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... concepts, outlines some major angles of criticism, indicates areas and ways in which the theories have been applied, and offers suggestions for further reading. On completing each chapter, readers should feel confident that they can ...
... concepts, outlines some major angles of criticism, indicates areas and ways in which the theories have been applied, and offers suggestions for further reading. On completing each chapter, readers should feel confident that they can ...
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... Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwob (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005 [1934]). Essential background to Agamben. Wall, Thomas Carl, Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot and Agamben (New York: SUNY Press ...
... Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwob (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005 [1934]). Essential background to Agamben. Wall, Thomas Carl, Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot and Agamben (New York: SUNY Press ...
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... concepts to 'the discourse of being as being' (namely, ontology, which for Badiou is mathematics), Being and Event invites a reader to think about how philosophy has positioned itself with respect to two mathematical extremes: the void ...
... concepts to 'the discourse of being as being' (namely, ontology, which for Badiou is mathematics), Being and Event invites a reader to think about how philosophy has positioned itself with respect to two mathematical extremes: the void ...
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... concept at odds with rational modernity's most cherished reassurances, those of a continuous and law- abiding world of enduring substance and value. Across the range of its semantic registers the event figures as a remainder, a ...
... concept at odds with rational modernity's most cherished reassurances, those of a continuous and law- abiding world of enduring substance and value. Across the range of its semantic registers the event figures as a remainder, a ...
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Contents
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14 | |
29 | |
45 | |
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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