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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... Critical Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2002) and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) for their sage advice about which theorists to include in this volume. I take responsibility ...
... Critical Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2002) and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) for their sage advice about which theorists to include in this volume. I take responsibility ...
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. Notes. on. Contributors. John Armitage is Head of the Department of Media at ... theory at Johns Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. Notes. on. Contributors. John Armitage is Head of the Department of Media at ... theory at Johns Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and ...
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... Theory (Routledge, 2008). He is also co- editor, with Terrell Carver, of ... literary theory and World Englishes. He is the author of Homi K. Bhabha ... critical social science and environmental philosophy in Britain and the USA ...
... Theory (Routledge, 2008). He is also co- editor, with Terrell Carver, of ... literary theory and World Englishes. He is the author of Homi K. Bhabha ... critical social science and environmental philosophy in Britain and the USA ...
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2001). Moya Lloyd is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University. She has ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2001). Moya Lloyd is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University. She has ...
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... critical theory and psychoanalysis. Presently, he is working on a new book, Jacques Lacan and Leo Strauss: The Ancient and the Modern. Jon Simons is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana ...
... critical theory and psychoanalysis. Presently, he is working on a new book, Jacques Lacan and Leo Strauss: The Ancient and the Modern. Jon Simons is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana ...
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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