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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... Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Polity, 2006) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Routledge, 2003); as well as articles in Textual Practice, Public Culture, New Formations, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory and Interventions ...
... Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Polity, 2006) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Routledge, 2003); as well as articles in Textual Practice, Public Culture, New Formations, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory and Interventions ...
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... Critique: Thinking the Political in the Wake of Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen introductory ...
... Critique: Thinking the Political in the Wake of Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen introductory ...
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... critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the ...
... critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the ...
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... critique that laid the way for the subsequent Francophone predominance in critical theory. As the new theorists build on and replenish the work of their predecessors, an understanding of the theoretical canon is necessary when dealing ...
... critique that laid the way for the subsequent Francophone predominance in critical theory. As the new theorists build on and replenish the work of their predecessors, an understanding of the theoretical canon is necessary when dealing ...
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... critique, remodelled to fit 'liquid modernity' rather than 'postmodernity'. Castoriadis had no truck with his more fashionable contemporaries, finding his inspiration for a Marxist politics in Freudian rather than Lacanian ...
... critique, remodelled to fit 'liquid modernity' rather than 'postmodernity'. Castoriadis had no truck with his more fashionable contemporaries, finding his inspiration for a Marxist politics in Freudian rather than Lacanian ...
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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