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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Page viii
... Cultural Politics and the editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Sage, 2001), Virilio Live: Selected Interviews (Sage, 2001) and, with Joanne Roberts, the co- editor of Living With Cyberspace: Technology ...
... Cultural Politics and the editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Sage, 2001), Virilio Live: Selected Interviews (Sage, 2001) and, with Joanne Roberts, the co- editor of Living With Cyberspace: Technology ...
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... cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2001. An assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, she writes and teaches about disconnections using new media, the anthropology of ...
... cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2001. An assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, she writes and teaches about disconnections using new media, the anthropology of ...
Page x
... cultural geography, domestic space and queer, feminist and critical theory. Her work has been published in Liminalities, Women's Studies in Communication, and edited volumes in the field of rhetorical studies. Stephen Morton is a senior ...
... cultural geography, domestic space and queer, feminist and critical theory. Her work has been published in Liminalities, Women's Studies in Communication, and edited volumes in the field of rhetorical studies. Stephen Morton is a senior ...
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... cultural themes became dramatically disproportionate to the scale of daily life. For the last several years, Robinson has been actively engaged with Alain Badiou's philosophy, organising several multi- day conferences on his work, one ...
... cultural themes became dramatically disproportionate to the scale of daily life. For the last several years, Robinson has been actively engaged with Alain Badiou's philosophy, organising several multi- day conferences on his work, one ...
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... cultural theory, literary theory, continental philosophy, or some other variation. The book will also be useful for students who find that across a variety of classes they are reading work by theorists included in the volume. The ...
... cultural theory, literary theory, continental philosophy, or some other variation. The book will also be useful for students who find that across a variety of classes they are reading work by theorists included in the volume. 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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