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 1
... discourse analysis, structuralism and post- structuralism, ideology critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School ...
... discourse analysis, structuralism and post- structuralism, ideology critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School ...
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... discourse. In so doing, language becomes a way of knowing the world that is other to the subject, and then the means of self- consciousness: 'if language were immediately the voice of man [as it is for animals] ... he could never ...
... discourse. In so doing, language becomes a way of knowing the world that is other to the subject, and then the means of self- consciousness: 'if language were immediately the voice of man [as it is for animals] ... he could never ...
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... discourse; it is 'no longer the experience of sound, and not yet the experience of meaning'. Agamben is continually fascinated by this 'thought of the voice alone'.10 Having started with Heidegger, Agamben now thinks himself beyond, and ...
... discourse; it is 'no longer the experience of sound, and not yet the experience of meaning'. Agamben is continually fascinated by this 'thought of the voice alone'.10 Having started with Heidegger, Agamben now thinks himself beyond, and ...
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... 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 (or empty set) ...
... 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 (or empty set) ...
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... discourse of being shows how impersonal, general and universal his founding terms are. Set theory founds mathematics on empty sets. That does not mean that foundations are arbitrary – it means that they are without predetermined quality ...
... discourse of being shows how impersonal, general and universal his founding terms are. Set theory founds mathematics on empty sets. That does not mean that foundations are arbitrary – it means that they are without predetermined quality ...
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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