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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... Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and sexuality. He is the author of Untimely Politics (Edinburgh University Press, viii Notes on Contributors.
... Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and sexuality. He is the author of Untimely Politics (Edinburgh University Press, viii Notes on Contributors.
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... gender and sexuality and a research monograph entitled 'Who Counts?' Joan Faber McAlister is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies in the Department for the Study of Culture and Society at Drake University and ...
... gender and sexuality and a research monograph entitled 'Who Counts?' Joan Faber McAlister is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies in the Department for the Study of Culture and Society at Drake University and ...
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... Gender Trouble Imaginary Institution of Society Latour Negri Rancière Spivak Virilio Žižek 1993 2000 1998 1988 2002 1989 'Manifesto for Cyborgs' Hegemony and Socialist Strategy We Have Never Been Modern Empire Disagreement 'Can the ...
... Gender Trouble Imaginary Institution of Society Latour Negri Rancière Spivak Virilio Žižek 1993 2000 1998 1988 2002 1989 'Manifesto for Cyborgs' Hegemony and Socialist Strategy We Have Never Been Modern Empire Disagreement 'Can the ...
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... , is in an ambiguous position, both inside and outside the academic institution, a position he says was inherited from the origins, genders and sexualities of many 'French' theorists, but can in turn be 10 Jon Simons.
... , is in an ambiguous position, both inside and outside the academic institution, a position he says was inherited from the origins, genders and sexualities of many 'French' theorists, but can in turn be 10 Jon Simons.
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... gender: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, 'Bare Life on Strike: Notes on the Biopolitics of Race and Gender', pp. 89–105. Schmitt, Carl, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwob (Chicago and London ...
... gender: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, 'Bare Life on Strike: Notes on the Biopolitics of Race and Gender', pp. 89–105. Schmitt, Carl, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwob (Chicago and London ...
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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