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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... global environmental crises grew, yet had already developed its key insights. There are also theorists included in this volume, most notably Agamben, Badiou, Negri and Rancière, who had published significant work before 1990 but which ...
... global environmental crises grew, yet had already developed its key insights. There are also theorists included in this volume, most notably Agamben, Badiou, Negri and Rancière, who had published significant work before 1990 but which ...
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... global capitalism.12 Martin McQuillan and his colleagues assert that 'Theory wants more than anything to be thought of as “Radical”', not only in relation to academic disciplines within which they are embattled but also in the world, as ...
... global capitalism.12 Martin McQuillan and his colleagues assert that 'Theory wants more than anything to be thought of as “Radical”', not only in relation to academic disciplines within which they are embattled but also in the world, as ...
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... global, 'liquid modernity'; Bhabha to theorise the extension of the colonial past in the hybrid identities and migrant experiences of the post- colonial present; Butler to theorise the oppression of the 'heterosexual matrix' and the ...
... global, 'liquid modernity'; Bhabha to theorise the extension of the colonial past in the hybrid identities and migrant experiences of the post- colonial present; Butler to theorise the oppression of the 'heterosexual matrix' and the ...
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... global capitalism and the autonomy of 'living labour' that struggles to transform it; Rancière to theorise the radical democratic politics of attending to those who do not count in the 'police' ordering of who can be heard and seen ...
... global capitalism and the autonomy of 'living labour' that struggles to transform it; Rancière to theorise the radical democratic politics of attending to those who do not count in the 'police' ordering of who can be heard and seen ...
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... global ecologies, all seem to confirm the end of Plato's regime of mathematically revealed truth. As close as Badiou is to that tradition that goes under the name of reversing Plato in favour of the contingent, material, aesthetic and ...
... global ecologies, all seem to confirm the end of Plato's regime of mathematically revealed truth. As close as Badiou is to that tradition that goes under the name of reversing Plato in favour of the contingent, material, aesthetic and ...
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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