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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... ideas that is good enough as a basis for further study. For each thinker or pair of thinkers, a chapter offers some biographical and intellectual contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, outlines some major angles of ...
... ideas that is good enough as a basis for further study. For each thinker or pair of thinkers, a chapter offers some biographical and intellectual contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, outlines some major angles of ...
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... ideas of critical theory. I also argued that the explosion of critical theories by the 1980s had both its significant precursors and successors. The first volume in this trilogy, From Kant to Lévi- Strauss, was dedicated to the former ...
... ideas of critical theory. I also argued that the explosion of critical theories by the 1980s had both its significant precursors and successors. The first volume in this trilogy, From Kant to Lévi- Strauss, was dedicated to the former ...
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... ideas with 'a last, brilliant efflorescence when the conditions which produced them were already disappearing'.14 Bové similarly suggests that the radical political atmosphere of the 1960s granted radical intellectuals and theory 'a ...
... ideas with 'a last, brilliant efflorescence when the conditions which produced them were already disappearing'.14 Bové similarly suggests that the radical political atmosphere of the 1960s granted radical intellectuals and theory 'a ...
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... idea of being defined by what you are not (that is, I am me because I understand I am not you, or anyone else).4 This is the only means through which humans come to self- perception. The profound implication of this, as teased out by ...
... idea of being defined by what you are not (that is, I am me because I understand I am not you, or anyone else).4 This is the only means through which humans come to self- perception. The profound implication of this, as teased out by ...
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... ideas that inform the later texts on sovereignty and limit conditions. This time, Agamben works more explicitly with Heidegger, using the model of 'beingfor- death' to be found in the latter's Being and Time. Heidegger's argument is ...
... ideas that inform the later texts on sovereignty and limit conditions. This time, Agamben works more explicitly with Heidegger, using the model of 'beingfor- death' to be found in the latter's Being and Time. Heidegger's argument is ...
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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