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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... meaning of language and its place in the history of metaphysics, as a way of understanding being. The starting point is the absolute role of negativity in creating the human. Hegel systematically conceived of humanity in relation to ...
... meaning of language and its place in the history of metaphysics, as a way of understanding being. The starting point is the absolute role of negativity in creating the human. Hegel systematically conceived of humanity in relation to ...
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... meaning is irrelevant, rather, it is 'the opening of the ontological dimension'.8 In other words, language's workings, in communicating specific meanings, act to cover up the true meaning, which is nothing, but a nothing which holds the ...
... meaning is irrelevant, rather, it is 'the opening of the ontological dimension'.8 In other words, language's workings, in communicating specific meanings, act to cover up the true meaning, which is nothing, but a nothing which holds the ...
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... meaning of 'messianic time'. Messianic time is neither only about waiting for the future nor about redemption. It is not even a deconstructive awaiting of something 'to- come'. He who announces or believes in the future messiah inhabits ...
... meaning of 'messianic time'. Messianic time is neither only about waiting for the future nor about redemption. It is not even a deconstructive awaiting of something 'to- come'. He who announces or believes in the future messiah inhabits ...
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... simply names a void of meaning – all content is utterly subtracted. From that void, however, set theory is able to group together multiplicities based on minimal axioms and to develop all one needs for 37 Alain Badiou (1937–)
... simply names a void of meaning – all content is utterly subtracted. From that void, however, set theory is able to group together multiplicities based on minimal axioms and to develop all one needs for 37 Alain Badiou (1937–)
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Contents
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14 | |
29 | |
45 | |
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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