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 7
... ontology similarly posits a world of lively matter. This empiricist and even scientific tendency among these critical theorists indicates something of a waning of the 'linguistic turn', as Richard Rorty put it,3 that informed the work ...
... ontology similarly posits a world of lively matter. This empiricist and even scientific tendency among these critical theorists indicates something of a waning of the 'linguistic turn', as Richard Rorty put it,3 that informed the work ...
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... 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 rest together, and continually brings it into being, as ...
... 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 rest together, and continually brings it into being, as ...
Page 29
... ontology can be intimidating in its straightforward application to the familiar topics of politics and ethics. The philosophical habitus, however, is just what Badiou's simultaneously refined and populist turn of thought succeeds in ...
... ontology can be intimidating in its straightforward application to the familiar topics of politics and ethics. The philosophical habitus, however, is just what Badiou's simultaneously refined and populist turn of thought succeeds in ...
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... 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) and the infinite. These are indeed ...
... 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) and the infinite. These are indeed ...
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... ontology – arises by marshalling order from blank 'thatness' with but a few axioms. This literal creatio ex nihilo allows us to see how permeable the order of the world is, based as it is not on immutable essences but on axiomatic ...
... ontology – arises by marshalling order from blank 'thatness' with but a few axioms. This literal creatio ex nihilo allows us to see how permeable the order of the world is, based as it is not on immutable essences but on axiomatic ...
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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