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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... particular on the work of Judith Butler. Her most recent books include Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics (Sage, 2005), Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics (Polity, 2007); and (with Adrian Little) The Politics of ...
... particular on the work of Judith Butler. Her most recent books include Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics (Sage, 2005), Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics (Polity, 2007); and (with Adrian Little) The Politics of ...
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... particular area of critical theory. These theorists travel across disciplinary boundaries, their work being useful within a wide variety of disciplines as well as in the interdisciplinary work of say, African- American Studies and ...
... particular area of critical theory. These theorists travel across disciplinary boundaries, their work being useful within a wide variety of disciplines as well as in the interdisciplinary work of say, African- American Studies and ...
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... particular Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), especially his early formulation of 'negativity' in the 'master/slave dialectic' (pp. 105–19). See also Alexandre Kojève's Introduction to the Reading ...
... particular Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), especially his early formulation of 'negativity' in the 'master/slave dialectic' (pp. 105–19). See also Alexandre Kojève's Introduction to the Reading ...
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... particular, that commitment is evil, as Badiou explicates in his short 1993 treatise on Ethics.11 For evil to exist, according to Badiou, there must be truth, because truth is the process of making an animal into a subject, of ...
... particular, that commitment is evil, as Badiou explicates in his short 1993 treatise on Ethics.11 For evil to exist, according to Badiou, there must be truth, because truth is the process of making an animal into a subject, of ...
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... particular, including in the particular persons who bear the universal message. It is accordingly driven to extirpate everything that exists because to exist is to exist as one, as particular. For Hegel, hostility to animal ...
... particular, including in the particular persons who bear the universal message. It is accordingly driven to extirpate everything that exists because to exist is to exist as one, as particular. For Hegel, hostility to animal ...
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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