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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... Politics and the editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Sage, 2001), Virilio Live ... political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and sexuality. He is the author of ...
... Politics and the editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Sage, 2001), Virilio Live ... political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and sexuality. He is the author of ...
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... Politics of Television (IB Tauris, 2009) and coauthor, with Terrell Carver, of Judith Butler and Political Theory (Routledge, 2008). He is also co- editor, with Terrell Carver, of William Connolly: Democracy, Pluralism and Political ...
... Politics of Television (IB Tauris, 2009) and coauthor, with Terrell Carver, of Judith Butler and Political Theory (Routledge, 2008). He is also co- editor, with Terrell Carver, of William Connolly: Democracy, Pluralism and Political ...
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... Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2001). Moya Lloyd is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University. She has published widely in the areas of contemporary political theory and feminist theory, focusing in particular on ...
... Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2001). Moya Lloyd is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University. She has published widely in the areas of contemporary political theory and feminist theory, focusing in particular on ...
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... Political Studies, Deakin University. He is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate, 2004), and coauthor of Žižek and Politics (Edinburgh, 2010), Understanding Psychoanalysis (Acumen, 2007) and The Times Will ...
... Political Studies, Deakin University. He is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate, 2004), and coauthor of Žižek and Politics (Edinburgh, 2010), Understanding Psychoanalysis (Acumen, 2007) and The Times Will ...
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... Political Critique: Thinking the Political in the Wake of Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen ...
... Political Critique: Thinking the Political in the Wake of Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen ...
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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