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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... regime, in which the camps were the most extreme element, turned the 'state of exception' where the normal legal system is suspended into a permanent condition, a return to the pure sovereignty of the state of nature, which can always ...
... regime, in which the camps were the most extreme element, turned the 'state of exception' where the normal legal system is suspended into a permanent condition, a return to the pure sovereignty of the state of nature, which can always ...
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... regime of mathematically revealed truth. As close as Badiou is to that tradition that goes under the name of reversing Plato in favour of the contingent, material, aesthetic and historical, he embraces Plato as the very philosopher who ...
... regime of mathematically revealed truth. As close as Badiou is to that tradition that goes under the name of reversing Plato in favour of the contingent, material, aesthetic and historical, he embraces Plato as the very philosopher who ...
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... regime, so he and his family were harassed and then shown the door, the final exit of the one way visa out of Warsaw via Jerusalem. He had been out before, in moments of authorised scholarly pursuit, not least in the late fifties, when ...
... regime, so he and his family were harassed and then shown the door, the final exit of the one way visa out of Warsaw via Jerusalem. He had been out before, in moments of authorised scholarly pursuit, not least in the late fifties, when ...
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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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