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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... theory that have preceded it. The prior volume, From Lacan to Said, covered contemporary theorists who had established significant trans- disciplinary reputations in the Anglophone world by 1990, most of whom 2 Jon Simons.
... theory that have preceded it. The prior volume, From Lacan to Said, covered contemporary theorists who had established significant trans- disciplinary reputations in the Anglophone world by 1990, most of whom 2 Jon Simons.
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... trans- disciplinary reputations in the Anglophone world since about 1990, though they are likely to have been well known in some circles before then. There is no clear dividing line between this volume and its predecessor. Table 1.1 ...
... trans- disciplinary reputations in the Anglophone world since about 1990, though they are likely to have been well known in some circles before then. There is no clear dividing line between this volume and its predecessor. Table 1.1 ...
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... trans- disciplinary impact. Without chapters on figures such as Axel Honneth or Seyla Benhabib, it might seem mistakenly as if the postFrankfurt School work of Habermas has run its course. And perhaps it is only a matter of time before ...
... trans- disciplinary impact. Without chapters on figures such as Axel Honneth or Seyla Benhabib, it might seem mistakenly as if the postFrankfurt School work of Habermas has run its course. And perhaps it is only a matter of time before ...
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... trans- disciplinary nature, which means that it cannot be identified by any 'common object or shared language'.10 Critical theory is often deployed as a critique of traditional disciplines, whether literary study in the humanistic ...
... trans- disciplinary nature, which means that it cannot be identified by any 'common object or shared language'.10 Critical theory is often deployed as a critique of traditional disciplines, whether literary study in the humanistic ...
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... trans. Robert Hurley (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979). 18. Agamben, Homo Sacer, p. 8. 19. Ibid. p. 89. 20. Ibid. p. 82 ... trans. Daniel Heller- Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998 [1995]). Idea of Prose, trans. Michael ...
... trans. Robert Hurley (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979). 18. Agamben, Homo Sacer, p. 8. 19. Ibid. p. 89. 20. Ibid. p. 82 ... trans. Daniel Heller- Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998 [1995]). Idea of Prose, trans. Michael ...
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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