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 vii
... writing their chapters and for their comments on my introduction. Peter Andrews has prepared an excellent index for this volume, as he did for the previous volumes. Jackie Jones of Edinburgh University Press has been a wonderfully ...
... writing their chapters and for their comments on my introduction. Peter Andrews has prepared an excellent index for this volume, as he did for the previous volumes. Jackie Jones of Edinburgh University Press has been a wonderfully ...
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... writing became known beyond science studies, while Bauman's post- retirement shift to a less academic style might explain his more widespread influence by the 1990s. Green theory, which cannot sensibly be reduced to a 'star' theorist ...
... writing became known beyond science studies, while Bauman's post- retirement shift to a less academic style might explain his more widespread influence by the 1990s. Green theory, which cannot sensibly be reduced to a 'star' theorist ...
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... writing mostly with critical literary theory in mind as does Eagleton, also remarks that the 'oppositional possibilities' of the critical theory movements from roughly 1964 to 1984 'have been exhausted'.6 Bruno Latour argues that the ...
... writing mostly with critical literary theory in mind as does Eagleton, also remarks that the 'oppositional possibilities' of the critical theory movements from roughly 1964 to 1984 'have been exhausted'.6 Bruno Latour argues that the ...
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... writing but to his concern for the larger questions of human life that many theorists seemed to have left behind (at least in Agamben's view). Coming to Language In his early books, Agamben probes the meaning of language and its place ...
... writing but to his concern for the larger questions of human life that many theorists seemed to have left behind (at least in Agamben's view). Coming to Language In his early books, Agamben probes the meaning of language and its place ...
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... writers like Buffon, or of the early evolutionists, let alone attempt a contemporary assessment of the question. Despite this, he makes virtually timeless claims about the human/ animal divide (timeless insofar as it applies to all ...
... writers like Buffon, or of the early evolutionists, let alone attempt a contemporary assessment of the question. Despite this, he makes virtually timeless claims about the human/ animal divide (timeless insofar as it applies to all ...
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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