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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... example, is outside and beyond the Law as he is its guarantor. At the same time, he is the concentration of Law. Agamben identifies this situation as the 'exception' – and from which the 'state of exception' can emerge – that is, the ...
... example, is outside and beyond the Law as he is its guarantor. At the same time, he is the concentration of Law. Agamben identifies this situation as the 'exception' – and from which the 'state of exception' can emerge – that is, the ...
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... examples of events from Badiou's work help draw us back into Being and Event. The French Revolution, arguably the inaugural event of modernity, is Badiou's most privileged example.9 There was nothing in France's ancien régime that could ...
... examples of events from Badiou's work help draw us back into Being and Event. The French Revolution, arguably the inaugural event of modernity, is Badiou's most privileged example.9 There was nothing in France's ancien régime that could ...
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... examples of an event is atonal music. In its development from Haydn through Beethoven and up to Schönberg, classical music rigorously explored the possibilities of tonality to the point where, at least conceptually, only more- or- less ...
... examples of an event is atonal music. In its development from Haydn through Beethoven and up to Schönberg, classical music rigorously explored the possibilities of tonality to the point where, at least conceptually, only more- or- less ...
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... example given by Peter Hallward is the set of letters in the alphabet.14 While twenty- six is easy to count, when one considers arrangements of subsets, there are 226 unrepeating arrangements. If one allows for combinations that repeat ...
... example given by Peter Hallward is the set of letters in the alphabet.14 While twenty- six is easy to count, when one considers arrangements of subsets, there are 226 unrepeating arrangements. If one allows for combinations that repeat ...
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... example of Haydn appears in Badiou, Ethics, p. 68. 11. Badiou, Ethics, pp. 58–89. 12. G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), §§582–95. 13. Badiou, Ethics, p. 76. 14 ...
... example of Haydn appears in Badiou, Ethics, p. 68. 11. Badiou, Ethics, pp. 58–89. 12. G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), §§582–95. 13. Badiou, Ethics, p. 76. 14 ...
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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