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 11
... existence as embodied creatures within our environment; Haraway to theorise the relation between techno- scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and environmental destruction; Laclau and Mouffe to theorise ...
... existence as embodied creatures within our environment; Haraway to theorise the relation between techno- scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and environmental destruction; Laclau and Mouffe to theorise ...
Page 15
... existence and knowledge, and yet is the profound truth of humanity. Agamben claims in Infancy and History that the transcendental is located not beyond, but in, language. To back up this point, he returns to the question of speech as a ...
... existence and knowledge, and yet is the profound truth of humanity. Agamben claims in Infancy and History that the transcendental is located not beyond, but in, language. To back up this point, he returns to the question of speech as a ...
Page 16
... existence occurs only in awareness of death, of death as something that will come, and yet, 'I' will not be there when it happens to me. So, the most authentic human experience possible is one of absence. Both Heidegger and Agamben ...
... existence occurs only in awareness of death, of death as something that will come, and yet, 'I' will not be there when it happens to me. So, the most authentic human experience possible is one of absence. Both Heidegger and Agamben ...
Page 18
... existence. In a way that is logically consistent, yet somehow detached, the closing few pages of Language and Death announce his future interests directly. In a way that recalls Levinas, Agamben suggests that this core of nothingness ...
... existence. In a way that is logically consistent, yet somehow detached, the closing few pages of Language and Death announce his future interests directly. In a way that recalls Levinas, Agamben suggests that this core of nothingness ...
Page 19
... existence and so on, with the complaint that today's world is vacuous, lost in noise and superficiality (a position Agamben has held since his early writings). The conclusion is that to think the human/animal border through language is ...
... existence and so on, with the complaint that today's world is vacuous, lost in noise and superficiality (a position Agamben has held since his early writings). The conclusion is that to think the human/animal border through language is ...
Contents
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14 | |
29 | |
45 | |
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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