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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... specific meanings, act to cover up the true meaning, which is nothing, but a nothing which holds the rest together, and continually brings it into being, as an origin that never disappears. This working through of negativity, deriving ...
... specific meanings, act to cover up the true meaning, which is nothing, but a nothing which holds the rest together, and continually brings it into being, as an origin that never disappears. This working through of negativity, deriving ...
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... specific nature or any specific identity [i.e. the situation animals find themselves in] – must experience this poverty more radically'.11 Agamben's recent works maintain his obsession with language, and the argument that language has ...
... specific nature or any specific identity [i.e. the situation animals find themselves in] – must experience this poverty more radically'.11 Agamben's recent works maintain his obsession with language, and the argument that language has ...
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... specific times, politics and contexts that bring out something primordial but social. The Nazi regime, in which the camps were the most extreme element, turned the 'state of exception' where the normal legal system is suspended into a ...
... specific times, politics and contexts that bring out something primordial but social. The Nazi regime, in which the camps were the most extreme element, turned the 'state of exception' where the normal legal system is suspended into a ...
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... specific actions at specific historical moments. Conclusion: The End of All Things In The Time That Remains, we see Agamben's fascination with time as paradoxical, grounded and ungrounding. This is one of his strongest and best- written ...
... specific actions at specific historical moments. Conclusion: The End of All Things In The Time That Remains, we see Agamben's fascination with time as paradoxical, grounded and ungrounding. This is one of his strongest and best- written ...
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Contents
1 | |
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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