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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... theoretical approaches to different branches of the humanities and social sciences began to be adopted on the margins of established disciplinary methodologies. The labels of postmodernism and poststructuralism became the most common ...
... theoretical approaches to different branches of the humanities and social sciences began to be adopted on the margins of established disciplinary methodologies. The labels of postmodernism and poststructuralism became the most common ...
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... theoretical' intellectual environment. The Scope of this Volume The range of theorists included in this volume has been shaped to a very large extent by the two volumes about critical theory that have preceded it. The prior volume, From ...
... theoretical' intellectual environment. The Scope of this Volume The range of theorists included in this volume has been shaped to a very large extent by the two volumes about critical theory that have preceded it. The prior volume, From ...
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... theoretical canon is necessary when dealing with the most contemporary theory. The thinkers covered in this volume are those who had established significant trans- disciplinary reputations in the Anglophone world since about 1990 ...
... theoretical canon is necessary when dealing with the most contemporary theory. The thinkers covered in this volume are those who had established significant trans- disciplinary reputations in the Anglophone world since about 1990 ...
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... theoretical tools. Badiou relies on mathematical set theory in his quest for axiomatic and universal philosophical truth. Green theorists adopt a critical realist position about the environment in contrast to the seeming ...
... theoretical tools. Badiou relies on mathematical set theory in his quest for axiomatic and universal philosophical truth. Green theorists adopt a critical realist position about the environment in contrast to the seeming ...
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... seem to have declined, which is that it is no longer a 'distinctive object', remarkable in its own right, but that the 'post- theoretical age' is characterised as 'a process of mutual contamination between “theory” 8 Jon Simons.
... seem to have declined, which is that it is no longer a 'distinctive object', remarkable in its own right, but that the 'post- theoretical age' is characterised as 'a process of mutual contamination between “theory” 8 Jon Simons.
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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