From Agamben to ZizekEdinburgh 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. |
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... contexts need to be borne in mind simultaneously, the immediate institutional academic one and the more general political, social context in which universities exist.13 The radicality of critical theory, which is one measure of its ...
... contexts need to be borne in mind simultaneously, the immediate institutional academic one and the more general political, social context in which universities exist.13 The radicality of critical theory, which is one measure of its ...
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... contexts. Even 'humanitarian organizations . . . can only grasp human life in the figure of bare or sacred life, and therefore, despite themselves, maintain a secret solidarity with the very powers they ought to fight'.23 For Agamben ...
... contexts. Even 'humanitarian organizations . . . can only grasp human life in the figure of bare or sacred life, and therefore, despite themselves, maintain a secret solidarity with the very powers they ought to fight'.23 For Agamben ...
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... 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 permanent condition, a return ...
... 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 permanent condition, a return ...
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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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