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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Page 1
... deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the appropriation and ...
... deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the appropriation and ...
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... deconstruction, psychoanalysis and Marxism in their groundbreaking work in postcolonial theory. Butler built on a blend of 'French feminism', psychoanalysis, Foucault and deconstruction to forge a bold direction for queer theory. By ...
... deconstruction, psychoanalysis and Marxism in their groundbreaking work in postcolonial theory. Butler built on a blend of 'French feminism', psychoanalysis, Foucault and deconstruction to forge a bold direction for queer theory. By ...
Page 6
... deconstructing binaries, as well as a background in empirical research. Rancière forges his path in political and aesthetic criticism by working with historical archives and pitting himself against Althusser's scientific Marxism and ...
... deconstructing binaries, as well as a background in empirical research. Rancière forges his path in political and aesthetic criticism by working with historical archives and pitting himself against Althusser's scientific Marxism and ...
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... deconstructive (without explicitly following Derrida); it is persistently critical at categorical and political levels; it envisages and presents itself as an avant-gardist approach, always seeking to 'move beyond', even if this turns ...
... deconstructive (without explicitly following Derrida); it is persistently critical at categorical and political levels; it envisages and presents itself as an avant-gardist approach, always seeking to 'move beyond', even if this turns ...
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... deconstruct itself, underpinning the rest of the juridical and political order. This potential, as hidden, as essence, of a legal system becomes more acute in democratic parliamentary situations. The exception spreads as legislatures ...
... deconstruct itself, underpinning the rest of the juridical and political order. This potential, as hidden, as essence, of a legal system becomes more acute in democratic parliamentary situations. The exception spreads as legislatures ...
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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