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 6
... contrast to the seeming anthropocentrism of social constructionism. Castoriadis finds his way back to the radical agency of the human subject through a scientific understanding of the creativity of nature, as well as 6 Jon Simons.
... contrast to the seeming anthropocentrism of social constructionism. Castoriadis finds his way back to the radical agency of the human subject through a scientific understanding of the creativity of nature, as well as 6 Jon Simons.
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... human world, society, culture, media and the arts, can best be understood and critiqued in the mode of reading a text. The critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively ...
... human world, society, culture, media and the arts, can best be understood and critiqued in the mode of reading a text. The critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively ...
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... humanity closer to universal freedom; Bauman to theorise the plight of 'surplus populations' such as refugees in global, 'liquid modernity'; Bhabha to theorise the extension of the colonial past in the hybrid identities and migrant ...
... humanity closer to universal freedom; Bauman to theorise the plight of 'surplus populations' such as refugees in global, 'liquid modernity'; Bhabha to theorise the extension of the colonial past in the hybrid identities and migrant ...
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... humanity can be attained through a study of language, Agamben's early writings focus directly on language and its ... human – investigated in nearly all of his work since the mid 1990s, but culminating (philosophically) in Homo Sacer ...
... humanity can be attained through a study of language, Agamben's early writings focus directly on language and its ... human – investigated in nearly all of his work since the mid 1990s, but culminating (philosophically) in Homo Sacer ...
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... human is at stake. His popularity cannot be credited to the accessibility of his writing but to his concern for the larger questions of human life that many theorists seemed to have left behind (at least in Agamben's view). Coming to ...
... human is at stake. His popularity cannot be credited to the accessibility of his writing but to his concern for the larger questions of human life that many theorists seemed to have left behind (at least in Agamben's view). Coming to ...
Contents
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14 | |
2 Alain Badiou 1937 | 29 |
3 Zygmunt Bauman 1925 | 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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