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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... Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics (Sage, 2005), Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics (Polity, 2007); and (with Adrian Little) The Politics of Radical Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). She is currently working ...
... Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics (Sage, 2005), Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics (Polity, 2007); and (with Adrian Little) The Politics of Radical Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). She is currently working ...
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... identities and migrant experiences of the post-colonial present; Butler to theorise the oppression of the 'heterosexual matrix' and the resistance to it in queer performativity; Castoriadis to theorise the role of radical imagination in ...
... identities and migrant experiences of the post-colonial present; Butler to theorise the oppression of the 'heterosexual matrix' and the resistance to it in queer performativity; Castoriadis to theorise the role of radical imagination in ...
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... 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 an other – whether in the ...
... 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 an other – whether in the ...
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... identity politics and a textual-hermeneutical grounding of existence. Even stylistically, Badiou tends to be indifferent to cultivating the character of his prose. He writes precisely and didactically, with an irreverent, even ...
... identity politics and a textual-hermeneutical grounding of existence. Even stylistically, Badiou tends to be indifferent to cultivating the character of his prose. He writes precisely and didactically, with an irreverent, even ...
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... identities, who directs hostility against everyone, against everyone precisely as generic nobodies outside the community of the elect. While the event forces an accounting, dictating what is relevant to its break and what is not, it ...
... identities, who directs hostility against everyone, against everyone precisely as generic nobodies outside the community of the elect. While the event forces an accounting, dictating what is relevant to its break and what is not, it ...
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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