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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... ideology critique of all varieties, 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 ...
... ideology critique of all varieties, 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 ...
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... Rancière 1998 Disagreement Spivak 1988 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' Virilio 2002 Desert Screen Žižek 1989 The Sublime Object of Ideology previous theorists. While the innovation of Laclau's and Mouffe's post-Marxism 4 Jon Simons.
... Rancière 1998 Disagreement Spivak 1988 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' Virilio 2002 Desert Screen Žižek 1989 The Sublime Object of Ideology previous theorists. While the innovation of Laclau's and Mouffe's post-Marxism 4 Jon Simons.
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... ideological critique of 'prematurely naturalized objectified facts'.9 As indicated above, the theorists included in this volume are less marked by the linguistic turn, one consequence of which may be that the latest wave of theory may ...
... ideological critique of 'prematurely naturalized objectified facts'.9 As indicated above, the theorists included in this volume are less marked by the linguistic turn, one consequence of which may be that the latest wave of theory may ...
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... ideology' of professionalism, as part of their effort to 'legitimate theory' within 'the university system', even as critical theory has thrived because of its 'distance from capital'.17 But critical reflection has itself become a ...
... ideology' of professionalism, as part of their effort to 'legitimate theory' within 'the university system', even as critical theory has thrived because of its 'distance from capital'.17 But critical reflection has itself become a ...
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... ideologies of human value. Humanity is defined by the possibility of not having language. Following Hegel, Agamben writes that 'the definitive annihilation of man in the proper sense, however, must also entail the disappearance of human ...
... ideologies of human value. Humanity is defined by the possibility of not having language. Following Hegel, Agamben writes that 'the definitive annihilation of man in the proper sense, however, must also entail the disappearance of human ...
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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