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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... social science and environmental philosophy in Britain and the USA, and is currently at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics ix Notes on Contributors.
... social science and environmental philosophy in Britain and the USA, and is currently at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics ix Notes on Contributors.
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Jon Simons. author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2001). Moya Lloyd is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University. She has published widely in the areas of ...
Jon Simons. author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2001). Moya Lloyd is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University. She has published widely in the areas of ...
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... 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.
... 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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Jon Simons. scientific understanding of the creativity of nature, as well as by critiquing the pseudo-scientific nature of structuralism. Negri's reference to Spinoza's ontology similarly posits a world of lively matter. This empiricist ...
Jon Simons. scientific understanding of the creativity of nature, as well as by critiquing the pseudo-scientific nature of structuralism. Negri's reference to Spinoza's ontology similarly posits a world of lively matter. This empiricist ...
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... nature, which means that it cannot be identified by any 'common object or shared language'.10 Critical theory is often deployed as a critique of traditional disciplines, whether literary study in the humanistic tradition for which, as ...
... nature, which means that it cannot be identified by any 'common object or shared language'.10 Critical theory is often deployed as a critique of traditional disciplines, whether literary study in the humanistic tradition for which, as ...
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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