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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... Postmodern Conservatism in Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2007). He has also authored numerous articles on political philosophy, critical theory and psychoanalysis. Presently, he is working on a new book, Jacques Lacan and Leo Strauss: The ...
... Postmodern Conservatism in Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2007). He has also authored numerous articles on political philosophy, critical theory and psychoanalysis. Presently, he is working on a new book, Jacques Lacan and Leo Strauss: The ...
Page 1
... postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the appropriation and integration of both Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the various streams of ...
... postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the appropriation and integration of both Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the various streams of ...
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... postmodernism, while Bauman works above all to renew the ethos of Marxist critique, remodelled to fit 'liquid modernity' rather than 'postmodernity'. Castoriadis had no truck with his more fashionable contemporaries, finding his ...
... postmodernism, while Bauman works above all to renew the ethos of Marxist critique, remodelled to fit 'liquid modernity' rather than 'postmodernity'. Castoriadis had no truck with his more fashionable contemporaries, finding his ...
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... postmodern celebration of irony and consumption, multicultural 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 ...
... postmodern celebration of irony and consumption, multicultural 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 ...
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... books, published in at least thirty languages, and covering an extraordinary array of interests,. 3. from utopia to hermeneutics, culture to mortality, postmodernity, intellectuals, violence, 45 3 Zygmunt Bauman (1925–)
... books, published in at least thirty languages, and covering an extraordinary array of interests,. 3. from utopia to hermeneutics, culture to mortality, postmodernity, intellectuals, violence, 45 3 Zygmunt Bauman (1925–)
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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