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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... written about in this volume cannot be considered as some sort of 'Theory 2.0' in relation to those who were already well established by 1990. One tendency among this collection of thinkers is to draw consciously 5 Introduction.
... written about in this volume cannot be considered as some sort of 'Theory 2.0' in relation to those who were already well established by 1990. One tendency among this collection of thinkers is to draw consciously 5 Introduction.
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... relation to academic disciplines within which they are embattled but also in the world, as praxis. And while 'the radicality of political praxis and the radicality of Theory might not be of the same order', at least two contexts need to ...
... relation to academic disciplines within which they are embattled but also in the world, as praxis. And while 'the radicality of political praxis and the radicality of Theory might not be of the same order', at least two contexts need to ...
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... relation between techno-scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and environmental destruction; Laclau and Mouffe to theorise the radical democratic alternative to the prevailing liberal capitalist hegemony ...
... relation between techno-scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and environmental destruction; Laclau and Mouffe to theorise the radical democratic alternative to the prevailing liberal capitalist hegemony ...
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... relation to negativity, in the early nineteenth century. Negativity in this sense is not 'bad', but the idea of being defined by what you are not (that is, I am me because I understand I am not you, or anyone else).4 This is the only ...
... relation to negativity, in the early nineteenth century. Negativity in this sense is not 'bad', but the idea of being defined by what you are not (that is, I am me because I understand I am not you, or anyone else).4 This is the only ...
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... relation to that bare life in an inclusive exclusion'.18 Bare life is empty humanity that is neither quite human nor animal, an intermediate state that, even as it appears, is shoved into the background to be made part of a society ...
... relation to that bare life in an inclusive exclusion'.18 Bare life is empty humanity that is neither quite human nor animal, an intermediate state that, even as it appears, is shoved into the background to be made part of a society ...
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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