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 Thought, 4 vols (Sage, 2002), The Bauman Reader (Blackwell, 2001) and Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (Sage, 2000), and is collecting his essays on Bauman for a separate volume. Arianna Bove currently teaches at Queen ...
... Social Thought, 4 vols (Sage, 2002), The Bauman Reader (Blackwell, 2001) and Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (Sage, 2000), and is collecting his essays on Bauman for a separate volume. Arianna Bove currently teaches at Queen ...
Page ix
... Social Analysis and other journals. Her book, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media (Cornell, 2010), deploys ... social science with a PhD in psychology from London University. For the past three decades he has taught critical ...
... Social Analysis and other journals. Her book, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media (Cornell, 2010), deploys ... social science with a PhD in psychology from London University. For the past three decades he has taught critical ...
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... Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney. He is the author of Making Sense of Tyranny: Interpretations of Totalitarianism (Manchester University Press, 1995), Politics at the Edge (co-edited with C. Pierson [Macmillan, 1999]) ...
... Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney. He is the author of Making Sense of Tyranny: Interpretations of Totalitarianism (Manchester University Press, 1995), Politics at the Edge (co-edited with C. Pierson [Macmillan, 1999]) ...
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... social sciences began to be adopted on the margins of established disciplinary methodologies. The labels of postmodernism and poststructuralism became the most common, though reductive if not downright inaccurate, handles with which ...
... social sciences began to be adopted on the margins of established disciplinary methodologies. The labels of postmodernism and poststructuralism became the most common, though reductive if not downright inaccurate, handles with which ...
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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.
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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