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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... Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism (with Jules Townshend [Sage, 2006]), as well as numerous articles and chapters about radical political theory. Caroline Williams is Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of ...
... Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism (with Jules Townshend [Sage, 2006]), as well as numerous articles and chapters about radical political theory. Caroline Williams is Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of ...
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... thinker or pair of thinkers, a chapter offers some biographical and intellectual contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, outlines some major angles of criticism, indicates areas and ways in which the theories have been ...
... thinker or pair of thinkers, a chapter offers some biographical and intellectual contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, outlines some major angles of criticism, indicates areas and ways in which the theories have been ...
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... thinkers included there constituted what had by the end of the 1980s become a 'critical canon' established by the first generations of Anglophone academics to disseminate the mostly imported ideas of critical theory. I also argued that ...
... thinkers included there constituted what had by the end of the 1980s become a 'critical canon' established by the first generations of Anglophone academics to disseminate the mostly imported ideas of critical theory. I also argued that ...
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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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Jon Simons. tendency among this collection of thinkers is to draw consciously on the precursors to the wave of theorists who were to be labelled as post-structuralists and postmodernists. Such a tendency is indicated by Žižek's Hegelian ...
Jon Simons. tendency among this collection of thinkers is to draw consciously on the precursors to the wave of theorists who were to be labelled as post-structuralists and postmodernists. Such a tendency is indicated by Žižek's Hegelian ...
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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